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. DI KHAN/PESHAWAR: A police convoy came under attack in Hangu district on Sunday, leaving three policemen, including the station house officer (SHO), injured. Separately, blasts allegedly triggered by a short circuit in a police station in Peshawar resulted in the death of a police officer. Official sources said a convoy, carrying SP Investigation Abdul Samad, DSP Tall Mujahid, and SHO Imran Uddin, was returning from Karbogha after attending a meeting with a peace committee when it was ambushed through an improvised explosive device (IED) on Doaba-Karbogha Road in Hangu. According to SP Abdul Samad, the blast caused injuries to…

Chinese tech company Baidu announced Monday it can sell some robotaxi rides without any human staff in the vehicles.BaiduBEIJING — As Baidu ramps up its robotaxi operations worldwide, fully driverless weekly rides as of Oct. 31 have now surpassed 250,000 orders, according to a spokesperson for the company’s driverless car unit Apollo Go.That’s on par with what Waymo reported in late April for its weekly paid U.S. rides. When contacted by CNBC, Waymo did not have a new specific figure to share. The Alphabet-backed robotaxi operator primarily operates in San Francisco and Los Angeles in California and Phoenix, Arizona. Waymo…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses a ceremony in Islamabad marking International Youth Day on Aug 12, 2025. Photo: Express ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reiterated that his government is firmly committed to protecting press freedom and ensuring a safe environment for journalists. “A free press is the guarantee for a strong, transparent and democratic Pakistan,” the PM said in a message on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Sunday. Today, he said, served as a reminder that a free, informed and responsible press was the foundation of any democratic society, adding that journalists enable…

An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 2, 2025 shows the Three Gorges Dam and its outbound power transmission lines in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province. The Three Gorges project, the world’s largest hydropower project, has generated over 423 billion kWh of electricity since it was officially certified as complete and fully functioning on Nov. 1, 2020. (Photo by Zheng Jiayu/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 2, 2025 shows the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province. The Three Gorges project, the world’s largest hydropower project, has generated over 423 billion kWh of electricity since it was…

Dar to attend Arab-Islamic FMs meet in Istanbul; To urge full Israeli withdrawal, unhindered aid flowDeputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan Photo: X/ForeignOfficePk ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar will join his counterparts from key Arab and other Muslim countries in Istanbul on Monday (today) to discuss Gaza peace efforts. Invited by Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the meeting brings together Pakistan and seven other Arab-Islamic countries that were engaged in the peace initiative culminating in the Gaza Peace Agreement signed in Sharm El-Sheikh. During the Istanbul gathering,…

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, attends a press conference after the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31, 2025. Kim Soo-hyeon | Reuters Traders who shorted the S&P 500 — essentially, betting that it would go down — last month were in for a rude surprise. The broad-based index ended the month 2.3% higher, defying “Octoberphobia,” a term that arose because of the market crashes in 1929 and 1987 that happened during the month.The Nasdaq Composite had an even better month than the S&P 500. The tech-heavy index climbed 4.7%, giving a hint of…

This photo taken on Nov. 2, 2025 shows the launch ceremony of the torch relay for China’s 15th National Games in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province,. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)SHENZHEN, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) — The torch relay for China’s 15th National Games blazed a historic trail across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on Sunday, marking the event’s first-ever cross-boundary relay and the flame’s inaugural journey to Hong Kong and Macao.Under a gentle breeze at Shenzhen’s Lianhuashan Mountain, physicist Xue Qikun, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, set off on the first leg.Named “Blossom”, the torch embodies the core themes…

Visitors take selfies at Heilongtan Park in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Nov. 1, 2025. (Photo by Zheng Yi/Xinhua)This photo taken on Nov. 2, 2025 shows a view of Beijing Olympic Park in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Li Xin)People enjoy autumn scenery at Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Nov. 2, 2025. (Photo by Sun Zhongnan/Xinhua)This aerial drone photo shows a villager drying persimmons in Pingle County, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov. 1, 2025. (Photo by Jiang Keqing/Xinhua)People enjoy the autumn scenery on the Huangyaguan section of the Great Wall in Jizhou District, north…

Investing is not just a game of giant Jenga. But the pessimistic hedge funds, or the ones who must have shorts on to justify their high fees, as well as their media acolytes who sound so painfully bearish even if they are just trying to sound like informed skeptics, sure make it seem that way when they fixate on the fate of the stock market and the “Magnificent Seven.” The presumption of the gang tackle of articles about the Seven is simple: The market is too heavily concentrated in these seven stocks: Alphabet , Apple, Amazon , Meta Platforms, Microsoft…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk as they leave after a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersPresident Donald Trump says that Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him assurances that Beijing would take no action toward its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with mainland China while the Republican leader is in office.Trump said that the long-contentious issue of Taiwan did not come up in his talks with Xi on Thursday in South Korea that largely…