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Group of 65 migrants reaches Panama City after being released from the Darien, a dangerous jungle region near Colombia.Panama has released 65 migrants who were held for weeks in a remote camp after being deported from the United States, telling them they have at least 30 days to leave the Central American nation. Authorities said the people released on Saturday will have the option of extending their stay in Panama up to 90 days if needed, allowing them to begin the legal process for resettlement or voluntary return to their homeland. The group was released from the Darien, a dangerous…

DUBAI: New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner could not confirm that pace spearhead Matt Henry will be available for Sunday’s Champions Trophy final but was confident they can tame India’s mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy. The tournament’s leading wicket-taker Henry suffered a shoulder injury while taking a catch in the deep in the semi-final against South Africa. “Matt’s going to have a bowl just to see how he is,” Santner told reporters on Saturday. “I guess we’ll make a call after that.” India beat New Zealand in a group match in Dubai where Chakravarthy claimed 5-42 with his bag of tricks that…

The opening meeting of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) — From childcare subsidies to young innovators propelling artificial intelligence (AI) advances like DeepSeek, the key topics at China’s annual “two sessions” reveal how the country is reshaping its demographic dividend by encouraging births and accelerating talent-driven innovation.As China’s population continues to decline and age, a raft of measures unveiled in this year’s government work report is expected to help sustain demographic resilience in…

PUBLISHED March 09, 2025 KARACHI: For a moment, it seemed that Russia’s hubris had given Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky some much-needed breathing room exactly a week after his disastrous face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House. A relentless missile barrage on Thursday and Friday, aimed at crippling Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, had prompted Trump to reconsider large-scale US sanctions on Moscow. According to Ukrainian authorities, Russia launched 67 missiles and 194 drones at power and gas facilities across the country just days after the Trump administration announced a pause on military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine.…

Violence in Latakia, Tartous leaves hundreds dead as Syria faces deepening divides amid escalating conflict.Fighting has erupted at Syria’s Banias gas power plant, just hours after the country’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa urged for peace amid escalating communal violence that has killed hundreds of civilians in the coastal areas. Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reported on Sunday that fighting broke out with security forces at the plant after an attack by “remnants of the former regime”. Earlier on Sunday, al-Sharaa stated the need to “preserve national unity and domestic peace; we can live together” as newly appointed forces clash with…

New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first as they face unbeaten India in the Champions Trophy final in Dubai today (Sunday). We are providing updates every 10 overs. Refresh for the latest. Overs 41-50; 252 New Zealand kept the scoreboard ticking by rotating the strike, maintaining a run rate of around 4.6. Daryl Mitchell reached his half-century in 91 deliveries—the slowest fifty of his career—but struggled to accelerate before falling to Mohammad Shami, who claimed his first wicket of the innings. Michael Bracewell played an aggressive cameo, scoring a quickfire 53 off 40 balls, helping the Kiwis…

A person walks past the entrance to a Google building in Dublin, Feb. 15, 2023.Artur Widak | Anadolu | Getty ImagesAfter landing internship offers from Amazon, Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco.But he won’t be joining any of those companies.Instead, Lee will be building his own startup that offers a peculiar service: helping software engineers use artificial intelligence to cheat in their technical job interviews. “Everyone programs nowadays with the help of AI,” said Lee, a 21-year-old student at Columbia University, which has opened disciplinary proceedings against him, according to documents viewed…

The elder brother of former senator Mushtaq Ahmed Khan was shot dead in Swabi’s Ahad Khan village, police said on Sunday. Shakeel Ahmed Khan was fatally struck when he attempted to intervene in a dispute at his neighbour’s house. The suspect had allegedly just shot and killed his own father. As Shakeel Ahmed Khan rushed to assist the victim, he was also targeted and fatally shot, police said. Swabi District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Azhar stated that Kamran is a drug addict and mentally unstable. Law enforcement officials have launched an investigation and assured that the suspect will be arrested soon.…

Here is the situation on Sunday, March 9 : Fighting Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had retaken the village of Lebedevka in its western region of Kursk, and taken the village of Novenke, across the border in Ukraine’s Sumy region. Russian special forces were storming the town of Sudzha after using a gas pipeline to surprise Ukrainian units as part of a major offensive to eject them from Kursk, pro-Russia war bloggers said. A Ukrainian drone hit an industrial facility overnight in Russia’s Volga River region of Chuvashia, some 1,300km (800 miles) from the border with Ukraine, the regional…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, on the day he is sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Service in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 13, 2025. Nathan Howard | ReutersThe nation’s new top health official could further erode already falling U.S. vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases, a development that comes as a growing measles outbreak has led to the first U.S. death from the disease in a decade.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic, now leads the Department of Health and Human Services and wields enormous power over the federal agencies…