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PARIS: A court on Thursday sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison over a scheme for the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential run, a verdict that will make the rightwinger the first French postwar leader to serve jail time. The Paris criminal court convicted Sarkozy, 70 … Read more
Wedding videos may be meant as personal keepsakes, but when footage from singer Hasan Raheem’s big day surfaced online, it turned into a cultural showcase of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) that captivated fans across Pakistan. The August wedding of the 26-year-old singer-songwriter was arguably the viral event of the summer, with clips of Raheem in traditional Gilgiti … Read more
PARIS: Ali Akbar knows everyone and everyone knows him: the last newspaper hawker in Paris, he zigzags each day from cafe to cafe, shouting humorous headlines in the heart of the French capital. “France is getting better!” he cries, just one of the headlines he invents to sell his wares round the upmarket streets of … Read more
[The president said his tariffs would range from 25 to 100 percent and would go into effect next week.
ISLAMABAD: Senator Faisal Vawda said on Thursday the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is preparing a strict crackdown on tax evasion, warning individuals and companies that discrepancies between declared income and visible luxury lifestyles will not go unnoticed. According to a post on X, Vawda said if taxpayers show at least a 15 per cent … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Political leaders, human rights representatives, and journalists at a roundtable conference in Islamabad on Thursday announced the launch of nationwide movement against the 26th Constitutional Amendment, and formed a committee to campaign for the movement. The participants of the roundtable described the 26th Amendment as a serious threat to the independence of the judiciary … Read more
Will the boom in A.I. drive up greenhouse gas emissions? At the Climate Forward live event, the chief sustainability officers at Google and Microsoft discuss their companies’ net-zero ambitions.
The president of the Palestinian Authority addressed the U.N. General Assembly by video after the U.S. denied him a visa.
[The United Nations announced a new “global dialogue on artificial intelligence governance,” and a new global A.I. panel on the technology’s risks and rewards.
Her 26-year tenure transformed a curatorial experiment into a global institution. She will depart in April, after a building expansion doubling the museum’s space.
