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Who: Real Madrid vs Atletico MadridWhat: UEFA Champions League round of 16, first leg tieWhen: Tuesday, March 4 at 9pm (20:00 GMT)Where: Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain Follow Al Jazeera’s live photo and text commentary stream. The Madrid derby takes centre stage in the Champions League round of 16, with Atletico Madrid in a commanding position to try to finally get the best of rival Real Madrid in the European competition. Real, the record 15-time European champion and current holders, have been a thorn for Atletico in the Champions League over the years, beating the city rival in two finals.…

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator appears on CNBC on July 17, 2024.CNBCCoreWeave, a provider of cloud-based Nvidia processors to companies including Meta and Microsoft, is headed for the public market.In its IPO prospectus on Monday, CoreWeave said revenue in 2024 soared more than 700% to $1.92 billion. The company recorded a net loss of $863.4 million. CoreWeave filed to trade on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol “CRWV.”Originally known as Atlantic Crypto, CoreWeave got its start in 2017 by offering infrastructure for mining the ethereum cryptocurrency. After digital currency prices fell, the company bought up additional graphics processing units (GPUs) and changed…

Listen to article Intermittent rains in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) over the past five days have resulted in four fatalities and nine injuries, according to a report by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). The report, released on Monday, revealed that four people—three men and one woman—lost their lives in accidents caused by the rains, while nine others, including four children and three women, were injured. The heavy rainfall affected several districts, including Haripur, Battagram, Bajaur, Upper and Lower Kohistan, Dir, Hangu, Khyber, and Torghar. The report also mentioned that 14 houses were damaged by the rains, with 10 partially damaged and three completely…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gives a keynote address at CES 2025, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Jan. 6, 2025. Steve Marcus | ReutersAlarm bells went off in 2024 when Singapore unexpectedly emerged as Nvidia’s second-largest revenue source. The disclosure fueled widespread speculation that Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips were being channeled to China.Those concerns intensified in January after China’s DeepSeek burst onto the international AI scene due to the sophistication and reported cost-effectiveness of its model. DeepSeek’s AI is trained on Nvidia’s graphics processing units despite export restrictions designed to keep the technology out of China.Singapore…

A historic Oscar win for No Other Land shakes Hollywood, amplifying Palestinian storytelling on cinema’s biggest stage At the 2025 Academy Awards, No Other Land made history by winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, a groundbreaking moment for Palestinian cinema and a rare recognition of the struggle against occupation.  The film, which chronicles the forced displacement of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, prevailed over a strong field of nominees, including Porcelain War (about artists surviving the war in Ukraine) and Black Box Diaries (from Japanese filmmaker Shiori Ito, confronting sexual violence).  While the Academy has a history of awarding politically…

Afghanistan says one member of its security forces is killed and two injured in overnight clashes at Torkham crossing.At least one person has been killed as Pakistani and Afghan security forces have traded fire at the recently closed main border crossing between the two countries. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs confirmed on Monday that one member of its security forces had been killed and two injured in the overnight clashes at the Torkham crossing, a vital transit point that Pakistan closed last month after disputing its neighbour’s construction of a new border post. Two Pakistani security officials speaking on condition…

Microsoft is giving its health-care artificial intelligence tools a makeover. The company on Monday unveiled a new voice-activated AI assistant that combines capabilities from its dictation solution, Dragon Medical One, and ambient listening solution, DAX Copilot, into one tool.”Dragon Copilot” will be able to help doctors quickly pull information from medical sources and automatically draft clinical notes, referral letters, post-visit summaries and more, according to the company. It’s Microsoft’s latest effort to help health-care workers cut down their daunting clerical workloads, which are a major source of burnout in the industry.Clinicians spend nearly 28 hours a week on administrative tasks like…

U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement about an investment from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 3, 2025. Leah Millis | ReutersPresident Donald Trump said that the U.S. will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Tuesday, scrapping hopes of a last-minute deal that would avoid stoking a trade war with America’s top trading partners.Trump, speaking at the White House on Monday afternoon, said there was “no room left” to negotiate with the two U.S. allies.”They’re all set. They go into effect tomorrow,” he said.Stocks, already trading…

Listen to article Information Minister Attaullah Tarar has stated that the government had sacrificed its political interests for the greater good of the state. He made these remarks during a press conference in Islamabad on Monday. “We have sacrificed our politics for the state,” he said, adding that decisions made under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif were in the best interest of the country. He also revealed that the PM would present the full facts to the nation on Tuesday. Marking one year since the formation of the current coalition government, Tarar emphasised the improvements in the country’s economic indicators. “Today, inflation…

As the Israeli government stalls on the Gaza ceasefire deal agreed between it and the Palestinian group Hamas, delaying progression to phase two of the agreement, protesters gathered outside of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence on Sunday night. Yes, they were angry at his decision to unilaterally extend phase one of the deal, and frustrated at his delays in fully implementing the agreement, brokered in January. But their banners and slogans had no references to the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, after Israel on Sunday blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave. Instead, the focus was on…