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A staff member inspects trains before operation in Shijiazhuang, north China’s Hebei Province, Sept. 9, 2025. As of the first half of 2025, the Shijiazhuang Metro has operated a total of 2.0083 million train trips, safely transporting 942 million passengers. Initiated in June 2017, the city’s metro system now stretches 78.2 kilometers with 60 stations in service. (Photo by Zhang Xiaofeng/Xinhua)Passengers are seen at a metro station in Shijiazhuang, north China’s Hebei Province, Sept. 8, 2025. As of the first half of 2025, the Shijiazhuang Metro has operated a total of 2.0083 million train trips, safely transporting 942 million passengers.…

Oracle Chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2019.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesJohn DiFucci from Guggenheim Securities said he was “blown away.” TD Cowen’s Derrick Wood called it a “momentous quarter.” And Brad Zelnick of Deutsche Bank said, “We’re all kind of in shock, in a very good way.”That’s how the analysts opened their comments and questions during Oracle’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, as the company’s stock price was in the midst of a 28% after-hours rally. The software vendor had just reported…

Members of the Palestinian Prisoners Committee hold a rally outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Gaza City on July 17, 2023, demanding the Iraqi government to include Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in the exchange for Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov. Majdi Fathi | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAn Israeli-Russian graduate student from Princeton University in New Jersey who was kidnapped by a Shiite militia in Iraq in 2023 has been released from captivity and is now in U.S. custody, President Donald Trump and the student’s family said on Tuesday.Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped by the militia Kataib Hezbollah during…

A three-storey garment factory collapsed during efforts to extinguish a massive fire in Karachi’s New Karachi industrial area on Tuesday, leaving five people, including rescue workers and a cameraman, injured, officials said. The blaze broke out around 6am. in a factory located in Sector 8A, near Sadaat Hotel. Two fire engines reached the site soon after the fire was reported, and more units were called in as the flames intensified. A Fire Brigade spokesperson said the blaze was of high intensity and that 10 fire tenders and a snorkel were engaged in efforts to bring it under control using water…

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the press on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, U.S., September 7, 2025. Annabelle Gordon | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump has asked the European Union to hit China and India with tariffs of up to 100% over the countries’ Russia oil purchases, in a move aimed at turning up the heat on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.The proposal, first reported by the Financial Times, was confirmed to CNBC’s Megan Cassella by two sources familiar with the matter.Trump made the request when he was called into a meeting…

At least 13 people, including five children, died as floods devastated Jalalpur Pirwala, where more than 50 villages have been badly affected by the Chenab and Sutlej rivers. Shops and houses collapsed, thousands of acres of crops were destroyed, and rescue teams struggled to reach stranded populations, authorities said. Relief Commissioner Punjab Nabeel Javed said that due to severe flooding in the Ravi, Sutlej, and Chenab rivers, more than 4,300 villages have been affected. He said that a total of 4.201 million people have been impacted by the flooding in the rivers. Of these, 2.163 million stranded people have been…

Safra Catz, CEO, Oracle makes remarks during the second day of the FII PRIORITY Summit held at the Faena Hotel on Feb. 20, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesOracle shares spiked 27% in extended trading on Tuesday after the database software maker indicated hefty growth prospects due to new cloud contracts, even as earnings and revenue missed estimates.Here’s how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: $1.47 adjusted vs. $1.48 expectedRevenue: $14.93 billion vs. $15.04 billion expectedRevenue increased 12% from $13.3 billion a year earlier during the quarter, which ended on Aug. 31, according…

* Data from the International Trade Center indicate that in 2024, Africa’s trade with the United States totaled approximately 67.4 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for only 5 percent of the continent’s overall foreign trade.* China-Africa trade continues to lead, acting as a stable anchor in Africa’s trade structure. In 2024, bilateral trade reached 295.6 billion dollars, setting a new record for the fourth consecutive year. China has remained Africa’s largest trading partner for 16 straight years.by Xinhua writers Xu Jiatong, Yang JunNAIROBI/BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — As the U.S. tariff storm disrupted Africa’s commercial landscape, the continent has responded by…

The threat of heavy downpours in Karachi has diminished as the deep depression over the Arabian Sea weakened back into a depression and is expected to further downgrade into a low-pressure area within the next few hours, said the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). According to the Early Warning Centre of PMD, the system continues to move west and southwest and will likely weaken further by Wednesday night or Thursday. While the possibility of torrential rain has ended, PMD forecasts light to moderate showers accompanied by thunder in Karachi on Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, several areas of the city received…

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith said Tuesday he would “respond accordingly” if President Donald Trump’s levies are overturned by the Supreme Court, but stopped short of pledging to move them through Congress.The Republican from Missouri said he has worked with the Trump administration “hand in glove” on tariffs, and he himself has “talked with more than 20 different countries in the last two months.””If the courts do upset the apple cart, then we’re going to have to respond accordingly, that’s what’s appropriate and what’s right,” he said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”Smith’s comments came just hours before the…