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In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Israeli forces killed at least 436 people in 100 simultaneous strikes across the Gaza Strip, shattering the fragile two-month-old ceasefire with Hamas. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 436 people were killed including at least 183 children, 94 women, 34 elderly people and 125 men. At least 678 others were injured, many critically, with more still trapped under the rubble. Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, SANAD, identified 23 locations attacked by the Israeli military on Tuesday, from dawn until approximately 2pm local time (12:00 GMT). These locations are mapped below. (Al…
FAISALABAD: Opener Mohammad Faiq struck a magnificent century to help Lahore Region Whites to a massive 134-run win against Larkana Region in their National T20 Cup group match at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad on Monday. Faiq, who brought up his second T20 century in just fourth game, came out all guns blazing as he notched his half-century off just 20 balls, the fastest in the ongoing edition of the tournament. He hit 13 fours and seven sixes in the 56-ball outing and brought up his century with a maximum, off fifty balls. Valuable contributions from Mohammad Akhlaq (35 off 26…
Listen to article PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur has directed the finance department for immediate release of Rs5.5 billion to fulfill various needs of the police in a bid to strengthen and reinforce the police force in the province. The K-P CM chaired an important meeting regarding police affairs at Chief Minister’s Secretariat. Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, Inspector General of Police Zulfiqar Hameed, Additional Chief Secretary Home Muhammad Abid Majeed and senior officials from police and finance department attended the meeting. According to the details, the meeting decided to immediately release Rs3 billion for bulletproof police vehicles and…
On Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump’s administration declassified thousands of documents related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F Kennedy (JFK), whose death has fuelled at least six decades of conspiracy theories. Here is what we know so far: How many documents were released? On Tuesday evening, 2,182 PDF documents, comprising about 63,400 pages, were uploaded to the US National Archives and Records Administration’s website. The documents were released in two rounds, a few hours apart. According to the National Archives, “all records previously withheld for classification” have been released and are accessible either online or in-person.…
KARACHI: The Pakistan Padel Federation (PPF) announced on Tuesday to organise the National Padel Championship, scheduled to take place from April 11-13, here at Padelverse. The event, held under the umbrella of the International Padel Federation and Padel-Asia, in collaboration with Padelverse and Play Pro, will feature three competitive categories: men, women and mixed. In a bid to promote the sport, the PPF has issued a National Padel License free of charge for all participants. The championship aims to establish a national ranking system, with results displayed on the PPF website. Cash prizes totaling up to PKR one million will…
Sheldon Cooper | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSwiss drugmaker Roche has abandoned global targets for a more diverse workforce to avoid penalties from recent U.S. executive orders, the latest in a slew of companies to do so.Among measures taken, Roche said its Chief Diversity Offices in the U.S. and at its Basel headquarters “will focus on inclusion and belonging, and responsibilities will be re-scoped accordingly”. Diversity was not mentioned under the Offices’ new remit.According to a memo to global staff made available to Reuters, the changes were made to ensure that Roche “can continue to deliver medicines and diagnostic solutions to…
Listen to article In a significant development, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has constituted a larger bench to hear various pleas filed with regard to PTI founder Imran Khan’s right to meet his family members and party leaders at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, where the former prime minister is incarcerated. The bench to be led by IHC Acting Chief Justice Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar will comprise Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir and Justice Muhammad Azam Khan. The larger bench will hear more than 20 pleas. The development came as the IHC acting chief heard a petition filed by Adiala jail Superintendent Abdul Ghafoor Anjum who…
The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) has filed a lawsuit against the sport’s governing bodies, accusing them of anti-competitive practices and a disregard for player welfare. The PTPA, an independent players’ union co-founded by Novak Djokovic in 2019, said on Tuesday that after years of good-faith efforts to reform professional tennis, it had been forced to take legal action to end “monopolistic control” of the sport. It said in a statement that, along with more than a dozen players, the PTPA had filed papers in a New York court against the ATP Tour, the WTA Tour, the International Tennis Federation…
Attacks follow Israeli air raids that killed more than 400 Palestinians on Tuesday, breaking a months-long ceasefire.At least 14 Palestinians have been killed in overnight and early morning Israeli attacks on Gaza, a day after more than 400 were killed across the besieged enclave. The deadly Israeli attacks early on Wednesday targeted Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza, as well as Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood in the north. Tents housing forcibly displaced people were also hit, killing a mother and a child. The Israeli army claimed in a statement that it struck a “Hamas military site” in northern Gaza…
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon MuskManuel Orbegozo | Chip Somodevilla | ReutersAfter news broke on the last day of January that Meta might follow Elon Musk’s lead in exiting Delaware to incorporate in another state, Democratic Governor Matt Meyer sprung into action.Delaware has long been the dominant state for U.S. companies to incorporate due to its flexible corporate code and expert judiciary. More than 20% of the state’s tax revenue, amounting to more than $1 billion a year, has historically come from corporate franchise fees, so state lawmakers can ill afford to preside over a…