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BBC’s reporting on the killing of several Palestinian journalists in Gaza has been on the receiving end of fierce criticism, with thousands on social media saying the broadcaster is “parroting the Israeli narrative”. Late on Sunday local time, prominent Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh were killed in a drone strike on a press tent near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The strike also took the lives of Al Jazeera staff Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, as well as freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khalidi.  While many around the world mourned their losses, the BBC’s coverage of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies.Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he signed the executive order for the extension, and that “all other elements of the Agreement will remain the same.” Beijing at the same time also announced the extension of the tariff pause, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The previous deadline was set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Had that happened the U.S. could have ratcheted up taxes on Chinese…

StubHub, the ticketing marketplace that spun out of eBay in 2020, has resumed its plans to go public and is now aiming to hold its IPO next month, CNBC has learned.The company originally paused its IPO plans in April as the stock market was reeling from President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs. The decision came after StubHub submitted its prospectus in March indicating it would list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “STUB.”StubHub now expects to kick off its IPO roadshow after Labor Day, Sept. 1, and make its debut later in the month, according to a…

Aug 11, 2025, 04:05 PM ETA Manchester United supporters’ group has postponed a demonstration against the club’s ownership planned for the day of their opening game of the Premier League season.The 1958 had organised a protest march to Old Trafford on Aug. 17, ahead of United’s clash with Arsenal, with banners referring to minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.The 1958 has overseen numerous demonstrations in recent years, principally aimed at unpopular majority shareholders the Glazers, but frustration has now spread to Ratcliffe.The billionaire British businessman, who owns a 28.94% stake in United, has instigated wide — sometimes unpopular — changes since…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — What was intended as a fundraising mission for cancer research has become a nightmare for American teen influencer Ethan Guo, who has been stuck since June in a remote location in Chilean territory in Antarctica. Authorities say Guo landed his small plane illegally after providing false flight plan information to officials who opened an investigation. American pilot Ethan Guo poses for the photographer in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, before his take off from Geneva Airport for attempting a world record solo flight to all seven continents. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP,File) American pilot Ethan…

This week’s inflation data will be huge for markets, and not just for the numbers. Beneath the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ reports on consumer and producer prices will be simmering questions over the data’s validity. Those concerns have accelerated as budget cutbacks have forced the agency to change the way it collects data. On top of that, President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the BLS commissioner after the July nonfarm payrolls data was released raised worries that the bureau could be politicized. Doubt over the accuracy and integrity of the data is a serious issue considering how much BLS work…

KUWAIT: Kuwait has slashed prices on key weight-loss and diabetes medications starting Monday, cutting the cost of the injection “Tirzepatide” (Mounjaro) by 30 percent following a ministerial decree issued in May. Alongside this, prices for the diabetes drug “Wegovy” dropped 37.3 percent, and the obesity medication “Saxenda” was reduced by 20.8 percent—major moves to ease costs for patients battling diabetes and obesity.In a wider effort to improve healthcare affordability, Kuwait’s Ministry of Health announced on Monday that it has reduced and approved new prices for 544 medicines and pharmaceutical products, with discounts reaching up to 78.5 percent. The ministry said…

Project to provide 55,000 housing units • Chinese officials view sites of new labor cities KUWAIT: Minister of State for Municipal and Housing Affairs Abdullatif Al-Mishari led an aerial inspection of the Al-Sabriya city project along with two labor city sites to update a visiting Chinese technical delegation on the scope and objectives of these developments.“Al-Sabriya represents one of the largest housing and development initiatives in northern Kuwait,” he told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).He also highlighted the critical role of the labor cities, which aim to relocate workers from residential and investment areas into fully integrated living environments that meet…

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal bin Said Al-Busaidi, Minister of Interior of the Sultanate of Oman and his accompanying delegation, on the occasion of his visit to Kuwait. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received on Monday, in the presence of Acting Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Yousef Saud Al-Sabah, Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal bin Said Al-Busaidi, Minister of Interior of the Sultanate of Oman and his accompanying delegation, on the occasion of his visit to Kuwait. Sayyid Hamoud conveyed a verbal message from Sultan Haitham bin…

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke speaks at the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair in Paris on June 12, 2025.Mustafa Yalcin | Anadolu | Getty ImagesMicrosoft’s GitHub unit, which is facing a torrent of competition from AI-powered coding tools, is losing its leader, and the company isn’t immediately naming a successor.Thomas Dohmke, who has been CEO of GitHub since 2021, joined Microsoft in 2015 through the acquisition of his prior startup HockeyApp. Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018, and Dohmke moved over to that business as product chief in mid-2021. Months later, he replaced Nat Friedman as GitHub CEO.In…