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Prime minister’s adviser on political affairs Rana Sanaullah has said that the government’s doors remain open for dialogue with the opposition, but made it clear that no political demands can be forced by holding the state hostage. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Sanaullah accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of pursuing a policy of political instability by holding a march on the federal capital using the resources of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government. He said political differences could only be resolved through negotiations, adding that the government had repeatedly urged the…

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Microsoft will unveil on Wednesday a new laptop powered by Nvidia’s chips, seeking ‌to turn Windows into a platform for AI agents to handle tasks such as writing code without having to access the cloud, analysts said. For Microsoft, the move represents a bet that some work that currently takes place in its costly Azure cloud computing data centres can be ​shifted to high-powered Windows machines in businesses and homes, a market where the Redmond, Washington-based firm retains a ​stronghold — and where its customers foot the hardware bills. It…

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French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. “Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can emerge spontaneously,” Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said in a news release. “The chemical reactions they have developed are spectacular.” Kagan is affiliated with Université…

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In an alleged case of custodial torture, a domestic worker in Lahore has accused police officials of subjecting her to violence after she was called in over suspected theft. The woman, identified as Saadia, alleged that Assistant Sub-Inspector Bilal called her to the Shahdara Town police station, where she was questioned over the alleged theft. She alleged that male police officials tied her to a charpoy and subjected her to physical torture. Saadia said she sustained serious injuries as a result of the alleged assault and was allowed to leave,…

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Gold prices in Pakistan fell on Wednesday, in line with a decline in the international market, with the price of gold per tola dropping Rs3,100 to Rs434,436. According to rates shared by the All-Pakistan Gems and Jewellers Sarafa Association (APGJSA), the price of 10-gram gold decreased by Rs2,658 to Rs372,458. On Tuesday, the price of gold stood at Rs437,536 per tola, with no change recorded during the day. In the international market, gold prices declined by $31 to $4,119 per ounce. The price of silver also fell by Rs100, reaching…

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Bulgaria has halted its search for the missing crew of a ship that sank after being hit by a drone on Tuesday about 70 ​nautical miles off its coast, Vice-Admiral Rumen Nikolov of the Maritime Administration ‌Executive Agency told Nova TV on Wednesday. Early on Tuesday, two ships were hit in a drone attack in Bulgaria’s Black Sea exclusive economic zone. One sank and the other was damaged. The crew ​of the damaged ship were rescued, but the crew of the sunken one ​remain missing. Nikolov said the rescue operation…

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Eva Marie Saint, the graceful blonde who delivered two of the most notable film performances of the 1950s in “On the Waterfront” with Marlon ​Brando and “North by Northwest” opposite Cary Grant, has died at the age of 102. Saint died of natural causes at her home ‌in Los Angeles, a statement from her spokesperson said. Saint won an Oscar in her film debut for her portrayal of the virtuous Edie Doyle in director Elia Kazan’s gritty 1954 drama “On the Waterfront,” then changed direction as the spy Eve Kendall…

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Pakistan accounts for nearly 48% of people living in extreme poverty across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (MENAAP) region, with the country’s poverty rate rising sharply over the past six years, the World Bank said in its latest economic update. The World Bank’s October 2026 MENAAP Economic Update said Pakistan’s poverty rate at the $3-a-day threshold increased by 6.4 percentage points between 2018-19 and 2024-25, while poverty measured at the $4.20-a-day threshold rose by 3.2 percentage points. The increase followed a series of shocks, including the Covid-19…

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US soldiers stationed on Japan’s Okinawa have been given a month-long ‌curfew and banned from drinking alcohol while they undergo discipline training after a Marine was alleged to have murdered and robbed a local woman. Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, in a hotel in Naha, the capital of the southernmost ​prefecture, on Saturday and taking her wallet and backpack. Ballard denied the allegations, police said. The case is the ​latest in a string of incidents stretching back years that have fuelled unease…

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Convicted killer Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s effort to execute her by lethal injection last week, foiling the state’s ​first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries, has regained consciousness and is speaking, her lawyers said in a statement on Tuesday. Despite severe injuries to her ‌arms from the insertion of intravenous lines during the aborted execution last Wednesday, Pike, 50, is “still handcuffed and shackled” to her hospital bed while she remains under medical care, her team of public defense attorneys wrote. “Her prognosis remains unclear,…

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