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Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAn ex-Meta employee sued the social media company on Monday over allegations that its WhatsApp messaging service contained “systemic cybersecurity failures” that potentially compromise user privacy.Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, alleged that Meta retaliated against him after he notified leaders, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, of security issues at the messaging app. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims that after joining WhatsApp in 2021, Baig found security flaws that violated federal securities laws and Meta’s legal obligations related to a 2020 privacy…
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One on September 7, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesThe United States government has already collected tens of billions of dollars from President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs.”But that money — and a lot more — could end up being refunded if the Supreme Court agrees with lower courts that many of the levies on imports from other countries are illegal.How much could that end up being?Anywhere between $750 billion to a whopping $1 trillion, warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a declaration filed with…
DI KHAN: The police and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) killed two terrorists and seized arms and ammunition during an operation in Lakki Marwat on Monday. The operation was carried out on the directives of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa IGP Zulfiqar Hameed, while District Police Officer Lakki Marwat Nazeer Khan personally supervised the effort. DSP Circle Lakki Zafarullah Khan, DSP CTD Israr Khan, SHO Dadiwala, as well as personnel from Elite Force, RRF, DSB, and other units participated in the joint operation. Acting on intelligence reports, security forces moved into the forests of Mash Masti Khani village, where armed terrorists were planning an…
Pakistan on Monday signed $500 million investment deals with two US-based companies. The deals are meant to develop and process critical minerals including rare earth elements, and to expand logistics infrastructure. According to a statement issued from the Prime Minister’s Office, the agreements were signed during a meeting between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and a high-level US delegation that included United States Strategic Metals (USSM) and Mota-Engil, global firms in the mining and infrastructure sectors. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and several federal ministers also attended the meeting. A high level…
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, left, and Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997.Davidoff Studios Photography | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesHouse Democrats on Monday released a screenshot of what appears to be a letter signed by President Donald Trump, which was included in a collection of notes sent to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.The letter features a conversation between Trump and Epstein inside an apparently hand-drawn outline of a woman’s torso.Trump’s signature is located just below the hips of the drawing.Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards”HERE…
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a virtual BRICS Summit and delivers an important address titled “Forging Ahead in Solidarity and Cooperation” on Sept. 8, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called on the BRICS countries to jointly defend multilateralism and the multilateral trading system as he attended a virtual BRICS Summit in Beijing on Monday.”At this critical juncture, BRICS countries, standing at the forefront of the Global South, should act on the BRICS Spirit of openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, jointly defend multilateralism and the multilateral trading system, advance greater BRICS cooperation, and build a…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at an ‘Investing in America’ event in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 30, 2025. Leah Millis | ReutersNvidia CEO Jensen Huang will join President Donald Trump next week on a state visit to the U.K., a person familiar with the plans told CNBC’s Kristina Partsinevelos on Monday.The person asked to remain anonymous in order to discuss the trip.The Nvidia chief is one of several U.S. business leaders who are expected to accompany Trump, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Blackstone CEO Steven Schwartzman, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, according to Sky News,…
The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi addressed a room full of court associates at the start of the new judicial year, addressing not just the corners that require improvement but the steps that the Supreme Court has already taken, now being formalised. There was a heavy emphasis on digitalisation and how to use the available technology in order to make the judicial system even more efficient. The order of the day was how to make the judiciary more efficient and to address the “functioning” of the courts and the “administrative side” of things. The need of the hour, according…
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou reacts after the result of a vote on a motion of no-confidence against the French government at the National Assembly in Paris, France, Jan. 16, 2025. Benoit Tessier | ReutersFrench Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and his centrist minority government were ousted in a confidence vote in France’s National Assembly on Monday.Bayrou was widely expected to lose the motion — that he had called himself — after failing to win support from political rivals on both the right and left for 2026 budget plans aimed at reducing the country’s yawning budget deficit.Losing the confidence vote means President…
A drone photo taken on Sept. 8, 2025 shows a China-Europe freight train departing from the Tuanjiecun Station in southwest China’s Chongqing. From January to July this year, the China-Europe freight train from southwest China’s Chengdu and Chongqing has made over 3,400 trips, transporting more than 280,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of import and export goods. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)A drone photo taken on Sept. 8, 2025 shows a China-Europe freight train departing from the Tuanjiecun Station in southwest China’s Chongqing. From January to July this year, the China-Europe freight train from southwest China’s Chengdu and Chongqing has made over 3,400 trips,…