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Showbiz personalities have expressed rage and sympathies with the atrocious murder of Pakistani TikToker in Islamabad. They have called upon the authorities to extend severe punishment to her murderer. As per reports which emerged earlier, a person barged into the residence of Sana Yousaf and shot her two bullets and then fled. The victim’s mother filed a case on her behalf. The accused Umer Hayat has been arrested from Faisalabad. “He is also a TikToker who wanted to befriend Sana but faced constant rejection and then did that gruesome act,” the capital police chief said. Famous celebrities have talked about…

Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Amazon is completing construction of a “humanoid park,” an indoor obstacle course at one of the company’s San Francisco, California offices, where it will soon test such robots, the report added. The company is developing the artificial intelligence software that would power such robots, the report said, adding that Amazon plans to use hardware from other firms in its tests, for…

Reddit (RDDT.N) sued the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic on Wednesday, accusing it of stealing data from the social media discussion website to train its AI models despite publicly assuring it wouldn’t. The complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court is the latest battle over AI companies’ alleged unauthorized use of third-party content. Anthropic’s backers include Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O). “We disagree with Reddit’s claims and will defend ourselves vigorously,” an Anthropic spokesperson said. According to the complaint, Anthropic has resisted entering a licensing agreement even as it trained its Claude chatbot on Reddit content, despite assuring last…

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met with Yohei Kono, president of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade (JAPIT), on Wednesday in Beijing. Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, expressed great appreciation for Kono’s long-term commitment to the China-Japan friendship and stressed the significance of people-to-people exchanges in the current international situation. Wang said that China has attached importance to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s recent statement that Japan should draw profound lessons from history and refrain…

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met with Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, special envoy of the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to China, on Wednesday in Beijing. Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, said that China-UAE ties have maintained sound development momentum under the strategic guidance of the two countries’ heads of state. China is willing to work with the UAE to provide mutual support on issues concerning each other’s core interests, expand mutually beneficial cooperation in various…

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Beijing on Wednesday. Congratulating Lukashenko again on his reelection as the president of Belarus, Xi said the two countries are true friends and good partners, treating each other with sincerity and trust. Noting China and Belarus share enduring traditional friendship, formidable political mutual trust and growing cooperation in all fields, Xi said China has always viewed and developed China-Belarus relations from a strategic and a long-term perspective. Xi said China is willing to work with Belarus to promote the steady development of bilateral ties and win-win cooperation. He called…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to ensure the full implementation of all previously agreed economic conditions — not just at the federal level, but across all provincial budgets as well. According to sources familiar with the matter, the IMF has made it clear that provincial governments will have to take steps to reduce expenses to align their fiscal plans with the broader national reform agenda under the Fund’s ongoing program. The demand comes as part of the IMF’s push for stronger fiscal discipline, economic transparency, and growth-oriented governance. Key demands from IMF No Energy Subsidies: Provincial governments will not…

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held a wide-ranging press conference on Wednesday, highlighting Pakistan’s recent diplomatic gains in the wake of escalating tensions with India.  He credited Pakistan’s coordinated international outreach for crushing India’s regional hegemony narrative and rallying global support for Islamabad’s position. Global diplomatic drive Dar outlined that the government’s high-level visits, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s trips to Turkiye, Iran, and Tajikistan, as well as Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s delegation to the US, the UK, and Brussels, were critical in countering Indian propaganda. The visit to China on May 19 was a continuation of…

Significant progress has been made in the investigation of TikToker Sana Yousaf’s murder, as the primary suspect, Umar Hayat, has reportedly confessed to killing the 17-year-old social media star after she refused to meet him on multiple occasions. According to police sources, Umar Hayat — who falsely presented himself as a wealthy landlord but is actually the son of a retired Grade-16 government employee — travelled from Faisalabad to Islamabad twice in a rented luxury SUV to try and meet Sana. Murder motivated by rejection On May 29, the day of Sana’s birthday, Hayat arrived at her residence with cake…

MAKKAH: More than a million worshippers were set to join Islam’s most important rite under a beating sun as the Hajj pilgrimage kicked off Wednesday, with authorities scrambling to avoid last year’s 1,000-plus deaths in sweltering heat. In temperatures that are expected to climb to more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), robed pilgrims will slowly circle the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site – the black cubic structure at the centre of Makkah Grand Mosque. About 1.4 million pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead of the multi-day hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam that must be performed at…