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The military declares victory in Khartoum, retaking key positions after months of intense battles against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.The Sudanese army has claimed to have cleared Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters from the capital Khartoum, nearly two years after losing the capital to the paramilitary group. “Our forces today have … forcibly cleansed the last pockets of the remnants of the Daglo terrorist militia in Khartoum locality,” military spokesman Nabil Abdullah said in a statement late on Thursday, using the government’s term for the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, which have been battling the military since April 2023.…
Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., arrives at court in New York, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022.Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton said Thursday that he had been granted a full pardon by President Donald Trump for his October 2022 conviction of federal crimes related to defrauding investors with false claims about the success of the electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker.Milton, 42, was sentenced in December 2023 to four years in prison, but he has been free since then pending an appeal of the former CEO’s criminal conviction on securities and wire fraud charges…
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Bangladeshi interim government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Ding Haitao)BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Bangladeshi interim government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in Beijing on Friday.Noting that the peoples of the two countries have a long-standing history of friendly exchanges, Xi said the two sides have always supported each other and treated each other as equals for win-win cooperation since the establishment of diplomatic ties.China maintains a high degree of stability and continuity in its…
Listen to article HYDERABAD: The nationalist and anti-canal activists have built up pressure on the Pakistan Peoples Party for the withdrawal of its support to the federal government. Responding to the pressure, PPP Sindh president, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that his party’s street protest is the first step towards building pressure on the government. At a press conference in Hyderabad on Thursday Khuhro reiterated that the PPP is being criticised for buttressing PML-N government and its policies. “But, contrarily, the fact is neither we are in the central government nor do we have any federal ministry.” He asserted that the PPP’s…
A forensic expert says the football legend’s seven doctors and nurses made deadly mistakes that ‘any doctor’ would notice.One of two forensic experts who performed Diego Maradona’s autopsy has told a court in Buenos Aires that the Argentinian football legend suffered “agony” for at least 12 hours before he died. The results of the autopsy were made public for the first time on Thursday amid the trial of seven doctors and nurses who treated him at his Buenos Aires home before his death in 2020. The trial started on Tuesday. “The heart was completely covered in fat and blood clots, which…
A logo hangs on the building of the Beijing branch of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) on December 4, 2020 in Beijing, China.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesTaiwan investigators on Friday alleged that Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) illegally recruited high-technology talent.Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MIJB) said in a statement that SMIC had used a Samoa-based entity as cover to set up a subsidiary on the island “under the guise of foreign investment” and has been “actively recruiting” talent from Taiwan.CNBC was unable to independently verify the claims and SMIC was not immediately available…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) former judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui has withdrawn his resignation as the chairman of the National Industrial Relations Commissions (NIRC). Justice (retd) Siddiqui took this decision after a meeting with Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis Secretary Dr Arshad Mahmood. During the meeting, Dr Mahmood lauded Siddiqui’s efforts in expediting pending workers’ cases and ensuring swift justice over the past three months. Acknowledging the NIRC’s key role in resolving workers’ issues, the secretary urged the former IHC judge to continue serving in the position for the welfare of workers. Justice (retd) Siddiqui later agreed to withdraw his…
A Columbia University activist with a green card, a Georgetown University academic with a student visa, a Brown University kidney transplant specialist with a work visa: They are among the people who, despite having legal permission to be in the US, have recently been detained by immigration authorities or denied entry to the US at airports. President Donald Trump has said he supports legal immigration, and administration officials have given assurances that Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportations would focus on people who have committed violent crimes. But some of the highest-profile examples of attempted deportations are people who have legal permission to…
United States President Donald Trump has iterated his ambitions to acquire Greenland ahead of a visit to the semi-autonomous Danish territory by his vice president, JD Vance. “We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it,” Trump said in an interview on Wednesday. He also told reporters at the White House: “We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark,” adding that the US will go “as far as we have to go.” His comments prompted anger in Greenland where there have long been calls for full independence from…
When Netflix created The Queen’s Gambit in 2020, it likely didn’t expect what it would do for the little-appreciated game of chess all the way in Pakistan. Five years on, the flurry of interest the hit series initially roused may have faded away, but its enduring impact on the popularity of the game, particularly among women, shows up in subtle ways. Sometimes, even on national television. For cricket-obsessed Pakistanis, chess has never really gained mainstream attention. And maybe understandably so because, let’s be honest, the game does have a PR problem. It’s not telegenic, nor does it give you the…