Month: October 2026

Pakistan will open the ODI tri-nation series against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi on Sunday, as the hosts step up preparations for the six-match tournament also featuring England. The opening match will begin at 1pm at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. The three teams will play six league matches, with the final scheduled for October 31. The first three matches will be held in Rawalpindi, while the remaining three, including the final, will take place in Lahore. Pakistan, led by Shaheen Shah Afridi, began preparations on Thursday with a three-hour training session…

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The US Justice Department warned ​Los Angeles County and California election officials they could be liable as abettors of a federal ‌crime if they count mail ballots returned by more than 20,000 people the Trump administration says are probably noncitizens. The warning to the Los Angeles County Assistant Counsel Peter Bollinger came less than three weeks before the November 3 midterm elections and days after the department gave California 48 ​hours to review a list of alleged noncitizen voters or face legal action. On Thursday, the Justice Department sued ​California…

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Pakistan batting coach Michael Smith has said the team will focus on building batting depth and adapting to different playing conditions as it prepares for the 2027 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. With a busy 12-month schedule of ODI cricket ahead, Pakistan aim to develop options across batting positions rather than rely on a handful of key players, Smith told PCB Digital. The upcoming ODI tri-series will be another opportunity to assess the squad, which includes experienced batters Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman, alongside…

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A state court judge in New Mexico ‌on Friday dismissed charges of child sexual abuse against “West Wing” actor and director Timothy Busfield, saying the prosecution did not act fairly and impartially during grand jury proceedings. Judge Joseph Montano ​said prosecutors could pursue new charges against Busfield. The actor has strongly ​denied allegations of improperly touching two young boys, twin brothers, on the ⁠Albuquerque set of Fox TV drama “The Cleaning Lady.” A spokesperson for the Second ​Judicial District Attorney’s Office of New Mexico said the office was evaluating its…

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Missiles struck Yemen’s Aden International ​Airport on Friday, while a Saudi-led military coalition said it had intercepted a ballistic missile headed for the ‌Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil hub that allows exports to avoid the Strait of Hormuz. The coalition said it had also destroyed two cruise missiles over the Red Sea and three drones in Saudi Arabia’s Southern and Riyadh regions. It did not identify the attackers. In Aden in ​southern Yemen, two missiles landed on the airport grounds, the Aden Security Department said, blaming…

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The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. The officials said ‌leaders at the Defence Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not specify who in the White House made the decision or who was responsible for implementing the order. The Pentagon is…

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Clad in black and their faces masked, dozens of militant Israeli settlers burned olive trees ​and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on Friday on a village’s harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that injured at least two people, including a journalist. Some 80 settlers, ‌some of them carrying gas canisters, descended from a hill above a terraced olive grove where villagers from Abu Falah had gathered to pick ripe fruit, a cherished annual tradition in Palestinian life, Reuters witnesses said. The settlers took positions in front of…

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