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Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar dismissed earlier Indian accusations of Pakistani attacks as “baseless and misleading” and said Pakistan had not carried out any “offensive actions”.In Pakistani Kashmir, officials said heavy shelling from across the border killed five civilians, including an infant, and wounded 29 others in the early hours of Friday.India’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The fighting is the deadliest since a limited conflict between the two countries in Kashmir’s Kargil region in 1999. INDIA ORDERS X TO BLOCK THOUSANDS OF ACCOUNTS Meanwhile, social platform X in a statement on Thursday said the…

When the Museum of Modern Art debuted in a Manhattan townhouse in 1929, it faced incomprehension from audiences still uncomfortable with abstract art. When the Centre Georges Pompidou inaugurated its inside-out home in Paris in 1977, philosophers denounced the multidisciplinary museum as a shopping center. But something else happened with Tate Modern, bigger than either of them, when it opened in London in 2000: immediate success.In a country with an above-average suspicion of modernism, in a city that had never had a full-scale museum of modern and contemporary art, Tate Modern arrived on a bank of the River Thames at…

Jury selection for Sean Combs’s racketeering and sex-trafficking trial was delayed on Friday over worries that some jurors might get “cold feet” before the start of the high-profile case.Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing the case, expressed concern that if jurors were selected before the weekend, they could grow uneasy and drop off the panel before the trial begins on Monday. The decision came after one potential juror sent an email to the court asking to be left off the panel for “issues of personal well-being,” the defense said.Twelve jurors and six alternates will be selected and sworn in on…

The new pope, Leo XIV, has spent most of his life as a friar in the Order of St. Augustine, a religious community in the Roman Catholic Church. His experience of joining, serving and leading that institution could shape his approach to the papacy.Experts said that a commitment to two elements of Augustinian teaching — missionary outreach and listening widely before taking decisions — would most likely have a particular influence, just as Pope Francis’ identity as a Jesuit guided his papacy. Leo used his first Mass as pope on Friday to call for “missionary outreach,” possibly an early sign…

David Steiner, a former CEO of the nation’s largest waste management company who currently serves on the FedEx board of directors, is poised to take over control of the U.S. Postal Service, becoming the nation’s 76th postmaster general.The announcement of Steiner’s appointment, which drew immediate concerns from postal unions over possible efforts to privatize the USPS, was made Friday by Amber McReynolds, chairperson of the USPS’ Board of Governors, during a meeting of the independent group that oversees the service.”We anticipate that Mr. Steiner will join the organization in July, assuming his successful completion of the ethics and security clearance…

The primary transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area was forced to shut down all trains on Friday morning because of a computer problem, sending commuters scrambling to find alternatives with little notice. Bay Area Rapid Transit, which transports more than 170,000 passengers on weekdays throughout much of the region, said service had been suspended because of a “computer networking” problem. Riders were searching for alternatives, from car pools to local bus services and ferries. The outage came as BART has struggled mightily to attract passengers after the Covid-19 pandemic. Many residents in the tech-driven Bay Area have been…

Lyft CEO David Risher poses for a portrait in New York City, U.S., April 16, 2025. Kylie Cooper | ReutersLyft shares climbed 20% Friday after the ride-sharing company upped its share buyback plan and posted better-than-expected gross bookings.During an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” CEO David Risher said that Lyft isn’t seeing “anything to worry about” despite widespread concerns of a slowing consumer amid ongoing economic uncertainty.”Our team is stronger than it’s ever been, and the consumer demand is absolutely there,” he said.Gross bookings grew 13% from a year ago to $4.16 billion, slightly beating a $4.15 billion estimate from…

CNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports on news regarding Newark Liberty International Airport.

The female complainant in the high-profile world junior sexual assault trial is returning to the stand for the sixth straight day Friday. Since Monday, the 27-year-old woman, whose identity is protected under a standard publication ban, has been under cross-examination by defence lawyers for Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote.All five men have pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual assault stemming from what the Crown alleges was non-consensual group sex in June 2018. McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.The men’s defence…

Sweden’s new national security adviser has abruptly resigned, just a day after his appointment, amid criticism from the prime minister that he failed to disclose information regarding images published years ago on a dating website.Tobias Thyberg, a foreign service veteran who in previous roles served as ambassador to both Ukraine and Afghanistan, had omitted the information during security background checks, the government said.The resignation comes just months after Thyberg’s predecessor in the high-profile job stepped down and was charged with negligent handling of classified information.Thyberg did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on Friday.But in a statement to…