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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and European Council President Antonio Costa, on the day of the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium June 26, 2025. Yves Herman | ReutersEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday to clinch a trade deal for Europe that would likely see a 15% baseline tariff on most EU goods, but end months of uncertainty for EU companies.U.S. and EU negotiators huddled in final talks on tariffs facing crucial sectors like cars, steel,…

Listen to article Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) announced that it has lost contact with the “Handala,” a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of the group’s mission to break Israel’s blockade. “All communications with the Handala’s crew have been jammed,” the coalition said in a statement posted on its official Telegram channel. “We lost all contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel,” it said, “which means that they could have been intercepted or attacked.” The coalition urged its supporters “to pressure for the safety of the crew,” calling on people to contact their representatives and local…

The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) said on Sunday it has formed an inquiry committee to probe “serious irregularities” during the Fisu World University Games 2025 in Germany, including the reported disappearance of two athletes. The Fisu World University Games is a tournament that brings together students from all over the world every two years to compete across 18 sports. This year, 8,500 students from across the world took part in the event, which was held from July 16 to July 27, according to its website. In a statement issued today, the PSB said Pakistani contingent’s participation in the tournament faced…

* The factory’s early stages required hundreds of engineers and technicians from China to stabilize operations and train local staff. Now, with a largely European workforce in place, collaboration has become part of the plant’s daily rhythm.* “Chinese producers now dominate not only in cell chemistry and systems integration, but also in recycling and life cycle management,” said Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, a renowned German automotive expert.* “This kind of deep industrial cooperation helps anchor bilateral ties beyond politics,” said Michael Schumann, chairman of the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade. “It reflects mutual trust, long-term vision and shared…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan has challenged a Lahore High Court (LHC) order rejecting his bail pleas, contending that prosecution has adopted three different stances to link him with the alleged conspiracy of May 9, 2023 rioting incidents, all of which were rejected by different courts. The PTI founder through his counsel Salman Safdar filed a petition against the LHC order in the Supreme Court. A division bench of the high court led by Justice Shahbaz Ali Rizvi on June 24 held that Imran was allegedly involved in the rioting conspiracy in view of the testimonies of two…

FAA chief Steve Dickson flies a Boeing 737 MAX, from Boeing Field on September 30, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.Mike Siegel | Getty ImagesAfter spiraling from crisis to crisis over much of the past seven years, Boeing is stabilizing under CEO Kelly Ortberg’s leadership.Ortberg, a longtime aerospace executive and an engineer whom the manufacturer plucked from retirement to fix the problem-addled company last year, is set this week to outline significant progress since he took the helm a year ago. Boeing reports quarterly results and gives its outlook on Tuesday.So far, investors are liking what they’ve been seeing. Shares of the…

PUBLISHED July 27, 2025 KARACHI: Literature often arrives before theory finds a name for it. Long before Pakistani writing in English was granted the dignity of critical attention, poets and novelists were already grappling with the dilemmas of belonging, the dislocations of Partition, and the uneven legacies of empire. What was once regarded with suspicion or condescension has become an essential register of Pakistan’s modern literary imagination — a way to reflect on the unfinished stories that history leaves behind. In the New Century: An Anthology of Pakistani Literature in English stands as both an affirmation and an inquiry into…

Staff members check products in process inside a welding workshop at the north China base of FAW-Volkswagen in north China’s Tianjin, July 7, 2025.(Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) — Profits of China’s major industrial firms saw a smaller decline in June 2025, with the manufacturing sector showing significant improvement, official data showed Sunday.Industrial firms with an annual main business revenue of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.8 million U.S. dollars) saw their combined profits reach 3.44 trillion yuan during the January-June period, down 1.8 percent year on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).In June, profits of…

PUBLISHED July 27, 2025 “The cattle and humans drink the same water,” says Mujahid Kaleem, a wildlife officer stationed in a stretch of the Cholistan desert near Rahim Yar Khan. He’s referring to the tobas — traditional rainwater reservoirs that are a lifeline in this arid region. Kaleem gestures toward a nearby toba, where a herd of goats and buffaloes are drinking. Moments later, two young children approach the same spot and fill a bucket to take home. When asked whether the water is boiled before drinking, the reply is terse: “No.” Waryam Maher, a resident of Cholistan, says that…

PUBLISHED July 27, 2025 LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR: It is often said that the end of one thing is just the beginning of another. For one family bidding farewell to a deceased child and multiple others praying for the survival of an ailing loved one, organ donation can be the delicate thread tying together the distant trajectories of death and life. In a heart wrenching yet inspiring story emerging from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a 15-year-old boy from Rustam, Mardan became a symbol of hope and humanity after his untimely death. Jawad Khan, critically injured in a road accident, was declared brain-dead days after battling for…