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MADRID: Atletico Madrid beat Villarreal 2-0 to earn their first win of the La Liga season on Saturday. Diego Simeone’s side suffered two defeats and a draw in their opening fixtures but produced a far more impressive display to triumph at their Metropolitano stadium with goals from Pablo Barrios and debutant Nico Gonzalez. The Rojiblancos … Read more
BERLIN: Harry Kane scored in each half as Bayern Munich piled the pain on old foe Hamburg in a 5-0 home win on Saturday. Kane brought his Bayern tally to 93 goals in 101 games while Serge Gnabry, Luis Diaz and Aleksandar Pavlovic also scored. Alongside Borussia Dortmund as the only Bundesliga sides to win … Read more
LAHORE: The Punjab government has approved the procurement of 10 airlift drones following the successful deployment of initial units in flood-ravaged South Punjab areas, particularly Multan. Ongoing monsoon floods have displaced over 1.5 million people in the province’s worst deluge in decades. According to the home department, the airlift drones, a technological first for the … Read more
China dominated global politics in the first week of September 2025. First, we had the SCO meeting in Tianjin, and then the Victory Day parade was held in Beijing to celebrate the 80th anniversary of China’s victory against imperial Japan in World War-II. What stood out as the most significant takeaway from this Chinese dominance … Read more
[The Trump administration has sought to block Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates this coming week.
A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group said Saturday that a junta air strike killed at least 19 students, including children, in western Rakhine state. The Arakan Army (AA) is engaged in a fierce fight with Myanmar’s ruling military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swaths of territory in the past year. The Rakhine … Read more
An explosion ripped through a café in Madrid on Saturday, injuring 21 people, three of them seriously, local emergency services said. The blast struck around 3:00 p.m. (1300 GMT) in the Puente de Vallecas district, damaging a café on the ground floor and apartments above, officials added. Deputy mayor Inmaculada Sanz said initial findings point … Read more
[ ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives in Pakistan’s recent devastating floods and announced that its second economic review mission will also assess the disaster’s impact on the economy, as well as the financial requirements for recovery and reconstruction. According to sources, the IMF team will … Read more
The divisive anti-immigrant agitator Tommy Robinson organized what he said was a free-speech festival for his supporters.
One of the boats was carrying mostly students who were returning to town for the start of the new school year, residents of the area said.