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Here are the most important news items that investors need to start their trading day:1. StallmartInvestors hope to end a lackluster week on a high note. Stocks dropped on Thursday, as the S&P 500 dipped 0.4%, the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 1%. Walmart’s stock fell more than 6% after it gave a disappointing profit outlook for the current fiscal year. More broadly, fears about stubborn inflation have reemerged, and President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods and on all steel and aluminum imports loom. The S&P 500 has climbed 0.1%…
Defending champions Real Madrid face city rivals Atletico in the Champions League last 16, while Liverpool play PSG.The Champions League has handed more heavyweight clashes when the draw for the round of 16 was made in Nyon, Switzerland. Defending champion Real Madrid’s reward for removing 2023 title winner Manchester City on Wednesday is two city derbies against Atletico Madrid – the team it beat in the finals in 2014 and 2016. Bayern Munich was paired with Bayer Leverkusen – the Bundesliga leader against its defending champion, who played a tight 0-0 draw just last weekend. Liverpool were the top-seeded team…
SHUANGYASHAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — An increasing number of reclamation areas in Heilongjiang Province have entered their spring farming season. Staff members are busy removing residual snow and enclosing greenhouses designated to rice seedling raising.In 2024, the grain production of Heilongjiang Province achieved its 21st consecutive bountiful harvest, and its total grain output exceeded 800 million tonnes for the first time, ranking the first in the country for 15 years in a row.Growers carry out greenhouse enclosing operations at a rice seedlings raising base of agriculture company Beidahuang in Shuangyashan City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 20, 2025. (Xinhua/Wang Song)A…
From pilot fatigue to cybersecurity conspiracies, 2025’s aviation chaos has everyone asking: What’s really going on? If you’ve been nervously clutching your armrest a little tighter before takeoff lately, you’re not alone. The start of 2025 has seen an unsettling string of plane crashes, and it’s not the best PR for the airline industry. Social media is buzzing, nervous flyers are reconsidering their vacation plans, and conspiracy theorists? Well, they’re having an absolute field day. From a mid-air collision over Washington, D.C., to a Delta Air Lines jet deciding that staying upright on a Toronto runway was too much to…
Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) takes a selfie with a greets customers on arrival for the release of the Vision Pro headset at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesWhen Apple revealed the Vision Pro in 2023, it called the $3,500 headset its next “major platform.” Two years later, and a year after going on sale, the device is thin on apps. Apple doesn’t regularly release stats on the number of Vision Pro apps that are available, and it’s hard to tell how many new apps come out in any given…
Pakistan faces a major crisis as Trump’s aid freeze halts key projects, leaving communities and workers in limbo. Donald Trump, a representative of the destruction and violence of our time, imposed a 90-day freeze on all humanitarian funding globally on his first day in office—January 20th, casting a bleak and morbid shadow over the desecration that is imminent over the next four years. As the world is left reeling, Pakistan is also left the worse for wear. Historically, the country has been a major recipient of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding, receiving $116.5 million in 2024 alone.…
A popular beverage company is attempting to capitalise on Pakistan hosting its biggest cricket event in nearly 30 years, and steal the spotlight away from the host nation’s official team sponsor Pepsi, by tapping into the country’s love of “tape-ball cricket”. International fixtures were halted in Pakistan after a 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team bus and only began returning in 2018. Companies in Pakistan are now eyeing the Champions Trophy, which started on Wednesday, as one of the most valuable marketing opportunities in decades. Unable to attach its brand to Pakistan’s national team, who are sponsored by…
The incident marks the second confrontation this week between Manila and Beijing over disputed South China Sea islands.China’s military said it drove away three Philippines aircraft “illegally” flying over the disputed Spratly Islands, marking the second aerial incident this week involving Beijing and Manila in the South China Sea. A spokesperson for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command, Air Force Colonel Tian Junli, said the military had chased away two small Cessna 208 planes and a light N-22 aircraft on Thursday. The Southern Theatre Command said Manila’s aircraft had acted provocatively in a bid to assert the Philippines’…
STOCKHOLM — Executives at U.S. tech giants Google and Meta said that Europe’s artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation, adding to rhetoric from Donald Trump’s administration that the region’s strict tech rules are choking innovation.Speaking at the Techarena tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, public policy chiefs at both Google and Meta used the stage as a platform to voice their concerns about the bloc’s strict approach to regulating technologies such as AI and machine learning.”I think there is now broad consensus that European regulation around technology has its issues, and sometimes it’s too fragmented, like GDPR…
Listen to article Local authorities have exhumed the body of Mustafa Amir and transferred it to a morgue for further investigation, Express News citied. The exhumation took place at the Edhi cemetery in Moach Goth area of Karachi. The procedure was conducted under heavy police presence, with a medical team on-site to oversee the process. Police Surgeon Dr. Samiya Syed and Amir Hassan, head of the CPLC Identification Project, were present at the site. They initially examined the grave before the medical team took samples from the body for further analysis. The body of Mustafa Amir had been handed over to the Edhi Foundation…