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The Foreign Office has stated that it is hopeful the safe evacuation of former Senator Mushtaq Ahmad will be “successfully completed within the next few days.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, through its Embassy in Amman, is working tirelessly to secure the safe evacuation of former Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan. With the invaluable assistance of the Jordanian government, we are hopeful that the process can be successfully… — Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) October 6, 2025 The Foreign Office (FO) says it is working tirelessly to secure a safe evacuation with the assistance of the Jordanian…

Employees work on solar panels at the QCells solar energy manufacturing factory in Dalton, Georgia, March 2, 2023.Megan Varner | ReutersSeveral groups and nonprofit organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans.They say the Trump administration’s termination of the program was illegal and they want a federal judge to direct the EPA to reinstate it. The program is affiliated with another $20 billion in green funding also terminated under President Donald Trump that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin had characterized…

Figma signage appears at the New York Stock Exchange in New York as the company prepares for its shares to begin trading on July 31, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFigma shares jumped more than 15% on Monday after the design software vendor’s technology was promoted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an onstage demo at his company’s annual DevDay conference in San Francisco.Altman discussed Figma’s integration into ChatGPT, which has over 800 million monthly users. He showed how third-party applications could plug in with OpenAI’s Apps SDK, or software-development framework.”When someone’s using ChatGPT, you’ll be able to find…

Taking advantage of the widening rift within the ruling coalition, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf invited the Pakistan Peoples Party to join hands in tabling a no-confidence motion against the government. During a National Assembly session on Monday, former speaker and PTI leader Asad Qaiser urged the PPP to stop engaging in “friendly fire” and instead take a bold political step. “PPP should show courage and move a no-confidence motion against the government instead of playing a mock political game,” Qaiser said while reacting to the ongoing war of words between the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. The PPP has yet…

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman speaks to the media at the Colovore office in Santa Clara, Calif., on March 12, 2024.The Washington Post | Getty ImagesCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman admitted that his artificial intelligence chipmaker made a mistake last week when it didn’t immediately explain its decision to withdraw its registration for an IPO.In a LinkedIn post late Sunday, Feldman wrote that the company still wants to go public but has changed significantly since its initial filing a year ago. The company wants to revise parts of its prospectus before selling shares to the public. “Given that the business has improved…

Dan Schulman, CEO, Paypal speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2020.Adam Galacia | CNBCVerizon announced on Monday that the board of directors has appointed former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the company’s new CEO.Schulman replaces Hans Vestberg, who had led the company since 2018.Shares of the company sank roughly 5% in midday trading.Verizon said Vestberg will remain on the board of directors until the 2026 annual meeting and will serve as a special advisor through Oct. 4, 2026, to ensure a smooth transition and close the deal to acquire Frontier Communications.Verizon on Monday also announced…

President Donald Trump could “start taking sharp measures” on Monday if the government shutdown continues after the Senate’s next votes on stopgap funding bills, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said.Hassett’s warning on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” came after he said Democrats will be to blame for “any government worker that loses their job” due to reduction-in-force orders issued in response to the shutdown.The Trump administration has repeatedly asserted that the shutdown will result in thousands of federal employees being laid off, rather than merely furloughed, as has been the case in past funding lapses.Hassett said Monday morning that he expects…

CBS News studio at Times Square in Manhattan, New York, United States of America, on July 6th, 2024. Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesParamount Skydance said Monday it has agreed to acquire online publication The Free Press, naming its co-founder and CEO, Bari Weiss, as CBS News’ editor-in-chief.The digital upstart publication, which was launched by Weiss in 2021, will be joined with CBS News. Paramount said Monday The Free Press has 1.5 million subscribers, more than 170,000 of which are paid subscriptions.Weiss founded The Free Press after resigning from The New York Times’ opinion desk in 2020.”Weiss will shape…

Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDeloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic’s artificial intelligence assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe. The rollout will be Anthropic’s largest enterprise deployment ever, building on a partnership that the two companies first unveiled last year. Deloitte, which offers consulting, tax and audit services, is one of the 300,000 business customers Anthropic has amassed in the four years since the startup’s founding. “We are both investing a significant amount in this partnership, whether that’s financial or whether it is just simply the engineering resource that we’re going to…

KARACHI: Pakistan’s floods – among the deadliest in the country’s recent history — swept away villages, submerged farmland and forced over 2 million people from their homes, mainly in the northeastern Punjab province. The consequences, however, are not limited to humans. The catastrophic deluge has also devastated the country’s already fragile wildlife. “Entire habitats have been submerged, encompassing everything from scrub forests and rangelands to critical wetlands that act as wildlife sanctuaries,” Rafiul Haq, a Karachi-based ecologist, told Anadolu. Displaced jackals, wild boars, chinkara antelope, and even elusive jungle cats are now venturing into villages in search of food and…