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British PM Starmer highlights ‘robust’ security plans for Ukraine, proposing deployment in case of a peace deal.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stresses the United Kingdom’s intention to provide “robust and credible” security guarantees to prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine again as Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to sign up to a US-brokered truce proposal as fighting rages on the ground. “We will build up Ukraine’s own defences and armed forces and be ready to deploy as a ‘coalition of the willing’ in the event of a peace deal to help secure Ukraine on the land, at sea and in…

Pro and anti-President Yoon Suk-yeol protests have gathered across South Korea’s capital before a court ruling deciding whether he will be disqualified from office.Large numbers of South Koreans have gathered across the capital, Seoul, to support or oppose impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol ahead of a court decision on whether his martial law declaration disqualifies him from office. On Saturday, anti-Yoon protesters filled a large square in central Seoul and chanted for his immediate removal. A few streets away, conservative Yoon supporters took up an entire avenue and called for his return while waving South Korean and United States flags. In…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said the government would extend all kinds of support to businessmen for bringing in investment and enhancing exports to achieve sustainable economic progress. He was talking to a delegation of prominent businessmen. He directed that a comprehensive scheme should be introduced for long-term investment in Pakistan. He said a committee had been formed regarding an export facilitation scheme to support exporters, adding the committee would soon present its draft of recommendations for approval. He noted that with the grace of Allah and due to the efforts of his economic team, after gaining…

Prosecutors have charged at least 13 people over November’s railway station roof collapse in Novi Sad.Serbian anticorruption protesters, riot police and supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic have faced off in central Belgrade as tens of thousands of people have turned out for the biggest antigovernment rallies in years. Near-daily student protests began in December after the deaths of 15 people when a roof at a railway station collapsed on November 1 in the northern city of Novi Sad, which critics blame on corruption under Vucic. Sporadic clashes occurred overnight before Saturday’s rally, in front of the National Assembly, from which…

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is trying to serve more investors looking for downside protection from market turmoil.Bryon Lake helped the firm launch its newest buffer exchange-traded fund this month: the Goldman Sachs U.S. Large Cap Buffer 3 ETF.”I’m an investor. You’re an investor. The folks watching are investors, and there’s an incredible amount of uncertainty right now: Tariffs, the widening out of equity markets away from Mag 7 [and] geopolitical issues,” the Goldman Sachs chief transformation officer told anchor Bob Pisani on CNBC’s “ETF Edge.”Lake joined Goldman Sachs last summer. According to the firm’s press release, it was for a…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has said that talks between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund for over $1 billion tranche remained successful and a formal communiqué by the Fund will be released today (Saturday). The finance minister made the statement during a meeting at the Prime Minister’s House, which Shehbaz Sharif chaired to hear out the business community’s grievances, according to the government sources. Shehbaz Sharif inquired from his finance minister whether the IMF handed over the Memorandum for Economic and Financial Policies (MEFP) to Pakistan – the set of policy documents that define the conditions for the…

According to a New York Times report, the travel ban could affect at least 40 countries.United States President Donald Trump‘s administration is mulling a new travel ban that is expected to affect citizens from dozens of countries to varying degrees, The New York Times reported. Quoting anonymous officials, the report published on Friday said the US government’s draft list featured 43 countries, divided into three categories of travel restrictions. The first group of 10 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Cuba and North Korea, would be set for a full visa suspension. In the second group, five countries – Eritrea, Haiti,…

Silicon Valley’s earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence.Startup accelerator Y Combinator — known for backing Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe — this week held its annual demo day in San Francisco, where founders pitched their startups to an auditorium of potential venture capital investors.Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC that this group is growing significantly faster than past cohorts and with actual revenue. For the last nine months, the entire batch of YC companies in aggregate grew 10% per week, he said.”It’s not just the number one or two companies — the whole batch is…

Virat Kohli welcomed the inclusion of cricket in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and although the Indian great will not be coaxed out of retirement for the showpiece, he said he believed a new generation of Indian athletes would be ready to strike gold. Cricket is returning to the Games after more than a century with a proposed six-team Twenty20 format for men and women in Los Angeles. Kohli, 36, who retired from the sport’s shortest format last June after India’s World Cup triumph, said international leagues around the world had played a big role in elevating the profile of…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The army on Friday traced a strong nexus between India, the terrorist group and its handlers operating from Afghanistan via satellite phones behind the hijacking of Jaffer Express. Lt-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the chief military spokesperson, shared details of the train incident, in a news conference alongside Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) director general screened several AI-generated, fake and old video clips that were aired by India’s mainstream media, primarily provided by an internationally recognised terrorist group, to glorify the hijacking and build an anti-Pakistan narrative by spreading misinformation. He also briefed the…