The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday that an agreement had been signed with Saudi Arabia for the construction of a modern cricket stadium in Jeddah.
In a post on X, the cricket board said the agreement was signed by PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi and Saudi Arabian Cricket Federation (SACF) chief Prince Saud bin Mishal bin Mohammad Al Saud. Naqvi is currently in Saudi Arabia on an official visit.
“For the first time in history, a strategic agreement has been signed between the PCB and…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit Iran and Turkiye from July 3 to July 5, Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi confirmed on Thursday.
Addressing a weekly briefing, Andrabi said Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, cabinet members and senior officials will accompany the premier on his visit.
The FO spokesperson said PM Shehbaz will travel to Iran first to participate in the funeral of late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in US-Israeli strikes on…
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has resumed direct flights between Lahore and Manchester after six years, with the first flight from Punjab’s provincial capital taking off on Thursday.
According to a statement issued by PIA, PK-709 departed from Lahore with 325 passengers on board.
An inaugural ceremony was held at Lahore airport, where PIA Chief Operating Officer Khurram Mushtaq saw off the passengers, the statement said.
Hours ago, the first flight destined for Lahore left Manchester on…
LAHORE: In a case pertaining to blasphemy, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday held that the “mere creation or administration of a WhatsApp group does not, by itself, make the creator or administrator criminally liable for every post made by its members”.
The court issued the directives while denying post-arrest bail to a man accused of uploading and sharing blasphemous content through WhatsApp groups.
Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh passed a detailed judgment on Thursday, dismissing the bail…
LAHORE: At least two people were killed and nine others injured in rain-related incidents across Punjab during the past 24 hours, Rescue 1122 said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the number of deaths from rain-related incidents since June 30 rose to seven, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said.
According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), a fresh monsoon spell across the country was set to begin from July 1 and continue till July 6.
In a statement…
The Knesset approved a bill on Wednesday that seeks to ban the broadcasting of the call to prayer in Israel on loudspeakers, according to media reports.
The Israel Hayom newspaper reported that the Knesset approved the bill in its preliminary reading to tighten law enforcement against what it described as “mosque noise”.
The bill passed 50-36 in the 120-member parliament, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
Introduced by the Otzma Yehudit party, led by National Security Minister Itamar…
As China’s leading DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) prepares for its expected 29.5 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion) Shanghai Star Market listing, the critical question facing investors is whether the firm can convert its cyclical windfall into permanent industry leadership.
The Hefei-based chipmaker enters the market at a uniquely lucrative moment: a global memory shortage driven by surging artificial intelligence computing demand has triggered a massive upcycle in pricing,…
There are many disconnects in financial markets. One of them is Japan’s benchmark 10-year bond yield, which currently stands at just 2.7 per cent despite the country’s large public debt burden – more than 240 per cent of economic output.
Although Japanese bond yields have risen sharply in the past three years, the 10-year yield is slightly lower than that of Germany, whose government debt as a percentage of economic activity is around one-quarter the size of Japan’s.
Another anomaly is the...
A week after the twin earthquake that struck north-central Venezuela, the official toll rose to at least 2,295 dead and 11,267 injured, according to National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez, who has been the main voice for the figures since the disaster. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the country, Gianluca Rampolla, warned that the number "will keep growing" as rescue and debris-removal work advances.
US President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency-related income during 2025, the first year of his second term, according to the annual financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics and released this week. The 927-page document shows that digital assets became the president's main source of income, ahead of his real-estate, licensing and resort businesses.
The fight against transnational organized crime emerged as one of the central themes of Mercosur's 68th summit of heads of state, held on Tuesday in the Paraguayan city of Luque, where several leaders called for building a regional security "architecture" with concrete goals and deadlines. The issue ran through the addresses of the bloc's presidents and those of its associated states, at a summit where Paraguay handed over the pro tempore presidency to Uruguay.
