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Shah Rukh Khan has unveiled a new poster for his upcoming action thriller King, showing the Bollywood star in a rugged look that combines a gun-toting assassin’s image with a romantic touch. Released on Tuesday, October 27, the poster features Khan wearing a fitted leather trench coat and a black shirt, holding a gun with a thorny rose stem between his teeth. A fiery backdrop adds to the dramatic look. The poster carries the caption, “Aaj phir yaad aaya… Qaatil nahi… Aashiq hoon…” which translates to, “Today I remembered again……

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Israelis began voting on Tuesday in the country’s first general election since the October 7, 2023 attack, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing a closely contested race amid public scrutiny of his wartime leadership and Israel’s rightward political shift. More than 7.3 million people are eligible to vote for the 120-member Knesset, with 37 parties and electoral lists competing. Polling stations opened at 7am local time (10am Pakistan time) and are scheduled to close at 10pm (1am Pakistan time), after which counting will begin and television networks are expected to…

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Microsoft said on Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or more than a quarter of its global workforce, as the technology giant looks to ​contain costs and help fund its massive AI investments. Staffers across the Windows maker ‌would be eligible for the offers, including those working in AI experiences, Copilot, finance, human resources, Xbox and Windows + Devices, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, requesting anonymity as the matter was ​private. Units such as marketing, commercial business and security will be excluded, the…

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King Charles heads to the Caribbean this week on a tour which ​comes against the backdrop of increasingly vocal demands from the region that Britain pays reparations ‌for its role in the slave trade. Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, will first visit the Bahamas and Guyana, before heading to Antigua and Barbuda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the biennial get-together of the international organisation which he heads. ​The tour runs from October 27 to November 4. At a previous meeting in 2022 of ​the leaders of…

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The Indian government’s privacy law, which would require journalists to seek consent from people ‌they write about, amounted to pre-censorship and could lead to newsrooms shutting down, media groups told the Supreme Court on Tuesday, starting the most high-profile challenge against the legislation. The lawsuit comes amid accusations of declining press freedom ​in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014. Critics say many ​mainstream media outlets have not done enough to scrutinise Modi’s government, which has ⁠denied such allegations and says it respects press freedom. A group…

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Days after launching its first folding iPhone, Apple acknowledged on Monday that some of the devices exhibit display problems and ​said it will replace them. Apple started shipping the iPhone Duo last week, ‌with customers around the world lining up for tight inventory after initial online orders sold out in minutes. Analysts have said Apple is likely to face supply constraints because the iPhone Duo, which unfolds like ​a passport booklet, is complex to manufacture. Over the weekend, social media posts showed ​the iPhone Duo with cracks and lines in…

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Thousands of people were evacuated along India’s eastern coast, and some train services cancelled, authorities said on Tuesday, one day before ​a severe cyclone was scheduled to make landfall, bringing gusting winds ‌and heavy rain. In neighbouring Nepal, authorities cautioned tourists against venturing into high-altitude areas as they feared Cyclone Arnab could trigger torrential downpours, snowstorms and avalanches in the Himalayan region from ​Thursday night through Saturday. The risks come at a time when the ​mountainous country is starting to recover from a deadly flash flood ⁠in August, which killed…

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Walter Koenig, who brought humour and grit to the role of starship navigator Pavel Chekov on the classic 1960s sci-fi TV series “Star Trek” and seven subsequent feature films, has died at the age of 90. “My ​heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today,” George Takei, who ‌starred alongside Koenig in the show and was a long-time friend, wrote on Facebook on Monday. Koenig died at his home in Los Angeles, the AP reported, citing his talent agent. “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry picked…

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Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei has said that Iran, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have agreed that security in the Middle East should be ensured by regional countries without foreign interference. Speaking after the first meeting of the four countries in Tehran, Rezaei described the discussions as “very good” and said they had created a positive atmosphere for regional cooperation. “The outcomes we agreed on were that security in the region where we live should be endogenous, meaning it should be achieved by the countries themselves, and…

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Actors Faysal Quraishi and Hareem Farooq have raised concerns over alleged paid negative publicity targeting their Punjabi-language film Mango Jutt, warning that such campaigns could damage both the film and Pakistan’s struggling cinema industry. Quraishi addressed the issue in an Instagram video, questioning the practice of publishing negative reviews without watching a film and arguing that paid campaigns could undermine efforts to bring audiences back to cinemas. He questioned the impact of what he described as paid propaganda, asking how many people were being harmed by those seeking personal gain.…

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