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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday hailed the positive environment in which the council’s annual general meeting (AGM) was held and said the fate of the upcoming Asia Cup would be announced soon. The meeting, hosted by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), comes ahead of the Asia Cup tournament, scheduled to be hosted by India in September. The tournament remains in limbo amid strained India-Pakistan ties following a military encounter in May. On Wednesday, Hindustan Times reported that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), reversing an earlier decision,…

UnitedHealth Group revealed Thursday it is facing Department of Justice investigations over its Medicare billing practices, adding to a string of setbacks for a company that owns the nation’s largest and most powerful private insurer.In a securities filing, the company said that it has started complying with formal criminal and civil requests from the DOJ, and that it reached out to the department after reports of the probes surfaced. UnitedHealth also said it has launched a third-party review of its business policies and performance metrics.The company told CNBC that it expects to complete that review toward the end of the…

LEDs light up in a server rack in a data center. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesWhen it was reported last month that Anthropic’s Claude had resorted to blackmail and other self-preservation techniques to avoid being shut down, alarm bells went off in the AI community.Anthropic researchers say that making the models misbehave (“misalignment” in industry parlance) is part of making them safer. Still, the Claude episodes raise the question: Is there any way to turn off AI once it surpasses the threshold of being more intelligent than humans, or so-called superintelligence?AI, with its sprawling data centers and…

Tourists enjoy local specialties at Kazanqi culture tourism area in Yining City, Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 23, 2025. In recent years, Yining City has revitalized its old town through cultural-tourism integration. The city has been preserving nine heritage sites and over 160 intangible cultural items while upgrading traditional crafts into creative industries. Ancient architecture and residential buildings have been transformed into tourist attractions, creating jobs and bringing vitality to the old town. (Xinhua/Ding Lei)Tourists enjoy cultural performance at Kazanqi culture tourism area in Yining City, Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur…

Listen to article United Nations said Thursday that Taliban authorities were committing human rights violations, including torture and arbitrary detention, against Afghans forced to return by Iran and Pakistan. Large-scale deportation campaigns have led to the return of millions of Afghans to Afghanistan, with over 1.9 million people returning so far in 2025 from Pakistan and Iran — the vast majority from Iran. “People returning to the country who were at particular risk of reprisals and other human rights violations by the de facto (Taliban) authorities were women and girls, individuals affiliated with the former government and its security forces, media workers…

Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks to members of the media in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Na Bian | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNvidia said Thursday that datacenters built with smuggled chips are a “losing proposition” and that it does not support unauthorized products.The statement came in response to a Financial Times report that at least $1 billion worth of its artificial intelligence chips illegally entered China.”Trying to cobble together datacenters from smuggled products is a losing proposition, both technically and economically,” a spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC. “Datacenters require service and support,…

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with President of the European Council Antonio Costa and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who are in China for the 25th China-EU Summit, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, July 24, 2025. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on China and the European Union (EU) to provide more stability and certainty for the world through steady and sound China-EU relations.Xi made the remarks when meeting with President of the European Council Antonio Costa and President of the European…

Listen to article RAWALPINDI: A Pakistan Army major and a sepoy embraced martyrdom while three terrorists belonging to the Indian-backed group “Fitna al Hindustan” were killed during an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan’s Mastung district, the military said on Thursday. According to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the operation was launched on July 23 following reports of terrorist presence in the area. “During the conduct of the operation, own troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location, and resultantly, three terrorists were sent to hell,” the statement said. On 23 July 2025, Security Forces conducted an intelligence based operation in Mastung District,…

Javelin ace Arshad Nadeem could miss two upcoming Diamond League championships next month as he undergoes post-surgery rehabilitation in London, in the hopes of a full recovery ahead of the Tokyo World Athletic Championships this September. The Olympic champion was set to travel to England this month to prepare for the World Championships, ahead of the Diamond League meet in Silesia, Poland on August 16 and Zurich, Switzerland on Aug 27-28. Last week, however, he underwent surgery on his calf muscle to address a recurring injury. The interventional procedure was done by Dr Ali Bajwa at Spire Hospital in Cambridge,…

Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, speaks at a news conference on oceans and sustainable development at the United Nations in New York, June 25, 2013 in this screengrab taken from United Nations TV file footage.UNTV | ReutersGhislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is expected to meet with the Department of Justice on Thursday, NBC News reported.The sit-down, if it happens, would come just two days after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he intended to meet with Maxwell to ask her what she knew about potentially other people who sexually…