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LAHORE: Pakistan ‘A’ batter Gull Rukh plays a shot during the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier warm-up against Bangladesh at the Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. Bangladesh won the match by 167 runs.—courtesy PCB LAHORE: Hosts Pakistan take on Ireland in the opening match of the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday. Both the teams look almost equal in strength with 10th and 11th ranking on the ICC table, respectively. West Indies, Bangladesh, Scotland and Thailand are the other participating teams in the event. In head-to-head ODI record, Pakistan have held a clear edge over…

A Walmart Supercenter in Burbank, California, on Nov. 21, 2024.Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesDALLAS — Walmart on Wednesday pulled its outlook for operating income in the first quarter, citing uncertainty about the potential impact of sweeping tariffs on China, Vietnam and other key sources of goods across the globe.In a news release, the discounter said it wants to “maintain flexibility to invest in price as tariffs are implemented.” It did not provide a new range for first-quarter operating income. It had projected an increase of 0.5% to 2.0% in adjusted operating income in the fiscal…

Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2024, attends the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, February 10, 2025. Benoit Tessier | ReutersOn a rare sunny day in London at the Google DeepMind office, Colin Murdoch saw the bank deposit from his employer come through.It wasn’t his paycheck. Google was investing in his startup.The fledgling company was Isomorphic Labs, the secretive artificial intelligence life sciences startup spun out of Google DeepMind after one of the biggest biological breakthroughs in the last 50 years. The check came in November…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Tuesday extended the interim bail of Bushra Bibi, the wife of the PTI founder, in 31 cases linked to the November 26 protests, until April 29. ATC Judge Amjad Ali Shah also extended the interim bails of Azam Swati, Naeem Panjutha, Mishal Yousafzai and Sanam Javed until April 15, while PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja was granted bail extension until April 21 in cases related to the October 5 protests. The court also ordered Bushra Bibi to join the investigation in FIRs registered in Attock, instructing that she be interrogated…

The two retired professional baseball players were among more than 90 people who died when a roof collapsed at a Dominican Republic nightclub.Former major leaguers Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco have died due to injuries suffered in a mass casualty event at a nightclub on Monday night in the Dominican Republic. Dotel was reportedly alive when rescue crews located him and at least seven others from the wreckage of a roof collapse at Jet Set, a popular nighttime destination in Santo Domingo, which killed at least 58 people and injured more than 160, per local authorities. But authorities said on…

Pakistan set Ireland a target of 218 in the opening One-Day International encounter of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 Qualifiers on Wednesday. The six-team ICC event, which includes Bangladesh, Ireland, Scotland, Thailand and West Indies alongside hosts Pakistan, will feature a single-league round-robin format with the matches taking place at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium and LCCA ground from April 9 to 19. The tournament will decide the two qualifiers for the 2025 Women’s World Cup, to be held later this year in India. The hosts were bowled out in the penultimate over of the innings and could not capitalise on…

Air France KLM CEO says company sees demand holding upAir France-KLM CEO Ben Smith said the company currently sees demand holding up, despite tariff uncertainty.”We would like more certainty, more clarity, for sure,” Smith said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “So far, we’re not seeing anything at this point.”The company will report earnings on April 30 and has thus far not lowered its forecasted guidance, Smith added.Airline stocks dipped after Delta said the company won’t expand flying in the second half of the year because of the shifting trade policies.– Laya NeelakandanWalmart withdraws quarterly operating income forecastWalmart pulled its first-quarter operating…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers an important speech at a central conference on work related to neighboring countries in Beijing, capital of China. The conference was held from Tuesday to Wednesday. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for building a community with a shared future with neighboring countries and striving to open new ground for China’s neighborhood work.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military…

Listen to article RAWALPINDI: Close family members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan, along with party activists and supporters, were briefly detained and later released on Tuesday after protesting the denial of their meeting with him at Adiala Jail. Among those detained were Imran’s sister Aleema Khan, his cousin Qasim Niazi, PTI Punjab leader Alia Hamza, and Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) chief Hamid Raza and others. The protesters staged a sit-in during which some PTI activists engaged in stone-pelting. The Adiala Jail administration and Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari rejected the PTI leaders’ claims, calling them outright lies. They said that the…

On April 2, the United States announced it would implement “reciprocal tariffs” on its trading partners, including a 34 percent tariff on China and rates ranging from 10 to 39 percent on Arab countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Iraq. The move triggered widespread discontent both around the world and within the US. The so-called “reciprocal tariffs” are unlikely to achieve the stated goal of “rebalancing trade”. Instead, they risk pushing the US economy – and potentially the global economy – into recession. The imposition of “reciprocal tariffs” by the US poses a serious challenge to the existing international…