In what police in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta, police say a suicide bombing targeted a political rally left at least 11 people dead.
According to reports, the bomb detonated as people were leaving the rally, according to government official Hamza Shafaat, who added that another 30 people were hurt.
After the rally was over, Sajid Tareen, a senior leader of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), confirmed that the explosion took place in the car park and that several party members had been hurt.
At Quetta’s Shahwani Stadium, hundreds of BNP-M members gathered to pay tribute to Sardar Ataullah Mengal’s passing on the anniversary.
According to Shafaat, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, his son, who was present, is thought to be safe.
Five people were killed on Tuesday in Balochistan, which is close to Iran’s border, in an additional attack.
No one has yet apologised for the explosions.
The restive Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, has its capital in Quetta. In the area, there are separatist fighters that have launched attacks in the past.
Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest and richest province, but it also has one of the lowest human development indicators, frequently ranking among the lowest.
At least six soldiers were killed earlier that day when rebels attacked the Federal Constabulary’s Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s northwestern province’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa headquarters.
This attack was reportedly the result of a collaboration between a group affiliated with the Pakistan Taliban.
According to the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Israel is committing a genocide.
According to a resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Israel has committed systematic crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide in Gaza.
The group claims that bombardment, starvation, and forced displacement are all ways that the group has stated that it is clear that it intends to drive Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant are wanted on charges of war crimes, according to the International Criminal Court’s assessment, which came months after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for them.
Additionally, an international court of justice case is bringing against Israel for genocide.
What actual outcomes can this fresh accusation produce?
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After the government banned real-money online gaming last month, leaving the world’s richest cricket board scrambling to find a new lead sponsor to replace Indian fantasy sports platform Dream11.
After the central government forbade real-money online games as well as their promotion, including fantasy sports, Dream11, which had signed a three-year contract worth about 3.6 billion rupees ($44m) through 2026, can no longer sponsor the national team.
The Bill 2025 Promotion and Regulating Online Gaming Act was passed last month in India’s upper house of parliament.
Due to cricket’s popularity and the country’s diverse population, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) established a September 16 deadline for new bid submissions.
Although the Asia Cup will begin on September 9 and there will be no front-of-shirt sponsors on the field in the opening week, which includes the marquee game against Pakistan on September 14, the auction is unlikely to remain unsold.
According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the board is seeking 35 million rupees ($397.6k) per match for bilateral matches and 15 million ($170.4k) per match for India’s participation in the International Cricket Council and Asian Cricket Council tournaments in a three-year sponsorship cycle, according to a citing a source with knowledge of the matter.
Over an estimated 140 games in the 2025-28 cycle, the BCCI expects to generate about 4.52 billion rupees ($51.3m), about 940 million ($10.7m) more than under Dream11’s deal, which was 3.58 billion ($40.7m) for the period July 2023 to March 2026 – an uplift of more than 20 percent.
Before Afghanistan’s formidable starting batting duo, Ibrahim Zadran and Sediqullah Atal slammed their own deep batting lineup for an 18-run victory in the first T20 of their tri-series, Ibrahim Zadran and Sediqullah Atal each hit six half-centuries.
In their first match of the tournament, the spin trio of Pakistan’s captain Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, and Noor Ahmad, who took six wickets, limiting Pakistan to 151-9.
After Khan won the toss and was chosen to play for the field, Afghanistan posted 169-5, adding to their 113-run performance against the United Arab Emirates from the previous day.
The tri-series saw the successful defense of totals for the fourth straight game. In a battle between Pakistan and Afghanistan, UAE both lost.
In the tournament’s opening game, Haris Rauf had led Pakistan by 39 runs when the number 10 batter top-scored with 34 not out of 16 balls on Tuesday. After Afghanistan’s spinners had almost sealed the game by squeezing Pakistan to 111-9 in 17 overs, Rauf’s blitz arrived too late.
With two wickets in the powerplay, Afghanistan’s fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi won the game. When Saim Ayub feathered a catch off a misplaced pull shot to the wicketkeeper, the left-armer was dismissed without scoring.
Sahibzada Farhan (18) hit two sixes, but Farooqi’s clean bowling from a delivery that slammed back at the right-handed batter and hit the off-stump prevented Farooqi from getting the better of the two.
After the Afghan spinners bowled from both ends, Fakhar Zaman was unable to convert a successful start of 25 runs from 18 balls. At the non-striker’s end, Khan brilliantly ran out of Salman Ali Agha after slicing an easy catch to short third off Nabi.
