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An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 25, 2024 shows a view of the standard-gage yard of Horgos railway port in Horgos, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)URUMQI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — Horgos Port in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has become China’s largest land port for commercial vehicle exports, having shipped more than 300,000 units so far this year, Urumqi Customs said on Friday.In the first three quarters of this year, Xinjiang’s foreign trade value reached 393.14 billion yuan (about 55.4 billion U.S. dollars) — a year-on-year surge of 22.1 percent, reflecting a steady upward growth…
Notification states federal government has reasonable grounds to believe party has connections to terrorism Supporters of the banned Islamist political party TLP chant slogans during a protest rally in Lahore, Pakistan October 22, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS The Ministry of Interior has issued a notification regarding the ban on the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), stating that the federal government has “reasonable grounds to believe that TLP is connected and involved in terrorism”. The notification, issued on Friday under Section 11B (1)(a) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, stating that the federal government orders the TLP to be a proscribed organisation for the purpose of…
“Supply constrained,” are the two of the most important words CNBC’s Jim Cramer said he’s heard so far during earnings season and explained why this dynamic is favorable for companies.”When you’re supplied constrained, you have the ability to raise prices, and that’s the holy grail in any industry,” he said.Intel’s strong earnings results were in part because of more demand than supply, Cramer suggested. He noted that the company’s CFO, David Zinsner, said the semiconductor maker is supply constrained for a number of products, and that “industry supply has tightened materially.”Along with Intel, other tech names that are also supply…
This photo taken on Sept. 2, 2024 shows the skyline of the central business district (CBD) at dusk in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — From manufacturing expansion to innovation-driven upgrades, foreign-invested firms are scaling up their investment and positioning themselves for new opportunities in China, as the country pledges even wider, high-standard opening up in the coming years.Last week, Swire Coca-Cola Ltd., a bottler of Coca-Cola, commenced operations at a factory in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. With an investment of more than 900 million yuan (about 126.9 million U.S. dollars), the plant covers…
After first blast, SP Zubair headed to site, but was killed by second explosion along with two team members Two bomb explosions in Hangu district on Friday claimed the lives of SP Operations Asad Zubair and two policemen, while two others were injured during an anti-terror operation led by DPO Hangu, which also resulted in the killing of two terrorists. According to police, unidentified terrorists first targeted the Ghalmina check post in the Bilyamina police jurisdiction with a powerful explosion. The post was unoccupied at the time, preventing any civilian casualties or property damage. After receiving reports of the blast,…
Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups exits the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse after his arraignment on October 23, 2025 in Portland, Oregon.Mathieu Lewis-Rolland | Getty ImagesPortland Trail Blazers Head Coach Chauncey Billups appears to be an unnamed co-conspirator identified in a criminal indictment as telling another man the team planned to intentionally lose a March 2023 game against the Chicago Bulls to improve the Trail Blazers’ chances of getting a better pick in the NBA draft.Details in the indictment describing the NBA playing and coaching career of “Co-Conspirator 8,” who leaked the plan to tank the game, match…
India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air. Cloud seeding is the practice of using aeroplanes to fire salt or other chemicals into clouds to induce rain. New Delhi city authorities, working with the government’s Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, launched a test run on Thursday afternoon using a Cessna light aeroplane over the city’s northern Burari area. “A trial seeding flight was done… in which cloud seeding flares were fired”, Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said in a…
SpaceX claimed to have disabled more than 2,500 Starlink Internet devices in the scam centres Thailand’s Tak provincial office reported that 1,049 people crossed from Myanmar into Mae Sot district between Wednesday and Friday morning — up from 677 who had fled the KK Park scam compound by Thursday morning. “I was sleeping when I heard loud knocking and people shouting at us in Chinese,” a Thai woman told the broadcaster. “They were carrying guns,” she added. Thailand’s Immigration Bureau said most of the arrivals were Chinese men. Nationals from India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and more than a dozen…
Earnings season next week goes into overdrive as more than 150 companies in the S & P 500 report their quarterly results. Most of the “Magnificent Seven” tech firms are among them. With Tesla already out and Nvidia not out until Nov. 19, that leaves Alphabet and Club names Amazon , Apple , Meta Platforms , and Microsoft . In total, 10 companies in the portfolio are on next week’s list. Here is where Jim Cramer stands on each. Tuesday Corning reports its third-quarter earnings before Tuesday’s open. The specialty glass maker is our newest stock in the portfolio. We…
“Our intention was always to initiate a conversation about the kind of economy that Americans want to build and the impact of tariffs on workers and businesses,” Ford said of the ad, which has aired in U.S. markets.”We’ve achieved our goal, having reached U.S. audiences at the highest levels,” Ford said. “I’ve directed my team to keep putting our message in front of Americans over the weekend so that we can air our commercial during the first two World Series games.”Ford’s hometown Toronto Blue Jays are set to host the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first game of the Series…