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Listen to article LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that every time US President Donald Trump talks about stopping the Pakistan-India war, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘wounds are reopened’. “US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that we stopped the war. When the US president says that we stopped the Pakistan-India war, Modi’s wounds are reopened,” he said while inaugrating Pak Business Express and newly upgraded passenger facilities at the Lahore Railway Station. During his address, PM Shehbaz also paid tribute to Pakistan’s Armed Forces for their resilience in the four-day conflict with India, which he described as “short…

Royal Caribbean raised its full-year guidance Tuesday on the back of strong cruise bookings.The company now expects 2025 earnings of between $15.41 and $15.55 per share on an adjusted basis, up from prior earnings per share guidance of $14.55 to $15.55.CEO Jason Liberty noted traveler preferences are evolving, saying there’s an increase in people choosing to vacation more frequently and are opting for experience-driven travel. Royal Caribbean said 75% of consumers report they plan to spend the same amount or more on leisure travel over the next 12 months.”Our experiences are designed to meet these evolving expectations,” Liberty said.Royal Caribbean…

This photo taken on July 29, 2025 shows a scene during the inauguration ceremony of China Changan Automobile Group Co., Ltd. in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. The inauguration ceremony of China Changan Automobile Group Co., Ltd. was held here on Tuesday, marking the beginning of the group’s official operations as the first first-class Chinese centrally-administered state-owned enterprise (SOE) to be headquartered in the municipality. By now, three major centrally-administered SOE automobile groups have been set up in China, namely the FAW Group, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, and China Changan Automobile Group. They are expected to help drive high-quality development in the…

LAHORE: The fifth spell of monsoon rains of the ongoing season is set to begin across Punjab and continue through July 31, prompting alerts and emergency preparations across the province, officials said. According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), heavy rainfall is expected in various districts of northern, central, and South Punjab, including Rawalpindi, Murree, Galliyat, Attock, Chakwal, Mandi Bahauddin, Jhelum, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, Narowal, Sialkot, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Sargodha, Mianwali, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar. The PDMA has warned of potential urban flooding in low-lying areas due to drainage overload. “The monsoon system…

United Airline flight attendants picketed outside Terminal B at Logan Airport, seeking a new contract.John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines flight attendants voted down a new labor contract that called for immediate raises of at least 26% and other quality-of-life improvements, their union said Tuesday.The flight attendants’ last raise was in 2020. Their union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which represents the airline’s some 28,000 cabin crew members, and the airline had reached a tentative agreement in May.”United Flight Attendants today voted to send a strong message to United Airlines management by rejecting a tentative agreement that…

Listen to article The Supreme Court adjourned on Tuesday the hearing of bail appeals filed by former prime minister Imran Khan until 12 August. The PTI founder had approached the apex court after the dismissal of his bail applications in the May 9 rioting cases by the Lahore High Court (LHC). A division bench of the apex court, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi, postponed the hearing on account of general adjournment of Imran’s counsel, Salman Safdar. Advocate Salman Akram Raja appeared before the bench and requested the court to reschedule the hearing for next week and issue notices to…

Smoke stacks from the Hugh L. Spurlock Generating Station are seen in Maysville, Kentucky, on June 12, 2025.Jeff Swensen | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration is seeking to repeal a landmark finding that greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.”This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin told the conservative “Ruthless Podcast.” “Repealing it will be the largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” Zeldin saidThe EPA under the Obama administration issued an endangerment finding…

Starbucks on Tuesday reported its sixth straight quarter of same-store sales declines as the company implements a turnaround strategy.CEO Brian Niccol said in a statement that the company’s comeback is ahead of schedule, based on his past experience, which includes turning around Chipotle Mexican Grill after a series of food-safety scandals.”While our financial results don’t yet reflect all the progress we’ve made, the signs are clear — we’re gaining momentum,” Niccol said in a prerecorded video published with the earnings report. Shares of the company rose 4% in extended trading.Here’s what the company reported for the quarter that ended June 29…

Beneath the blazing summer sun, Abderrahman Talbi surveyed the neat rows of flourishing cannabis blooms in compact fields, reflecting on how his life has changed since he joined Morocco’s burgeoning legal cannabis industry two years ago. Like many farmers in the northern Rif mountains who have long grown the crop illegally, Talbi is relieved that raids and seizures by the authorities are no longer a worry. “I can now say I am a cannabis farmer without fear,” Talbi told Reuters. “Peace of mind has no price.” Abderrahman Talbi, a farmer, checks on cannabis plants at a field near the northern…

Virginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein, walks after the hearing in the criminal case against Epstein, at Federal Court in New York, August 27, 2019.Shannon Stapleton | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday said that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre from her job working in the spa of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.Trump told reporters that Epstein’s poaching of Giuffre in the early 2000s was one of at least two instances in which the notorious sex offender stole a worker from the Mar-a-Lago spa.Giuffre, years later, went public with allegations that she had been sexually abused by Epstein as…