WTA roundup: Sofia Kenin upsets Daria Kasatkina in Tokyo

Sofia Kenin advanced to the Toray Pan Pacific Open semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 upset of No. 3 seed Daria Kasatkina on Friday in Tokyo. Kenin converted six of 10 break points and eliminated her Russian opponent in 78 minutes. She will meet ninth-seeded Katie Boulter of Great Britain, a 6-2, 6-1 winner against Canada’s […]

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US, EU trade war would only have losers, German finance minister says

WASHINGTON (PAKISTAN POST) – A trade conflict between the United States and the European Union would not see any winner but only losers, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told Reuters in an interview. Lindner said he was following the toss-up US presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris, and saw the risk […]

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Union’s rejection of Boeing offer threatens jobs at aerospace suppliers

Striking workers’ rejection of planemaker Boeing’s latest contract offer has created a fresh threat to operations at aerospace suppliers such as family-run Independent Forge. If the strike by more than 33,000 U.S. Boeing workers persists another month, the Orange County, California supplier might need to cut its operations from five to three days a week […]

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Artists continue to regale audiences at World Culture Festival in Karachi

Artists on Thursday continued to regale audiences with their performances at World Culture Festival on 29th day of the festival in Karachi. The day began with Eurythmy West Mainland’s “The Three Gifts of the North Wind” — a timeless fairy tale drama which enchanted both the young and the young at heart. Children and adults […]

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ITV edits out pro-Palestinian symbol on Big Brother

ITV has edited out a pro-Palestinian symbol from an episode of Big Brother, which could be seen on the T-shirt of a housemate. On Tuesday night’s episode, contestant Ali Bromley was seen wearing a black T-shirt displaying a watermelon in the shape of Israel, while she was in the garden of the Big Brother house. […]

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Zelenskiy rejects UN chief’s plan to visit Kyiv over Russia trip

KYIV (PAKISTAN POST) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected a plan for the UN Secretary General to visit Kyiv due to Antonio Guterres’s attendance at this week’s BRICS summit in Russia, a Ukrainian official said on Friday. Kyiv was enraged by Guterres’s appearance at the event in the city of Kazan on Thursday and […]

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With green camo and combat boots, Indonesia’s new cabinet kicks off army retreat

JAKARTA (PAKISTAN POST) – Wearing military fatigues and black combat boots, the newly-appointed cabinet of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto began a mountain retreat on Friday, in an unconventional bonding exercise involving more than 100 members of his new government. Ministers and their deputies donned caps and camouflage outfits and stood in salute at a parade […]

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Austrian chancellor sees long and rocky road ahead in coalition talks

VIENNA (PAKSITAN POST) – The road ahead in coalition talks between Austria’s two main centrist parties will be long and most likely “very rocky” at times, conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who is leading the talks, said on Friday as they began. The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) won last month’s parliamentary election for the first time […]

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US October nonfarm payrolls seen taking a hit from striking aerospace, hotel workers

WASHINGTON (PAKISTAN POST) – U.S. nonfarm payrolls in October could be reduced by as many as 41,000 jobs amid strikes in the aerospace manufacturing industry and at three hotel chains, government data showed on Friday. The Labor Department’s monthly strike report showed 33,000 Boeing employees were idle at the planemaker’s plants in California, Oregon and […]

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