Ibrahim Zadran from Afghanistan was one of the two half-centurions in the victory over Pakistan [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters].
Before Mohammad Haris’ run of poor form continued and he holed out deep square leg of Nabi as Pakistan stuttered to 82-6 in the 12th over, Hasan Nawaz was unable to clear Ahmad’s first ball, a low leg side full toss.
After a Pakistani batter’s second error saw him take two wickets from Mohammad Nawaz, Khan rattled Shaheen Afridi’s stumps before Rauf denied Khan the hat trick. Noor then clean-bowled Ashraf off his final ball to end a flawless day.
Before Ashraf’s 4-27 prevented Afghanistan from scoring freely in the death overs, Zadran and Atal had already shared a century.
When Ayub bowled three sparse overs in the powerplay and took Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s wicket (8-1) for the first wicket, both batters joined.
With Rauf and the two spinners Nawaz and Sufiyan Muqeem contributing 95 runs from their combined eight wicketless overs, Zadran and Atal led their partnership well after the powerplay.
As Afghanistan couldn’t accelerate in the final five overs, Zadran and Atal were caught in the outfield while deceiving Azmatullah Omarzai and Nabi with their slower deliveries, picking all four of Ashraf’s four wickets in the final three overs.
After three games, Pakistan and Afghanistan each have four points, while the UAE, which faces Pakistan on Thursday, has none.
A judge in Washington has ordered Alphabet’s Google to share information with rivals in order to promote online competition.
The court’s request to force the internet giant to sell its well-known Chrome browser is also rejected by the decision made on Tuesday.
Sundar Pichai, the head of Google, was accused at a trial in April of worrying that the US Department of Justice’s request for data-sharing measures might allow Google’s rivals to reverse-engineer its technology.
It may take years before Google is required to take legal action in response to US District Judge Amit Mehta’s decision because it has previously stated that it intends to appeal.
Additionally, Mehta has forbid Google from entering exclusive agreements that would prevent manufacturers from installing rival products on new devices.
Google claimed that the only appropriate course of action was to loosen its agreements with device manufacturers, browser developers, and mobile network operators. According to the documents presented at trial, Samsung Electronics, Motorola, and wireless providers AT&, T and Verizon can now load rival search offerings, according to its most recent agreements with device makers.
One of the world’s most successful businesses and its parent country, the US, were involved in the decision, which came after Mehta declared last year that it had an illegal monopoly on online search and related advertising, for five years.
Prosecutors argued in the trial in April for drastic measures to reinvigorate competition and stop Google from limiting its search dominance to artificial intelligence.
Google claimed that the proposals would give away its technology to rivals because they went far beyond what was legally necessary.
Google is suing over its dominance in other markets in addition to the search controversy.
In a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, the company recently announced it would continue to fight a ruling that would require it to overhaul its app store.
In a separate case brought by the Justice Department, where a judge determined that Google holds illegal monopolies in online advertising technology, the company is scheduled to go on trial in September to determine remedies.
The Justice Department’s two cases against Google are just one more example of the US’s wider, bipartisan crackdown on big tech companies, which included those brought on by Amazon and Apple during President Donald Trump’s first term.
Asisat Oshoala, a Nigerian forward, left Bay FC for Saudi Women’s Premier League side Al-Hilal.
The agreement’s terms were not made public. The 30-year-old international from Nigeria signed a two-year deal with Al-Hilal.
Oshoala left Barcelona for Bay FC in the beginning of its 2024 season, where she won two Women’s Champions League titles. In her first year with the San Francisco Bay Area team, she scored a team-high seven goals.
In the 17th minute of a game between Angel City and Bay FC, the 30-year-old scored the club’s first franchise goal on March 17, 2024.
Asisat has been a significant player in Bay FC history, not just because of her physical exertion but also because of the energy, professionalism, and kindness she consistently brought to the field,” according to Matt Patter, the sporting director of Bay on Tuesday.
We are appreciative of everything she contributed to our club during its first season because she is a top player and an even better person.
In Rabat, Morocco, in 2022, Oshoala is awarded the Women’s Award for the African Footballer of the Year. [Abdelhak Balhaki/Reuters]
Oshoala, who won her sixth Africa Cup of Nations title in July, was a member of the Nigerian team that won its 10th African Cup of Nations title. She was also a six-time African player of the year.
Oshoala, who was born in Ikorodu, was also the first African woman to receive the Ballon d’Or award, a title that is given annually to honor the best player in the world.
She was denied the Spain’s Alexia Putellas with the 2022 award. She received her sixth and final African Women’s Player of the Year award in that year.
