Year: 2026

Three generations of an Armenian-Christian family were driving home in Baghdad in April 2003 ‌when US Marines in a firefight with Iraqi forces fired on their cars, killing three men. Almost a decade later, two women who survived the attack sat down in their Glendale, California, living room with one of the Marines who pulled the trigger. That ​encounter serves as the climax of “Atonement,” writer-director Reed Van Dyk’s feature debut, which had its North ​American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this month and opens in theatres on…

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the match officials for Pakistan’s upcoming 12 international matches against Sri Lanka and England, scheduled from October 9 to November 21. Pakistan will host Sri Lanka for a three-match T20I series and a two-Test World Test Championship series. Between the two series, Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka will feature in a seven-match ODI tri-series in Rawalpindi and Lahore from October 18 to 31. Former New Zealand Test cricketer and ICC Elite Panel match referee Jeffrey Crowe will lead the playing control team for…

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Star cricketer Mohammad Rizwan has written a second letter to the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), seeking the return of his mobile phone without further delay, sources said on Tuesday. According to the sources, Rizwan said he had not been formally informed in writing about the inquiry against him, nor had the agency contacted him for any further proceedings. Rizwan said the NCCIA took his mobile phone on August 31 and assured him it would be returned, but he had yet to receive it. He said he had provided…

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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned that no country in the region would be able to sell oil if Iran were prevented from doing so, as tensions with Washington over the Strait of Hormuz continue. “The US and other countries should know … that in a region where we cannot sell oil, no one will sell oil,” Ghalibaf said on Tuesday, according to state-run IRNA. He also warned that no infrastructure in the region would be safe if Iran’s security was not guaranteed, adding that Tehran would respond…

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Uganda’s Tooro kingdom is preparing to crown Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma Nyabongo I as its new king, amid a succession dispute over whether the late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV left behind a son who should have inherited the throne. Kijanangoma, 56, is a familiar figure in Uganda, having spent more than two decades as a broadcaster and editor at the state broadcaster, according to a BBC report. He was formally selected by a 21-member committee of the royal Babiito clan following the death of King Oyo, who…

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For the first time in US history, the number of Black-owned employer businesses crossed 200,000 firms. According to US Census Bureau data, these businesses generated $249 billion in revenues and provided employment to more than 1.8 million people. The growth is also reflected in wages, with a Brookings Institution study, Black employers are reaching new heights, finding that Black-owned employer businesses paid a combined $69 billion in wages in 2023. Black Americans make up 14.4% of the US population and own about 4.6 million businesses. But most of these are…

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Lawyers representing the New York Times and other leading publishers have asked a US federal court to disregard the Justice Department’s intervention in their copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that the Trump administration may be biased in favour of the AI company. The publishers are suing OpenAI for allegedly infringing their copyrights. Earlier this month, the Justice Department filed a statement supporting OpenAI’s defence, arguing that copying copyrighted material without permission to train large language models can be protected under the “fair use” doctrine. In a filing on Monday, the…

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