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Australian women’s cricketer Alyssa Healy has announced her retirement from international cricket after a career spanning 15 years. Healy said she will not be part of the T20I side but will play her final One Day International and Test matches against India on home grounds. Cricket Australia confirmed that the wicketkeeper-batter will step away from all formats after the upcoming series against India. The 35-year-old began her international career in 2010. She played 295 international matches, scoring more than 7,000 runs. Behind the stumps, she was involved in 275 dismissals. Healy took over full-time captaincy duties in 2023. She remained…

China has strongly condemned the United States’ decision to impose sweeping new tariffs on countries trading with Iran, warning that the move amounts to interference in other nations’ internal affairs and risks serious harm to the global economy. China reacted sharply after Donald Trump announced that any country doing business with Iran would face a 25% tariff on all trade with the United States. Trump described the measure as “final and conclusive” in a social media post late Monday, without explaining its legal basis or how it would be enforced. ‘No winners in tariff and trade wars’ Responding on Tuesday,…

Chinese researchers have developed an innovative computational architecture that enhances computing power nearly fourfold, thereby opening new possibilities in fields like embodied intelligence, edge sensing, brain-inspired computing and communication systems. The Fourier Transform serves as a frequency “translator,” converting complex signals, including sound and images, into frequency-domain representations, which is a fundamental and widely used method across science and engineering. Targeting this universal computational process, researchers from Peking University creatively integrated two novel devices suitable for frequency conversion into a multi-physics-domain architecture, resulting in a versatile hardware system capable of performing operations, including the Fourier Transform. Their breakthrough was published…

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Monday called for advancing full and rigorous Party self-governance with higher standards and more concrete measures. Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while addressing the fifth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in Beijing. Xi urged efforts to confine power to an institutional cage in a more well-conceived and effective manner, and press ahead with the anti-corruption fight with a clearer understanding and stronger resolve, thus providing a strong guarantee for achieving…

China’s commercial space company has successfully completed the first flight and recovery of its suborbital capsule, Lihong-1, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Monday afternoon. It’s the country’s first parachute-assisted recovery of a commercial payload capsule from over 100 kilometers. Developed by CAS Space, Lihong-1 had reached a maximum altitude of about 120 kilometers and skimmed the edge of space. The suborbital trajectory allowed the vehicle to briefly cross the Kármán line, providing minutes of microgravity before re-entering the atmosphere, though it did not achieve Earth orbit like a normal satellite. The mission carried a scaled-down version of a…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday that it is right on time for China and the African Union (AU) to bolster strategic mutual trust, align strategies and deepen strategic cooperation. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks in an interview with Chinese media after he wrapped up visits to the AU, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Lesotho. China and the AU should further strengthen solidarity, jointly address current challenges, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of both China and Africa, and contribute their share to global peace and development,…

Pakistan’s services sector recorded a strong upswing in the first five months of the fiscal year, with exports rising by more than $550 million, driven largely by information technology and allied services. Exports hit $3.83 billion from July to November According to official documents, total services sector exports reached $3.83 billion during July–November. This represents a 16.77% increase compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year. The growth reflects improving annual performance across multiple service categories. November shows sharp year-on-year rise Services exports in November alone stood at $814.2 million. This marked a significant 22.26% increase compared to…

DHAKA: Bangladesh has been in political turmoil since a student-led revolt overthrew former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024, ending her 15-year autocratic rule. The Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people will hold its first elections since the uprising on February 12. Here are the key players in a vote that European Union election observers say will be the “biggest democratic process of 2026, anywhere”. Interim government Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 85, returned from exile in August 2024 at the behest of protesters to lead a caretaker government as “chief advisor”. He will step down after the…

India and the US will discuss trade issues in their next call scheduled for Tuesday, Washington’s newly-appointed ambassador to New Delhi, Sergio Gor, said on Monday, at a time when failure to secure a trade deal has roiled their ties and pushed the rupee to a record low. India will also be invited to join Pax Silica next month, Gor said, referring to a US-led initiative to build a silicon supply chain from critical minerals to semiconductors and AI. Trade talks between India and the US fell apart and Trump then doubled tariffs on Indian goods in August to 50%,…

Six police personnel, including a station house officer (SHO), were martyred on Monday after an improvised explosive device (IED) struck a police armoured vehicle in the Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to police, the blast occurred in the Kot Wali limits of Gomal police station when the police armoured personnel carrier (APC) was on routine patrol duty. The explosion was caused by an IED planted on the roadside, which detonated as the vehicle passed, killing all five personnel onboard. The sixth official succumbed to injuries later. SHO, additional SHO among martyrs Police confirmed that the station house officer…