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BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – OCTOBER 30: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk to a room for a bilateral meeting at Gimhae Air Base on October 30, 2025 in Busan, South Korea. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump has widened his tariff playbook, unleashing a string of warnings and policy moves that affect Beijing’s interests without directly escalating tariffs on Chinese goods. But analysts are hopeful that the recent geopolitical turmoil is unlikely to unravel the delicate U.S.-China trade truce, as Beijing appears to be betting that Trump’s threats will not…

ISLAMABAD: The parliamentary panel has proposed that each MNA be allowed to nominate ten people for Hajj every year. It has also suggested sending a ten-member delegation to Madinah on an official visit every year to offer salutations at the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) mosque. A meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs was held on Monday under the chairpersonship of MNA Shagufta Jamani. During the meeting, the committee recommended that a 10-member parliamentary delegation be sent at government expense to present salutations at Roza-e-Rasool (PBUH). The official delegation will also offer nawafil at Masjid-e-Nabvi and will offer…

The Tencent logo is displayed on the exterior of a building at the company’s headquarters, with a surveillance camera visible in the foreground, on November 30, 2024, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTencent plans to expand its data center footprint in the Middle East, a top executive at the Chinese tech giant told CNBC, as the company looks to boost its cloud computing business outside China. Dowson Tong, CEO of Tencent’s cloud group, told CNBC that the company plans to expand the number of “availability zones,” locations designated as sites for potential clusters…

Students at a tech university in Dublin are enjoying an unexpected perk of artificial intelligence — it’s helping heat their campus.Since 2023, the Technical University of Dublin’s Tallaght campus has been one of a growing number of buildings in the southwest suburban area of the city to be heated by waste heat from a nearby Amazon Web Services data center. Data centers have always generated excess heat, but integration with district heating networks has been slow, as the waste heat produced by these power-hungry facilities is typically too low-temperature to directly warm other buildings. That’s now changing. As the AI…

The twin pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei depart the Ueno Zoological Gardens by truck in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)TOKYO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — The last remaining two giant pandas in Japan on Tuesday left Tokyo’s Ueno zoo for their return to China, marking the first time that there will be no pandas in Japan in around half a century.The twin pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, were transported by truck from the Ueno Zoological Gardens to Narita Airport, where they were scheduled to board a flight back to China.Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei were born…

Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad, Pakistan April 6, 2022. REUTERS ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has laid down a definitive legal principle on tenancy, ruling that after the death of a property owner, legal heirs automatically become the rightful owners and no new rent agreement is required. The court further held that depositing rent in the name of a deceased landlord does not constitute a valid legal payment. Upholding the Sindh High Court’s decision, the ape court maintained the eviction order against tenants, directing them to vacate the shops and hand over possession to…

The United States agrees to impose 15% tariffs on imports from South Korea under a trade deal for the vast majority of South Korean products, seen in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on August 1, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s ruling Democratic Party said it would pass a special act on the U.S. trade deal by end- February, according to Yonhap, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened higher tariffs on South Korean exports. Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said he was raising tariffs on South Korean exports to 25% from the current 15%, citing a delay in…

The General Motors global headquarters in Detroit, Jan. 12, 2026.Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDETROIT — General Motors is set to report its fourth-quarter and year-end earnings before the bell Tuesday.Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $2.20 adjusted expectedRevenue: $45.8 billion expectedThose results would mark a 4% decline in revenue compared with a year earlier and a more than 14% increase in adjusted earnings per share. GM’s 2024 fourth-quarter results included $47.7 billion in revenue, net loss attributable to stockholders of roughly $3 billion, and adjusted earnings before interest…

This photo taken on Jan. 27, 2026 shows a general view at the inaugural meeting of the Chinese delegation for Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Na Yuqi)BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — China announced on Tuesday its delegation for the upcoming Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, comprising 286 members, including 126 athletes.With an average age of 25, the squad will be led by defending Olympic champions Gu Ailing in freestyle skiing and Su Yiming in snowboarding.They will be joined by veterans such as short track speed skater Fan Kexin, freestyle skier Xu Mengtao and figure skating…

Parliamentary panel backs ban, questions why officials enjoy privileges denied to elected ISLAMABAD: A proposal to end dual citizenship for members of the bureaucracy gained momentum on Monday after a parliamentary panel voted in favour of abolishing the practice, with lawmakers also calling for the restriction to be extended to judges. During a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on the Cabinet Secretariat, chaired by Ibrar Ahmed, members backed the proposal to bar civil servants from holding dual nationality. The committee members argued that if parliamentarians were constitutionally prohibited from holding dual citizenship, the same standard should apply to…