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PARIS: Lionel Messi’s career seemed complete after he led Argentina to victory at the 2022 World Cup, but the motivation to keep playing is still there for him and his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo as the duo prepare to make history at this year’s tournament in North America. This will be the last dance for Messi and Ronaldo, who will become the first players to appear in six different World Cups, two decades on from their fresh-faced debuts at the finals. They have since become icons far beyond the football pitch, two of the most recognisable people on the planet…

SYLHET: Pakistan captain Shan Masood elected to bowl in the second and final cricket Test against Bangladesh in Sylhet on Saturday, with star batsman Babar Azam returning to the side. Bangladesh handed a debut to white-ball opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim in the second and final Test. Pakistan, trailing 1-0 in the series after a 104-run defeat in Mirpur, left out Imam-ul-Haq to accommodate Babar, who missed the first Test with a knee injury. The visitors also rested Shaheen Shah Afridi, with Khurram Shahzad coming in, while off-spinner Sajid Khan replaced Noman Ali. Bangladesh handed a Test cap to Tanzid, with…

Following the Punjab government’s decision, the Sindh government has also lifted the 8:00pm markets closure restrictions, Dunya News reported on Friday. The Services, General Administration and Coordination Department (SGA&CD) of the Sindh Government has issued a new notification regarding the easing of restrictions. As per the notification, shops, markets, shopping malls, hotels, restaurants, food outlets, wedding halls, and marketplaces across the province, including Karachi, have been exempted from the prescribed closing times. This decision was made to ease the closing-hour restrictions imposed under the Sindh Home Department’s lockdown notification issued on April 10, 2026.

Funeral prayer for martyred police constable Yasir, who was martyred within the jurisdiction of Hasan Khel police station, was held with full state honors at the Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines on late Friday night. Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi, CCPO Peshawar Dr. Mian Saeed Ahmed, officials of the Pakistan Army, the martyr’s family members and a large number of people attended the funeral prayer. A smartly turned-out police contingent presented a salute to the martyr, while Governor Faisal Karim Kundi, police officers, and Pakistan Army officers laid flowers on the martyr’s coffin.

Tehran has “no trust” in the US and is interested in negotiating with Washington only if it is serious, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday, as talks on ending the war remained on hold. All vessels can pass through the Strait of Hormuz except those at war with Tehran, Araqchi told reporters in New Delhi during a visit to attend the Brics foreign ministers’ meeting, adding that vessels wanting to transit should coordinate with its navy. The situation around the key conduit was “very complicated”, he said. Iran effectively shut the strait, which earlier handled about one-fifth of the…

A Chinese-led scientific study has found that global warming is significantly accelerating the bending, migration and reshaping of rivers in the high-altitude Himalayas, offering new evidence of how climate change is transforming one of the world’s most sensitive mountain regions. The findings, part of China’s second comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, were published on Friday in the journal Science. River meandering and migration are among the fundamental processes shaping Earth’s landscapes. The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, often called Asia’s “water tower,” is the source of many of the continent’s major rivers, and changes in its river systems directly affect water security…

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Special Representative, Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing will be in Azerbaijan from May 17 to 18 for the Leaders’ Summit of the 13th World Urban Forum upon invitation, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced

“Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major-country relations?” Chinese President Xi Jinping asked the question during his talks with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, placing a broader historical question at the center of a state visit as an effort to steer the world’s most consequential relationship toward stability. The phrase, repeatedly invoked by Xi in recent years, refers to the theory that conflict often erupts when a rising power challenges an established one. By raising it again, Xi signaled China’s view that strategic competition between Beijing and Washington need…

Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States in autumn this year at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi said

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday briefed the press on the just-concluded meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Beijing and the consensus reached during the visit. During the visit, Xi and Trump engaged in candid, in-depth, constructive and strategic communication on major issues concerning China-US relations and world peace and development, exploring a correct way for the two major countries to get along and reaching a series of consensuses, said Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. “As many media outlets have pointed out,…