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LOS ANGELES: Hollywood’s writers union said its members would return to work as early as this week while they decide whether to approve a three-year deal that provides pay raises and some protections around use of artificial intelligence among other gains. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) leadership voted unanimously to end the strike on Wednesday, the guild said in …

DUBAI: Iran’s Revolu­tionary Guards successfully launched a third military satellite into orbit on Wednesday, state media reported, citing Minister of Comm­unica­tions Issa Zarepour. The Noor 3 imaging satellite orbits at an altitude of 450 kilometres above the earth’s surface and was launched by the three-stage Qased, or messenger carrier, state media said, which launched its predecessor Noor 2 in 2022. …

GORIS: Armenia said on Wednes­day that nearly half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has fled the enclave since Azerbaijan crushed the rebels’ decades-long fight for an independent state last week. Yerevan’s attempts to absorb the sea of homeless and hungry ethnic Armenians come with officials still trying to identify the whereabouts of more than 100 people reported missing in a fuel depot …

An overnight explosion at a warehouse near the airport in Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent, killed one person and injured more than a hundred, authorities in the Central Asian country said on Thursday. “A teenager born in 2006 died,” the Uzbek health ministry said on Telegram, adding that a further 162 had been injured. The emergency situations ministry said powerful lightning had …

NEW DELHI: A 12-year-old girl, who had been raped, was seen on CCTV footage in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain district going door to door seeking help while bleeding and only partially clothed, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. In the footage, no one comes to her aid as she walks around the area for an hour, while one resident is seen shooing her …

Interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on Thursday asserted that Pakistan’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict “is and will remain” the same as it was in the past. “There is no change in our policy regarding Israel … our policy is linked to the rights of Palestinian people,” he said. Pakistan does not have diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv, and …

India imposed a curfew in the capital and some areas of its restive state of Manipur on Thursday, after scores of students were injured in violence following protests against the alleged abduction and murder of two students, authorities said. Ethnic violence has plunged the northeastern state bordering Myanmar into what many security experts describe as an intense civil war fought …

NEW YORK: Donald Trump and his family business were found liable for fraud on Tuesday by a New York judge in state Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit, accusing the former US president of illegally inflating his assets and net worth. The decision was issued by Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York state court in Manhattan. James sued Trump …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Germany on Tuesday signed the first draft of an agreement for the elimination of double taxation on income and the prevention of tax evasion between the two countries. The delegates of both countries met here for the first round from Sept 18-22 to reach broader parameters of the re-negotiations of the treaty. An official announcement said that …

ISLAMABAD: The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) of the United Nations has said 517 tourism foreign direct investment projects were recorded in the Asia-Pacific region between 2018 and 2022, representing $65.1 billion capital investment and creating more than 105,600 jobs. The ‘Tourism Investment 2023’ report released to mark World Tourism Day being celebrated on Wednesday says following a decline in 2020 and 2021, …