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NEW DEHLI: Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of trying to hack into senior opposition politicians’ mobile phones, after they reported receiving warning messages from Apple. Some of the lawmakers shared screenshots on social media of a notification quoting the iPhone manufacturer as saying: “Apple believes you are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers …

WASHINGTON: Sun­dar Pichai, CEO of Google, criticised Micro­soft’s browser on Monday in a once-in-a generation anti-trust fight with the US government while arguing his company’s browser and internet search were easy to use and secure. Pichai testified in a trial that will determine whether Google acted illegally to maintain its dominance of online search and parts of search advertising. If …

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s snow-capped mountains have lost close to one-third of their ice, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday and urged the world to “stop the madness” of climate change. “The rooftops of the world are caving in,” Guterres said on a visit to the Everest region in mountainous Nepal, struggling from rapidly melting glaciers to witness the devastating impact …

BRUSSELS: Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will be able to buy subscriptions to use the social networks without being tracked for targeted advertising from next month, Meta announced on Monday, to comply with tougher EU rules. Tech titans now face a growing European Union legal arsenal, which was designed to curb how they do business online and demands better …

WASHINGTON: The Association of Pakistani Physicians in North America (APPNA) said on Monday that it’s looking at all angles to determine the cause of an apparent hate-inspired murder of a Pakistani pediatrician in a Texas town, this weekend. Dr Talat Jahan Khan, a physician of Pakistani origin, was stabbed to death in her apartment complex in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday. …

TORONTO: With a tragedy of immense proportions unfolding before the world’s eyes in Gaza, the heat from the conflict is being felt around the world, in all realms; Canada being no exception. Despite being a G7 member and ‘the closest ally’ of the US, Ottawa, is finding it hard to balance its response. On the streets, protests are breaking out …

ANY attempt to express political views using the platform of sports always evokes heated debate. Agreement or disagreement with the express­ed statements and gestures aside; the issue mostly divides people over the use of sport for symbolism, political or otherwise. The debate around this issue has been rekindled in the backdrop of the situation unfolding in Gaza following the events …

THE number of children who have lost their lives during the recent Israeli military campaign over the past three weeks in Gaza has exceeded the annual child mortality rate in armed conflicts worldwide for each of the past four years, Save The Children said. Gaza’s health authorities have reported that over 3,000 children have been killed since October 7. “Decades …

ISLAMABAD: The latest crisis in the Middle East has raised geopolitical risks for commodity markets, but so far its impact on prices has been small, says a World Bank report released on Monday. It said that previous military conflicts in the region often resulted in higher prices and vitality in commodity markets. According to the ‘Commo­dity Markets Outlook’ report this …

GAZA: Israeli forces on Monday attacked Gaza’s main northern city, coming from two sides, as part of a major ground offensive initiated three days earlier. Inside Gaza, the Israeli ground forces fought deadly battles with Hamas fighters. As the Israeli military reported striking over 600 targets with the death toll on the Palestinian side soaring to 8,306, residents of Gaza …