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India’s capital, Delhi, overtook Lahore in Pakistan to become the world’s ​most polluted city on Friday, with ‌air quality reaching hazardous levels and visibility dropping as smog blanketed the city of 20 million ​people. Air quality index (AQI) in Delhi was “hazardous” ​at 334, making it the most ⁠polluted major city globally, according to Swiss ​group IQAir, which measures air quality levels ​based on the concentration of toxins An AQI reading up to 50 is considered good with little or ​no health risk India’s official Central Pollution ​Control Board pegged…

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A crash and fire involving a truck and several other ​vehicles in the United Arab Emirates’ ‌Fujairah emirate killed 14 people and injured 30 others, police said on Thursday, in one ​of the UAE’s deadliest road crashes. Fujairah ​Police said the truck driver lost control ⁠of his vehicle shortly before midnight ​on Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Road, near ​the entrance to Fujairah. The truck struck another vehicle, then overturned and hit several vehicles that ​had stopped because of slow-moving traffic, ​police said. A fire broke out in the truck and…

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Oil prices were mixed on Friday, but set for their second weekly decline, as the US plans to continue its Iranian blockade, reducing the chance of renewed large-scale fighting ​that could disrupt Middle East supplies, though attacks on shipping remain a danger. Brent futures were ‌little changed, down 1 cent at $95.41 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) declined by 20 cents, or 0.25%, to $88.52 a barrel. Friday’s declines reversed two days of gains amid a volatile trading week, with earlier hopes for a rapprochement ​of the US-Israel war…

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Microsoft ​services such as Outlook and Teams were disrupted for about 10 hours on Thursday as the tech giant struggled ‌to fix issues with some servers, hitting businesses and government agencies globally that use the popular platforms. In its latest update, Microsoft said efforts to improve serviceability were not progressing as expected. “We’re identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances,” it said. Downdetector, which tracks outages ​by collating status reports from several sources, showed more than 25,000 reports of…

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they targeted ​a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, ‌the first such claim of an attack on American military assets in a Gulf country ​since early September. The Guards said ​the strike was in retaliation for ⁠what they described as an air ​attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran’s ​southern Sirik county, in Hormozgan province, according to Iranian state media. The claim came amid a ​fragile lull in the conflict between ​Iran and the US, which began with US and ‌Israeli ⁠strikes on Iran on…

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President Asif Ali Zardari and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi held an important meeting in Nawabshah on Thursday, discussing the country’s political situation and security matters. Naqvi travelled to Nawabshah on a special aircraft to meet the president at Zardari House, where their meeting lasted nearly an hour. According to sources, the two leaders discussed the possibility of creating new provinces. However, no details emerged about any decision or progress on the matter. The meeting also covered the country’s prevailing political situation and security-related issues. Naqvi left Zardari House after the…

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At least 10 people, including two women, were killed when a passenger vehicle plunged into the Yasin River near Morkah village in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Ghizer district on Thursday evening. According to rescue officials, the vehicle was travelling from Gilgit to Tehsil Yasin when it met with the accident at around 7:30pm and fell into the river. Two other passengers were injured in the incident. Local volunteers rushed to the site after receiving information about the accident and launched rescue operations. They retrieved the bodies and injured passengers from the river. The…

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The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Thursday reduced the price of petrol by Rs3 per litre to Rs332 and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs4 to Rs360, effective November 13, 2026. In a press release, OGRA said the revised prices had been determined under the petroleum products pricing mechanism approved by the federal government. The latest reduction follows Wednesday’s revision, when the government cut petrol prices by Rs3 per litre to Rs335 and diesel prices by Rs7 to Rs364. With the latest cuts, petrol has become cheaper by a…

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Saudi Arabia is pressing the EU to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a terrorist organisation, ​but has yet to overcome European concerns that this could undermine a future peace process, according to six European officials. The campaign reflects ‌a broader effort by Riyadh to increase international pressure on the group, which has been carrying out near-daily attacks on the kingdom in recent weeks after the resumption of war that began more than a decade ago. The Houthis are already subject to EU sanctions, including an arms embargo and asset freezes…

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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday ​that former Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook should replace ‌Jensen Huang as the CEO of Nvidia. “NOW THAT Nvidia CEO JENSEN HUANG, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take ​his place – TIM COOK of Apple,” Trump said on social ​media. “A Legend replaces a Legend!” he added. Cook stepped down after ⁠a 15-year stint as Apple’s CEO in September and is now ​executive chairman at the iPhone-maker. Apple and Cook did not immediately…

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