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. PARIS: Limited internet access has returned in Iran, a monitor said Sunday, 10 days after authorities imposed a communications blackout that rights groups have said was aimed at masking a violent protest crackdown that killed thousands. Iran’s president warned that an attack on the country’s supreme leader would be a declaration of war — an … Read more
[ Sector demands neither heavy subsidies nor complex industrial ecosystems; it requires intelligent investment KARACHI: Pakistan’s export narrative remains narrowly focused on textiles and commodity sectors, while one of its most culturally endowed and economically efficient segments languishes in obscurity: handicrafts. This neglect represents a critical failure of policy imagination and a costly missed opportunity … Read more
Zootopia 2. Photo: file Disney’s Zootopia 2 maintained its lead at the China box office for a second consecutive weekend during the January 9-11 frame, earning RMB49.1 million ($6.9 million) and pushing its cumulative total to RMB4.31 billion ($607.2 million), according to Artisan Gateway. Close behind in second place was Maoyan Movie’s crime thriller The … Read more
. South Africa floods. Photo: AFP JOHANNESBURG: South Africa on Sunday declared a national disaster after widespread flooding that destroyed homes and killed dozens, while thousands sought shelter in neighbouring Mozambique. Heavy rains and storms have battered the two southern African countries for weeks, claiming more than 30 lives in South Africa’s northeastern Limpopo and … Read more
Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.
[A 13-minute segment about Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration had been pulled at the last minute by CBS News’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
The trains collided after one of them derailed in the southern province of Córdoba, officials said. Dozens of people were injured.
[ Tariff reforms need to be focused less on delivering immediate results and rather addressing structural constraints in Pakistan’s economy by reducing taxation costs and improving productivity and competitiveness. Photo: file ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s export of goods has declined in the first half of FY26 as exports decreased to $15.2 billion, down from $16.6 billion a … Read more
How a filmmaker captured the breakthroughs that reshaped biology — and produced one of YouTube’s most global hits A quietly extraordinary documentary filmed behind the closed doors of Google DeepMind has exploded into one of YouTube’s most-watched non-fiction releases, drawing hundreds of millions of viewers into the rarefied, high-stakes world of artificial intelligence and the … Read more
. Shark mauls teenage boy in Sydney Harbour. Photo: AFP SYDNEY: A shark mauled a teenage boy in Sydney Harbour on Sunday, police said, leaving him in a critical condition with serious leg injuries. The predator bit the boy, believed to be about 13 years old, in the late afternoon off Shark Beach, New South … Read more