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Islamabad — As the threat of climate change continues to grow, recent floods in Pakistan have significantly weakened societies’ resilience in dealing with and recovering from such disasters, a new study has revealed. Lloyd’s Register Foundation, an independent international charity based in London, announced the findings on Tuesday as part of the latest edition of its flagship survey, the World Risk Poll Resilience Index. The survey also revealed that the number of Pakistanis who have experienced a disaster in the past five years has more than doubled since 2021, increasing from 11% to 27%. “This increase was mainly driven by…

The Creighton University Mid-America Business Sentiment Index, a key economic gauge for the nine-state region stretching from Minnesota to Arkansas, has risen above the growth-neutral threshold of 50.0 for the third time in 2024. The index of economic activity, which uses the same methodology as the National Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and is assessed on a scale of 0 to 100, with 50.0 indicating growth neutral, rose to 51.3 in June from 48.2 in May, marking the third time in 2024 that the index has exceeded growth neutral. “The overall index, like the U.S. index, has been…

MANILA – The latest skirmish in the South China Sea, in which the Chinese navy forcibly boarded and then disarmed Philippine navy personnel on a resupply mission, has rattled the Philippine government and exposed cracks in the once-united administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. All indications are that the Philippines’ latest Rotational Resupply (RoRe) mission to the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, which houses a de facto Philippine military base on board the stranded BRP Sierra Madre, was not coordinated among the relevant government agencies. Contradictory statements from the Philippine government after an unprecedented incident that could have easily escalated into…

Supreme Court’s message in First Amendment case: Technology can control social media at willThe Supreme Court remanded two cases challenging social media regulation laws in Florida and Texas to lower courts.Lynn Greenkey & The Conversation US The following essay is The Conversation is an online publication covering the latest research.The U.S. Supreme Court has sent back to a lower court a decision on whether states can block social media companies like Facebook and X, the former name of Twitter, from regulating and controlling what users can post on their platforms.The Florida and Texas laws sought to impose restrictions on social…

Daniel Dines, co-founder and CEO of UiPath.UI Pass Robots have evolved. From early black and white movies (Metropolis) almost 100 years ago, robots finally became a reality and started helping to weld rivets in automotive engineering factories around the 1970s. Then, robots evolved into robotic humanoids, and a Japanese company invented a proof-of-concept walking robot, but these are still hardly part of our homes. Then, throughout the post-millennium era, as the era of robotic process automation began to flourish, software robots, or “bots,” emerged, giving software systems new autonomous capabilities to perform not only maintenance functions but also useful and…

Millions of British voters will head to the polls on Thursday to choose a new House of Commons and a new government. Voters elect 650 members to represent each constituency or region, and the leader of the party with the most members becomes prime minister. Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is widely expected to be defeated by the main opposition, centre-left Labour Party, after 14 years in power under five prime ministers. Under Britain’s “single-member constituency” system, the Conservative and Labour parties have traditionally dominated British politics, making it difficult for smaller parties to win seats in Parliament. But the…

Mohammed Rizwan spoke to media in Peshawar, Pakistan.© X (Twitter) The examination of the Pakistan cricket team after their disastrous T20 World Cup run has been long and tough to say the least. Pakistan were considered the dark horses but failed to even make it out of the group stage. They were stunned by co-hosts and debutants USA in their opening match of the tournament and then lost to their arch rivals in a nail-biting match. Pakistan’s defeat meant they missed out on a place in the Super 8 qualifiers and the result caused uproar among current and…

WASHINGTON – A majority of registered voters believe President Joe Biden is not mentally or cognitively healthy enough to serve a second term as president, following his shaky performance in last week’s debates, according to a new poll. A national CBS/You Gov poll conducted a few days after the debate found that 72% of voters believe Biden is not in good enough mental or cognitive health to serve as president, along with nearly half of his own party, up 7 points from early June. Forty-nine percent of voters said they believe former President Donald Trump is not mentally or cognitively…

If the Big 12 Conference preseason media poll is any indication, the Texas Tech football team won’t have the same high expectations from the outside heading into the 2024 season.The poll, released Tuesday, has the Red Raiders ranked ninth overall in the 16-team conference. Tech was ranked No. 4 in last year’s preseason rankings but finished seventh in Big 12 play with a 5-4 record.Newcomer Utah narrowly edged out Kansas State for the top spot, receiving 20 first-place votes to the Wildcats’ 19. Oklahoma State, Kansas and Arizona took third, fourth and fifth places.Iowa State University ranked sixth, West Virginia…

Zabihullah Mujahid described the exchanges as “good” and hoped for improved relations between the two neighboring countries Kamran Yousaf | July 2, 2024 Islamabad: The Pakistani and Afghan Taliban held key talks in the Qatari capital for the first time in months as part of the latest efforts to resolve differences over the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The meeting took place on Monday at the residence of Pakistan’s ambassador to Qatar between Pakistan’s special envoy to Afghanistan Ambassador Asif Durrani and Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid. Durrani and Mujahid were leading their respective countries’ delegations at the third meeting of the…