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Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secured six of the 11 Senate seats from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) as polling concluded on Monday, following a seat-sharing arrangement between the government and opposition, Express News reported. According to unofficial results, PTI won six seats while the opposition alliance, made up of PPP, PML-N, and JUI-F, secured five. Voting was held in the K-P Assembly’s Jirga Hall, where all 145 members cast their votes. Polling started at 11am and continued until 5:30 pm. PTI candidates Murad Saeed, Faisal Javed, Allama Noorul Haq Qadri, and Mirza Afridi won general seats with 26, 22, 21, and…

Jonathan Fitzpatrick, CEO of Subway.Courtesy: SubwaySandwich chain Subway has tapped former Burger King executive Jonathan Fitzpatrick as the company’s latest CEO, effective July 28.The announcement on Monday follows a months-long search for former CEO John Chidsey’s successor. Chidsey retired at the end of 2024 after five years with the company. His tenure included the $9.6 billion sale of the then-family owned chain to private equity firm Roark Capital in 2023.Fitzpatrick joins Subway after spending more than 12 years leading another Roark-backed company, Driven Brands, an automotive services provider. Prior to Driven Brands, he served as Burger King’s chief brand and…

* A copy of “Red Star Over China” displayed at the memorial hall caught the attention of visitors. Written in the late 1930s by Snow, the book offered the world a rare, firsthand account of China at a time when the country was largely misunderstood by the West.* The spirit of Snow’s extraordinary bond with China still lingers in Yan’an’s sun-baked hills. Today, a new generation of global visitors retraces his path — seeing China not through the lens of preconception, but through the clear-eyed wonder of firsthand discovery.* From these voices emerges a shared conviction: the world today still…

A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.  Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMicrosoft has warned of “active attacks” targeting its SharePoint collaboration software, with security researchers noting that organizations worldwide stand to be affected by the breach.The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Sunday in a release that the vulnerability provides unauthenticated access to systems and full access to SharePoint content, enabling bad actors to execute code over the network.CISA said that while the scope and impact of the attack continue to be assessed, the agency warned that it “poses a risk to organizations.”Microsoft…

Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, on Friday, May 23, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that implementing high tariff rates on countries starting August 1 “will put more pressure on those countries to come with better agreements.”Bessent’s remarks suggest that he views President Donald Trump’s planned massive tariffs on top trading partners — which have been postponed until Aug. 1 — as not so much a deadline to ink deals, but as another negotiating tactic to squeeze the impacted countries to acquiesce to favorable terms…

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will travel to the United States next week to participate in high-level events marking Pakistan’s presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York, the Foreign Office said has confirmed. Dar will chair multiple signature events at the UN headquarters, including a high-level open debate on “Promoting International Peace and Security through Multilateralism and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes.” The session aims to reinforce multilateral diplomacy and mediation as key tools for resolving global conflicts. He will also preside over the UNSC’s quarterly open debate on the “Situation in the…

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane departs from Harry Reid International Airport as another airplane taxis in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 15, 2025.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesSouthwest Airlines passengers will fly in assigned seats for the first time on Jan. 27, the carrier told CNBC. Customers can start buying tickets with assigned seats on July 29.The move ends more than half a century of open seating on the airline, a policy that has set it apart from rivals for decades — along with two free checked bags. Both things are changing as Southwest’s leaders seek…

An aerial drone photo taken on July 21, 2025 shows villagers driving transplanters to plant rice seedlings in Yuyao, east China’s Zhejiang Province. Farmers across the country are busy with agricultural production in the farming season around Dashu, or the Great Heat, the 12th of traditional Chinese 24 solar terms falling on July 22 this year. (Photo by Zhang Hui/Xinhua)Farmers harvest marigold flowers in Tengchong, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, July 21, 2025. Farmers across the country are busy with agricultural production in the farming season around Dashu, or the Great Heat, the 12th of traditional Chinese 24 solar terms falling…

Listen to article PESHAWAR: After much ado, 25 opposition lawmakers elected on reserved seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly took their oaths — not in the provincial legislature, which was adjourned earlier in the day due to lack of quorum, but at the Governor House on Sunday evening. With the induction of these new MPAs, the K-P Assembly now finally stands fully constituted almost one and a half years after the February 8, 2024 general elections. The oath-taking of these MPAs has also paved the way for Senate elections for 11 seats that will be held at the provincial assembly today.…

Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesThe latest crypto treasury company is set to hit the public market with an ambitious plan to build the largest public vehicle for institutional exposure to ether.The Ether Machine will begin trading on the Nasdaq Monday through a merger with blank check company Dynamix Corporation. Andrew Keys, the co-founder and chairman of the new company, has committed about $645 million in an anchor investment. The entity is backed by crypto investors 10T Holdings, Electric Capital, Pantera Capital and more. Once the merger is complete, it will trade under the ticker ETHM.The company is the…