Uruguay's President Yamandú Orsi on Tuesday assumed the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur and set as a priority of his term to "keep modernizing" the bloc and consolidate its trade opening, following the provisional entry into force of the agreement with the European Union. "We want a more modern, more dynamic Mercosur, more open to the world, but above all a Mercosur that produces concrete results for its citizens," he said as he received the rotating presidency from host Santiago Peña of…
Mercosur on Tuesday announced the start of trade negotiations with Japan and reaffirmed its intention to diversify alliances toward Asia during its biannual summit in Asunción, where Paraguay handed over the bloc's pro tempore presidency to Uruguay. The meeting, however, closed without an agreement on the internal distribution of export quotas under the treaty with the European Union, and again exposed the differences between Argentina and Brazil over the bloc's direction.
Left-wing senator Iván Cepeda, who lost Colombia's presidential runoff, announced on Tuesday that he will resort to "peaceful civil disobedience" against the incoming government of Abelardo de la Espriella if the president-elect does not renounce his US citizenship and clarify a series of questions before taking office on August 7. The Pacto Histórico leader, from the party of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, urged his voters to join the measure, which he described as not recognizing the new…
Bringing the government on board as an equity partner may serve to dilute some of the criticism of the AI industry that has developed momentum in recent months.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that at least 20 sites were attacked overnight, with ‘most of them ordinary residential buildings’Defence and security editorThe Kremlin orchestrated a concerted surveillance campaign using drones launched from shadow fleet vessels over an 18-month period which targeted nuclear sites in the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, researchers have said. Continue reading...
Between 1949 and 1976, an estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers and placed for adoption in England and WalesOfficials are “looking at every route” to deport the Rochdale grooming ringleader set to be released from prison today, a minister has said.As Josh Halliday, Hannah Al-Othman and Rajeev Syal report, Andy Burnham, who is set to become PM later this month, is among those who have said the government should consider all options to enable Shabir Ahmed to be deported.There…
Self-improvement app RiseGuide is hiring a ‘Global Charisma Scout’ who will create an index of where on the continent it’s easiest to strike up a conversation.
An EU expert who is on the ground in Venezuela to coordinate the bloc's response to the earthquake told Euronews that "the clock is ticking", adding that the nature of the support provided will shift to focus on medical assistance.
Researchers say Moscow acted with ‘substantial impunity’ in 144 incidents, including over RAF LakenheathThe Kremlin orchestrated a concerted surveillance campaign using drones launched from shadow fleet vessels over an 18-month period which targeted nuclear sites in the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, researchers have said.Analysis by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) of 144 incidents in more than a dozen countries beginning in late 2024 concluded Russian…
NPR's A Martinez speaks with Brad Lander, Democratic nominee for New York's tenth congressional district, about the rise of democratic socialists in the Democratic party.
President Trump took his first flight on the new Air Force One yesterday. The Boeing 747 luxury jet was given to the U.S. by the government of Qatar, raising concerns about ethics and security.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators met separately on Wednesday with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, with "positive progress made," and they agreed to continue discussions, host Qatar said.
The large-scale attack with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones damaged buildings and civilian infrastructure across the city. Many residents took shelter at metro stations.
Last week, a pair of democratic socialists won competitive primary matchups in New York. Another in Philadelphia back in May, and on Tuesday in Denver, it happened again.
[SAnews.gov.za] Kinshasa, DRC -- President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday undertake a high-level African Union (AU) solidarity visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), reaffirming Africa's collective commitment to containing the ongoing Ebola outbreak and strengthening the continent's preparedness for future public health emergencies.
[Nile Post] Uganda is set to receive the first batch of 265 Ugandan nationals being voluntarily repatriated from South Africa, marking the start of a coordinated exercise to facilitate the return of citizens who wish to come home.
[African Arguments] The fishing sector has for generations been dominated by men with women being pushed to household chores. Overall, women in the fishing sector make up over half of the workforce but their roles are limited to processing, small-scale fishing and net-mending and marketing of fisheries.
[CAF] Cape Verde and Congo DR have been praised by Diego Forlan and Hristo Stoichkov after becoming two of the standout African stories of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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