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Katy Perry performs during the opening ceremony of the 2025 Invictus Games at BC Place on February 08, 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Samir Hussein | Wireimage | Getty ImagesSinger Katy Perry and CBS’ Gayle King will join Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez on his rocket company Blue Origin’s next crewed mission.The company on Thursday announced the next six-person crew of its New Shepard rocket, which also includes aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist and civil rights activist. The launch is planned for this spring.The mission will be the 11th human flight…

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political and Public Affairs Rana Sanaullah said on Thursday that the premier would take notice of the state of affairs of cricket after hosts Pakistan exited the Champions Trophy tournament without a win. Pakistan’s final shot at redemption went out with a whimper when the match with Bangladesh was washed out due to rain in Rawalpindi. The team finished fourth and last in the group stage with just one point in three matches. A wave of criticism engulfed the Pakistan cricket team following their six-wicket defeat to India in Dubai. Prior to that, the…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday that the decision of a court to hand over civilian to the military custody for trial on the basis of first information report (FIR) alone was not correct. Faisal Siddiqui, the lawyer for the civil society, continued his arguments before a seven-member bench, led by Justice Aminuddin Khan in the intra-court appeal over the trial of civilians in military court. In his arguments, he said that the accused could be handed over only after the indictment. Siddiqui told the court that Uzair Bhandari, the lawyer for the Pakistan…

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has unveiled a new plan to combat bird flu, the spread of which has created a severe egg shortage and caused egg prices to spike in the US. The $1bn plan includes financial aid for poultry farmers as well as funding for new research for treatment and vaccines. In the short term, the agency aims to increase egg imports to meet demand. “American farmers need relief, and American consumers need affordable food,” wrote Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a Wall Street Journal editorial. “To every family struggling to buy eggs: We hear you,…

The first inquiry by a national authority also pointed to the possible presence of an ‘unknown fuel’.Greece’s worst rail disaster in 2023 was due to chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, investigators have said a day before the tragedy’s second anniversary. The inquiry by the National Aviation Investigation Agency and Railway Accidents and Transportation Safety (HARSIA), the first by the Greek authorities to conclude, investigated the causes of the crash that killed 57 people as a passenger train and a freight train collided head-on near Larissa. The incident on February 28, 2023, led…

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts his first cabinet meeting with Elon Musk in attendance, Washington, D.C., U.S., February 26, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Thursday said that his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada will go into effect on March 4, and that China will be charged an additional 10% tariff on the same date.The sweeping 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada had been paused on Feb. 3 for one month. But the Trump administration has recently sown confusion about whether they would go back into effect when the delays expired.In a Truth Social post Thursday…

FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seen in Silver Spring, Maryland November 4, 2009. Jason Reed | ReutersA crucial March meeting of vaccine advisors to the Food and Drug Administration has been canceled without explanation, a member of the advisory panel told CNBC on Wednesday. The meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, is held every March to select flu strains for shots released in the upcoming fall and winter. But Dr. Paul Offit, a member of that panel, told CNBC that he received an email at 4:18 p.m. ET on…

Listen to article An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday extended the physical remand of Armaghan Qureshi and Shiraz, key suspects in the Mustafa Amir murder case, for five days while ordering their medical examination. During the hearing, Armaghan claimed he was being tortured in police custody and requested not to be handed over for further interrogation. He further stated that he was denied access to a washroom for ten days. The court, however, dismissed his allegation of being denied access to a washroom stating that “If that were the case, you would not be standing here.” The court allowed the accused to…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Rebel commander Corneille Nangaa says he is unharmed as video shows dead, wounded people in Bakavu.Explosions have rocked a major city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a rally for the M23 rebel group and their supporters that one of the armed group’s top commanders attended. The first explosion in Bukavu on Thursday caused panic, sending attendees fleeing from the area before a second explosion rang out, according to the AFP news agency. Residents said the explosions were accompanied by gunfire. People ran through the streets, some bleeding and carrying limp bodies, video…

Stripe announced a tender offer for employees and shareholders on Thursday that values the payments startup at $91.5 billion, the closest the company has been to its peak valuation of $95 billion in 2021.”We very much care about providing good liquidity for employees and existing shareholders,” Stripe co-founder and President John Collison told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin in an interview on “Squawk Box.”As for the company’s long-awaited public market debut, Collison said, “We are not dogmatic on the public vs. private question,” and “have no near-term IPO plans.”Stripe also revealed in its annual letter on Thursday that it generated $1.4 trillion…