China Boycotts Top Art Festival Over Taiwan Exhibition
China said the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea was misrepresenting Taiwan as an independent nation. Beijing claims it as its own.
Polio-hit table tennis star finally boards the Asian Games flight
14-time national champion who stitches clothes by day secures long-awaited sponsorship PESHAWAR: For 14 long years, Abdullah Jan has been Pakistan’s most consistent table tennis champion in the Paralympic arena, and for 14 years the same cruel script has repeated itself. Selected for the national team, packed and ready, only to be told at the … Read more
JI strike over petroleum levy shuts hundreds of markets in Karachi
Party’s Karachi chief says lawyers, traders support strike as most major markets and commercial centres remain closed RAWALPINDI/ PESHAWAR/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: A strike called by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) against the petroleum levy shut hundreds of markets and petrol pumps across Karachi on Thursday, while private schools and lawyers also supported the shutdown, JI Karachi Amir Monem … Read more
Oil Jumps for Fourth Straight Day and Diesel Nears Record High
This week’s renewed strikes by the United States and Iran strain the flow of energy and diminish expectations the disruption will end soon.
U.S. Trade Gap Ballooned in July
[The trade deficit yawned again last month as spending on data centers to feed the A.I. boom drove up imports.
Nvidia Extends A.I. Spending Spree With $12.9 Billion Deal for Hugging Face
[The acquisition of the start-up is an indication of Nvidia’s growing role as Silicon Valley’s central banker and its emphasis on open-source technology.
Vietnam Sentences 11 to Death Penalty in Drug Trafficking Case
The authorities said they uncovered the network after four flight attendants arriving from Paris were found with narcotics hidden in toothpaste tubes.
Japanese researchers develop AI system to detect marine plastic waste
Japanese researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system to better detect marine plastic waste on the seabed, according to local media on Thursday. Researchers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology developed a system called DeepLitterAI that can process data at almost twice the speed of humans, Tokyo-based Kyodo news agency reported, citing … Read more
‘Cocoon — One Summer of Girlhood’ Review: Patriotic Sacrifices
The animated film is inspired by the real-life events of the Himeyuri Corps, who were mobilized, and then abandoned, in Okinawa, Japan, during World War II.
The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine
These Russian drones are more destructive, faster and harder to shoot down than the propeller-driven models that Moscow has used throughout the war.