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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States would continue attacking Iran as long as it tried to control the Strait of Hormuz, and suggested that Tehran was “not serious” about diplomacy.
[President Trump has resumed his approach of big threats against some trading partners and generous pacts with others. Experts see new risks.
Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi faces a balancing act between asserting the independence favored by military reformers and accommodating political input on battlefield strategy.
Veteran actor recalls on-set friendship with Shah Rukh Khan, says Indian star took care of him Actor Javed Sheikh sat down for an interview with Vasay Chaudhry on 21 July. PHOTO: Screengrab Veteran actor Javed Sheikh revealed that he initially refused to accept a fee for his role in the Indian film Om Shanti Om, calling … Read more
The United States and China will hold talks over AI in September, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as the rival superpowers grapple with how to mitigate the risks posed by each other’s increasingly powerful frontier models. The AI talks, a significant outcome of the Trump-Xi summit in May, will likely take place … Read more
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Prosecutors, defence lawyers submit pretrial timeline ahead of Wednesday’s hearing on schedule An image posted on US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account shows Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro onboard the USS Iwo Jima after American military captured him. Photo: Reuters Federal prosecutors and lawyers for former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores … Read more
[ ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved another special allowance for top bureaucracy – the second in four years – and sanctioned Rs1.8 billion budget in the middle of a further extension in austerity measures and a 7% raise for all government employees. The decision was taken during the special cabinet meeting that approved the … Read more
The risk of continued fighting and a threatened blockade in the Red Sea added to uncertainty about the flow of energy from the region.
Immaculately realized and restored, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s short story about a chance encounter on a bridge arrives at Film Forum.