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One of sport’s greatest champions joins Canada’s first WNBA team as a Managing PartnerCNW Group | Toronto TempoTennis superstar Serena Williams is continuing her investment in women’s sports with a new ownership stake in the WNBA’s Toronto Tempo, the team announced on Monday.The Tempo, the WNBA’s first expansion team in Canada, will begin play in the 2026 season and is also owned by Larry Tanenbaum, chairman of Kilmer Sports Ventures.”I have always said that women’s sports are an incredible investment opportunity. I am excited to partner with Larry and all of Canada in creating this new WNBA franchise and legacy,”…

Listen to article The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for a crackdown on tax evasion in Pakistan’s real estate sector as negotiations begin for the release of a $1 billion loan tranche in Islamabad. This demand is part of the ongoing discussions aimed at securing the next tranche of the $7 billion loan program. Pakistan has assured the IMF that it will activate the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) to address tax evasion in the sector. As part of the plan, authorities intend to take action against individuals involved in declaring false property values, with penalties including imprisonment and fines. Agents…

Mexico’s president says country is ready for anything ahead of Tuesday deadline, as Canadian officials warn retaliation.A day before US President’s Donald Trump’s tariffs are expected to go into effect, Mexico and Canada say they have plans in place for how to respond. Trump is expected to decide on Monday what levels of tariffs he will impose early on Tuesday on Canada and Mexico amid last-minute negotiations over border security and efforts to halt the inflow of fentanyl opioids. Trump has vowed to impose 25 percent tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico, with 10 percent for Canadian energy. Mexican President…

Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hottges speaks during Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona on March 3, 2025.Lluis Gene | Afp | Getty ImagesBARCELONA — Europe needs its own version of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges said Monday as he made an impassioned plea for the region to cut red tape on the telecommunications industry.Europe is falling behind peers such as the U.S. and China when it comes to key technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and next-generation 5G networks, Höttges said during a panel event at the Mobile World…

Oppo is the sixth-largest smartphone maker in China, according to Counterpoint Research.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBARCELONA — Chinese smartphone firm Oppo is taking a page out of Apple’s playbook with the launch of a private cloud computing system to keep users’ sensitive conversations separate from its own artificial intelligence products.The company on Monday announced a deal with Google that will see it use the U.S. tech firm’s Confidential Computing software, which uses encryption to ensure user data can’t be viewed by third parties, to power a new privacy-preserving solution it’s calling Private Computing Cloud.The idea is to make sure…

ISLAMABAD: Efforts to forge a grand opposition alliance against the PML-N-led coalition government remain stalled as JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has yet to receive some guarantees he seeks from the PTI, it emerged on Sunday. Key PTI leaders while admitting that the JUI-F chief has yet to fully commit to an opposition alliance with the PTI as he seeks clarity on the party’s chain of command in decision-making as well as who will lead the multi-party opposition alliance if it starts protests against the government. With PTI founder Imran Khan in jail, the Maulana has asked Imran’s party to…

Far-right Freedom Party won most votes in September elections, but new ruling coalition keeps it in opposition.Conservative Christian Stocker has been sworn in as Austria’s chancellor at the head of a three-party coalition government, ending five months of political deadlock that followed a far-right party’s election win. The swearing-in on Monday came days after Stocker said a “common programme” had been agreed by his Austrian People’s Party (OVP), the centre-left Social Democrats and the liberal Neos. The creation of the coalition government came after separate bids by the same three parties and the far-right Freedom Party, which won the most…

India’s cricket board defended its World Cup-winning captain Rohit Sharma on Monday after comments about his lack of fitness from a spokesperson for the Congress, the country’s main opposition party. Sharma, who turns 38 next month, is leading the Indian cricket team in the Champions Trophy but was criticised for his weight by Shama Mohamed, a spokesperson for the Congress, who said he was “fat for a sportsperson”. “Need to lose weight, and of course the most unimpressive captain India has ever had!” Mohamed said in a now-deleted post on X late on Sunday. The Congress said her post did…

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Melinda French Gates has committed $2 billion to promote women’s rights and economic mobility. In 2015, she set up her family office, Pivotal Ventures, to support these causes not only through philanthropy but also through investing in women-led funds and startups that serve women. Those investments are managed by Erin Harkless Moore, who joined Pivotal Ventures in 2020 from investment advisory Cambridge Associates. “We want to…

Listen to article LAHORE: In earlier times, people would differentiate Lahore from the southern parts of the country on the basis of its lush green plains and dense tree plantations however, as greenery continues to be replaced by fancy constructions, the day is not far when insufferable temperatures will force locals to evacuate the land of concrete. As per data obtained by The Express Tribune, the temperature of the city is three to four degrees higher than the nearby rural areas, while during the next 50 years, the average temperature in the city is predicted to increase by 4.7 degrees Celsius in…