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Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistan government has launched an ambitious agricultural project with the aim of boosting food security in the South Asian nation of 240 million people. A network of six canals will be built across the country to irrigate millions of acres of barren lands as part of the $3.3bn (945 billion rupees) project called Green Pakistan Initiative (GPI), which was launched by the country’s powerful army chief General Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in 2023. Inaugurated by Munir and the chief minister of Punjab province last month, the canal project has been hailed by supporters…

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator appears on CNBC on July 17, 2024.CNBCNvidia is aiming to anchor CoreWeave’s initial public offering at $40 a share with a $250 million order, according to a person familiar with the matter.The company initially filed the offering at $47 to $55 per share. The source told CNBC’s Leslie Picker that CoreWeave is not planning on downsizing or refiling at this time.CoreWeave did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.Nvidia is already a significant customer of CoreWeave, which rents out remote access to computers based on Nvidia’s AI chips. The tech giant, which also owns about…

Trump says he will be willing to extend TikTok sale deadline in exchange for trade concessions.United States President Donald Trump says he would be willing to reduce tariff rates on China to secure a deal with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the social media app used by 170 million Americans. “With respect to TikTok, and China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly in the form of an approval, maybe, and I think they’ll do that. Maybe I’ll give them a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done,” Trump told reporters…

Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda becomes the latest driver elevated to the famous F1 Red Bull team to drive alongside world champion Max Verstappen after Liam Lawson was demoted.Red Bull Racing says Liam Lawson has been axed and replaced by Yuki Tsunoda, confirming days of speculation just two race weekends into the F1 season. Tsunoda will take over from the struggling New Zealander starting at his home Japanese Grand Prix next week at Suzuka, Red Bull said in a statement on Thursday. Tsunoda, 24, moves up from the RB team to partner with four-time world champion Max Verstappen. Lawson will move back…

Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill announced Thursday morning a $50 million gift through the Weill Family Foundation to establish the Weill Cancer Hub East, a partnership aimed at using research on nutrition and metabolism to develop cancer treatments.The partnership brings together four leading research institutions — with experts from Princeton University, The Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research — to develop an immunotherapy strategy to fight cancer.”Good things happen when people believe in cooperation,” Weill said in an exclusive interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday morning.Weill’s latest donation marks the foundation gifting a total…

Michael Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, on Centre Stage during day two of Web Summit 2024 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.Carlos Rodrigues | Sportsfile | Getty ImagesWhen SuRo Capital CEO Mark Klein brought up the name CoreWeave to Wall Street tech analysts last summer, he would sometimes get looks of confusion. They’d never heard of the company.Klein, meanwhile, was building a big position in a startup that he viewed as becoming a key player in artificial intelligence infrastructure. In May, his firm invested $15 million in the company, and by the end of the year it hat…

An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 16, 2025 shows the snow scenery of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)LHASA, March 27 (Xinhua) — Gama Cedain, chairman of the people’s government of Xizang Autonomous Region in southwest China, said on Thursday that the abolition of feudal serfdom in Xizang is not only a significant milestone in the region’s social development and human rights progress but also a monumental leap in the history of human civilization and global human rights.He made the remarks while delivering a speech to mark the 66th anniversary of the democratic…

Listen to article Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif Al-Qanoua has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, Hamas-affiliated media said early on Thursday, the latest group figure to be killed since Israel resumed its operations in the enclave. Al-Qanoua was killed when his tent was targeted in Jabalia, the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa television said. The same strike wounded several people, while separate attacks killed at least six in Gaza City and one in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, medical sources said. Earlier this week, Israel killed Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’ political office, and Salah al-Bardaweel, another senior leader. Both Bardaweel and Barhoum…

Standing on a Hawaii runway, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told a reporter on March 24, “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that.” The next day, he repeated the statement. The Trump administration’s Signal group texts told a different story. On March 24, The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed how he was accidentally added to a group chat on the messaging app Signal with senior Trump administration officials discussing an impending air strike on US adversaries in Yemen. In the initial story, Goldberg said the “war plans” he received in the…

Captain Son Heung-min says poor pitches for home matches have hurt South Korea’s 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign.South Korean authorities have said they will inspect elite-level football pitches across the country after national skipper Son Heung-min blamed poor playing surfaces for hurting their World Cup hopes. Bad pitches have been a running theme in South Korean football, with former Manchester United and England forward Jesse Lingard, now at FC Seoul, also weighing in on the debate. Two home World Cup qualifiers this month were moved away from Seoul because of the state of the capital stadium’s turf, but Son also…