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Pakistani shooter Huzaifa Waleed Gill won a silver medal in the 800-yard individual event at the European F-Class Long Range Championship 2025 held in the United Kingdom, according to official competition results. The event featured participation from over 260 shooters representing 18 countries, including the United States, Canada, Germany, the UK, and Pakistan. Pakistan was represented by a 12-member team, which scored 1,106 points out of a possible 1,200, the championship’s official report confirmed. Read: Precision and Grit shines at long range shooting event Team Pakistan officials on-site confirmed that Gill’s performance raised the Pakistani flag on the global stage,…

Oracle stock roared 40% higher on Wednesday after reporting gobsmacking cloud demand numbers, setting the company on track for a historic gain.The cloud giant is on pace for its best day since 1992, and is now quickly approaching the $1 trillion market cap benchmark. Oracle is now at $950 billion.The company said Tuesday after the bell that it has $455 billion in remaining performance obligations, up 359% from a year earlier.”This is a very historic kind of print right here from Oracle with this backlog,” Ben Reitzes, technology research head at Melius Research, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime” on Tuesday. “The…

Stephen Miran, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, following a television interview outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Senate Banking Committee voted Wednesday to advance the nomination by President Donald Trump of Stephen Miran, a top White House economic advisor, to become Federal Reserve governor for at least the next several months.The 13-11 vote along party lines came a day after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked Trump from firing another Fed governor, Lisa Cook, while her lawsuit challenging his removal of her…

EverPass Media has inked a deal with Disney’s ESPN to distribute live games and other content from its ESPN+ streaming service to bars, restaurants and other commercial establishments in the U.S.The deal bulks up EverPass’ offering of live sports streaming to businesses. EverPass already provides the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package, as well as all NFL games that are available exclusively on streaming services this season, such as last Friday’s matchup that was only shown on Alphabet’s YouTube.Live sports reign supreme over most other content in attracting big audiences on both traditional TV and streaming platforms. But as viewers continue to…

Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal has warned that Pakistan’s healthcare system cannot sustain the growing burden of disease unless the focus shifts from treatment to prevention. Speaking at a pilot project ceremony on child nutrition and maternal health, he stressed the urgent need for clean water, effective sewage treatment, and population control to reduce pressure on the health sector. “Our current system waits for patients to fall sick before responding. It is essentially a sick-care system, whereas a healthy system’s real function should be prevention before disease,” Kamal said. “Prevention is better than cure, we must protect people from falling…

Fintech company Pipe is partnering with Uber in a new effort to help small businesses acquire loans with fewer barriers to access, CNBC has learned.Pipe is teaming up with Uber Eats to add its embedded technology to the company’s restaurant manager app. Eligible restaurants will see pre-approved capital offers from Pipe that are customized based on the businesses’ revenue and cash flow.The new partnership will start rolling out widely this week on Uber Eats, according to Pipe.The Uber Eats Manager app for restaurants, which houses thousands of restaurants in the U.S., functions as a one-stop shop for restaurants to monitor…

Archaeologists work during the sixth excavation of the Bairen Town site in Xingtai City, north China’s Hebei Province, Sept. 10, 2025. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)SHIJIAZHUANG, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) — The sixth excavation of the Bairen Town site in the city of Xingtai kicked off this July and goes smoothly to date.The ruins of Bairen Town are relatively well-preserved, covering an area of four square kilometers. The existing city walls have a circumference of about 8,000 meters, with some sections standing six to seven meters tall.Archaeologists view tiles unearthed during the sixth excavation of the Bairen Town site in Xingtai City, north China’s…

Pakistan strongly condemned Israeli aggression against Qatar on Wednesday, terming it a violation of sovereignty and international law. In a statement, the Foreign Office said the “provocative and reckless” action violated the UN Charter and established norms of interstate relations. The statement reaffirmed Pakistan’s solidarity with the State of Qatar against what it called “unprovoked and unlawful aggression.” Read: Israel targets Hamas in Qatar air strikes Earlier, Israel launched an airstrike in Doha targeting Hamas leaders, killing five members, including the son of senior negotiator Khalil al-Hayya. Qatar said a security officer was also killed. Israel said the attack was in response…

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesUber is tackling a new form of ride sharing: helicopters.The ride hailing company on Wednesday said it will launch Blade helicopter rides on its app as soon as 2026 through its partnership with Joby Aviation, an electric air taxi maker.The announcement comes after Joby in August closed its $125 million acquisition of Blade, a helicopter and air transportation company. The deal did not include the company’s medical organ transplant division. Blade has said it chartered at least 50,000 passengers last year from 12 urban terminals.”Integrating Blade into the Uber app is the natural next…

TOKYO: Haruka Kitaguchi can expect a hero’s welcome when she takes to the field at Tokyo’s National Stadium for the World Athletics Championships next week but recent injury woes mean the Olympic javelin champion may struggle to defend her title. The 27-year-old shot to fame in 2023 when her final throw of 66.73 metres in Budapest made her the first Japanese woman to win a world title in a field event. Her celebrity status in Japan reached new heights last year when she repeated the feat in Paris, becoming the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic track and field…