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Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, an ally of the former prime minister, Imran Khan, once led Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Source link

A tangle of problems at IndiGo, the dominant carrier, resulted in gridlocked airports across the country. Worse, it was the symptom of an even bigger problem. Source link

A judge has ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported in March and brought back to the US to face criminal charges, from immigration custody.”Since Abrego Garcia’s return from wrongful detention in El Salvador, he has been re-detained, again without lawful authority,” Judge Paula Xinis wrote in her order.Mr Abrego Garcia was sent to a prison in El Salvador earlier this year, which the US government later admitted was in error. He was returned to the US to face human smuggling charges and has been held since then.Judge Xinis also wrote that the government did…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the latest peace plan draft for Ukraine has been presented to US President Donald Trump – including a proposal on territorial concessions Kyiv may be prepared to make.But Merz highlighted the territorial issue was “a question that must be answered primarily by the Ukrainian president, and the Ukrainian people.””We also made this clear to President Trump,” Merz pointed out.In recent weeks European leaders have worked closely with Ukraine to come up with a new iteration of a peace plan that addresses Kyiv’s interests and concerns.Trump appears to have grown frustrated with the intricacies of the…

The government of Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov has resigned after protesters took to the streets in cities across the country and filled the centre of the capital Sofia on Wednesday night.Zhelyazkov’s dramatic move came ahead of a vote of no confidence in parliament, and 20 days before Bulgaria joins the euro.Protesters had accused his minority centre-right government, in power since January, of widespread corruption. The government had already scrapped a controversial budget plan for next year in response to the demonstrations last week.”We hear the voice of citizens protesting against the government,” Zhelyazkov said in a TV address.”Both young…

Austria has passed a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under the age of 14.The conservative-led coalition of three centrist parties, the ÖVP, the SPÖ and the Neos, says the law is a “clear commitment to gender equality”, but critics say it will fuel anti-Muslim feeling in the country and could be unconstitutional.The measure will apply to girls in both public and private schools.In 2020, a similar headscarf ban for girls under 10 was struck down by the Constitutional Court, because it specifically targeted Muslims.The terms of the new law mean girls under 14 will be forbidden from wearing…

Two new projects on the site of a former oil refinery could create up to 460 new jobs in the coming years, with the help of cash from the UK and Scottish governments.Scottish Energy Secretary Gillian Martin said the announcements by two firms of plans to create jobs shows a “long-term, new industrial future at Grangemouth is achievable”. Scottish biotech firm MiAlgae hopes to create 130 direct full-time jobs over the next five years – and support 180 further posts – by making fish-free Omega 3 supplements using leftover by-products from the whisky production process.With the proposals announced in the…

Celsopupo | Istock | Getty ImagesZealand Pharma on Thursday outlined an ambitious five-year strategy for its anti-obesity portfolio Thursday, spotlighting how growing competition from smaller players is tightening the race for market leaders Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly as more of these medicines near market entry.The new strategy, “Metabolic Frontier 2030,” comes as Zealand shares have dropped 29% year to date as investors are betting the market will fragment, with fewer singular winners than they were 18 months ago at the peak of the weight loss drug frenzy.Ahead of its Capital Markets Day on Thursday, the Danish drugmaker said it now…

Watch: Video shows US military seizing oil tanker off Venezuela coastA US helicopter flies low over a hazy blue sea as it approaches a massive ship. It hovers as camouflaged soldiers holding rifles swing down ropes to the vessel’s deck.The video, released by the US government, shows the latest in a series of escalations in Washington’s pressure campaign on Nicolás Maduro’s government – the seizure of a crude oil tanker.The US claims the tanker is used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran in an “illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations”.Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has called…

Critics say Syria’s fledgling government is hobbling military preparedness as it redoes the country’s forces from scratch. Source link

María Corina Machado reappeared on the global stage as the Trump administration ramped up its pressure campaign against President Nicolás Maduro. Source link

Japan’s government says that the chances of a magnitude 8 earthquake have increased. Scientists can’t predict when one will strike, but it represents a meaningful jump over typical odds. Source link

AFP via Getty ImagesLuis Arce served as the 67th president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025Bolivia’s former president, Luis Arce, has been arrested in La Paz as part of an investigation into alleged graft, the government has said.The investigation relates to when Arce, 62, was economy minister under then-president Evo Morales, who was in office from 2006 to 2019.He is accused of authorising transfers from the public treasury to the personal accounts of political leaders.Arce, who left office last month, is yet to comment but his former colleague María Nela Prada said he was innocent and described the arrest as…

The widening scope of the conflict between the two neighbors presents a challenge to President Trump’s tariff diplomacy, which he has brandished as a peacemaking tool. Source link

Critics say Syria’s fledgling government is hobbling military preparedness as it redoes the country’s forces from scratch. Source link

Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesNvidia is developing software that could provide location verification for its AI graphics processing units (GPUs), a move that comes as Washington ramps up efforts to prevent restricted chips from being used in countries like China.The opt-in service uses a client software agent that Nvidia chip customers can install to monitor the health of their AI GPUs, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Nvidia also said that customers “will be able to visualize their GPU fleet utilization in a dashboard, globally or by compute zones — groups of nodes enrolled in the…

Many single moms and their children are trapped there. She was adamant that her daughter wouldn’t be among them. Source link

Desperate to catch up with Chinese automakers, Ford is redesigning its fleet with a Silicon Valley-style team. Is it too late? Source link

The atmospheric river over the Pacific Northwest brought a deluge to British Columbia, forcing road closures and evacuations in Canada. Source link

Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s AI unit, unveiled plans for its first “automated research lab” in the U.K. as it signs a partnership that could lead to the company deploying its latest models in the country. The AI company will open the lab, which will use AI and robotics to run experiments, in the U.K. next year. It will focus on developing new superconductor materials, which can be used to develop medical imaging tech, alongside new materials for semiconductors.British scientists will gain “priority access” to some of the world’s most advanced AI tools under the partnership, the U.K. government said in…

An undated editorial illustration of Indian rupee cash bills and a stock market indicator board.Javier Ghersi | Moment | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse. Subscribe here.The big storyThe growing pool of investors in India is increasingly attracting global attention — and renewed interest from fund houses. This year, the world’s largest fund house, BlackRock, launched multiple mutual fund schemes in India through Jio BlackRock, marking the U.S. firm’s reentry after its exit in 2018. Reportedly, the world’s fourth largest asset manager, State…

President Donald Trump falsely denied saying he had “no problem” with his administration releasing a video of a US strike on a Venezuela boat that Washington alleges was carrying drugs. He actually said that last week. Source link

Four French men purposely travelled to Australia’s capital city to allegedly carry out a multi-million-dollar heist which included a Swiss-made “Smiley” watch worth A$5m ($3.3m, £2.5m), police say.The quartet came to Australia in October and broke into a property in Canberra, where they allegedly made off with more than 70 items.Luxury handbags, jewellery and high-end watches – including a Richard Mille model with a yellow gold smiley face and pink flamingo – were among the stolen items.Four days after the burglary, the men – aged between 28 and 37 – were arrested at a KFC outlet in Sydney. They were…

The F/A-18 Super Hornets appeared on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city, before circling the gulf for about 40 minutes. Source link