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Listen to article Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to completely eradicate terrorism from Pakistan, stating that the nation will “bury this curse forever” and prevent its resurgence. In a speech at an event in Islamabad on Saturday, he declared that the government would take decisive action to eliminate terrorism from the country. Referring to the tragic suicide bombing in Akora Khattak, which led to the martyrdom of Maulana Hamidul Haq and several other Pakistanis, Prime Minister Sharif condemned the attack, calling it a deeply sorrowful incident. He highlighted that the Jamia, where both Islamic and modern education is provided, produced true…

A public meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy descended into a spat.A visit that Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenskyy hoped would secure US support in the face of Russia’s invasion, instead ended in a very public argument. The meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House was supposed to be about signing over rights to some of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. Kyiv hoped that would keep US assistance coming, despite not containing any guarantees of security against Russian aggression. Instead, President Zelenskyy got a dressing down from Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, who accused the wartime…

A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.  Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon.”We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X. “Additional details can be found under MO1020913 in the admin center.”The number of reports that services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure were down spiked after 3:30 p.m.…

Elon Musk speaks during the first cabinet meeting hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., February 26, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersThe Trump administration sent out a second round of emails on Friday evening demanding all federal employees summarize their work over the past week after the first effort a week ago fizzled amid a wave of confusing directives.Reuters has confirmed that the emails from the government’s human resources arm, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, were sent to multiple agencies, asking workers to list five things they accomplished during the week.The move marks…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday confirmed the Trump administration’s move to release $397 million as part of the “end user agreement” about F-16 fighter jets between the two countries. “The F-16 oversight program is a regular feature of the Pakistan-US defence collaboration under the “end user agreement” and Pakistan welcomes its continuation,” Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan told his weekly news briefing. The official confirmation came after reports suggested that the Trump administration released $397 million for a US-backed programme in Pakistan to ensure that the US-made F-16 fighter jets were employed for counterterrorism operations and not against rival…

The crash happened on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane.At least 37 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crash involving two buses in the western Potosi region of Bolivia, police and local authorities have said. The accident happened on Saturday at 7am local time (11:00 GMT) on the route between the cities of Uyuni and Colchani, when one of the vehicles swerved into the oncoming lane. Uyuni is the gateway to the Salar de Uyuni, a major tourist attraction and the world’s largest…

Listen to article A large number of people, including Afghan Consul General, attended the funeral of Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani – chief of the (JUI-S) – who was martyred in a suicide blast at the Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak area of Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The bombing, which occurred after Friday prayers, killed Maulana Hamidul-Haq Haqqani and others. Following the tragic incident, a large crowd gathered at the madrassa, where Maulana Hamid al-Haq’s funeral prayers were led by his son, Maulana Sahibzada Abdul Haq Sani. Tight security arrangements were in place around Darul Uloom Haqqania, with police forces deployed…

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., arrives for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic about New York’s response to COVID-19, at O’Neill building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesAndrew Cuomo officially launched his bid to be the next mayor of New York City, attempting a comeback in politics after the former New York governor’s high-profile resignation in 2021.Cuomo, who left his previous post because of a damning sexual harassment scandal, announced his candidacy on Saturday against Mayor Eric Adams, a fellow Democrat who faces bribery…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The tax shortfall has widened to Rs606 billion in just eight months of this fiscal year amid the government’s demoralising move to transfer a senior female officer for questioning late-evening orders to fix the national flag on a borrowed vehicle for the finance minister. While the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) sustained a colossal shortfall of Rs606 billion against the July-February target of Rs7.95 trillion, it also faced the difficult task of reassuring its visibly frustrated officers due to a highly questionable intervention by the finance minister’s staff. The FBR provisionally pooled Rs7.342 trillion during the July-February period…

Psst. Over here. Over here. You want to hear a trade secret? The bulk of journalists who cover the so-called “halls of power” in Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London, Paris and beyond prefer routine over spontaneity. You see, predictability is easy. It’s comforting because most capital cities are mundane places where boring is not only an agreeable fact on the ground, but also a prevailing state of mind. That is why the overwrought reaction to the lively dressing-down US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance gave Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was so in keeping with the White House press corps’…