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Three weeks after flagging his desire to switch allegiance and play for Australia, NBA star Kyrie Irving has been ruled of for the rest of the NBA season.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: A pair of suicide bombers drove two explosive-filled vehicles into a security installation in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday (Mar 4), killing at least 12 civilians including seven children, police and rescue services said.The explosion brought down the roof of a nearby mosque soon after residents had broken their Ramadan fast and the local market was teeming with shoppers, a military official said, asking not to be identified.The official said more militants had tried to enter the military facility after the blast but the attempt was foiled by security forces. Six militants were killed in an exchange…

Arab summit in Cairo adopts Egyptian plan for Gaza’s reconstruction, countering US President Donald Trump’s proposal.

The Hong Kong-based conglomerate that operates ports near the Panama Canal has agreed to sell shares of its units that operate the ports to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., after President Donald Trump alleged Chinese interference with the operations of the critical shipping lane. In a filing, CK Hutchison Holding said Tuesday that it would sell all shares in Hutchison Port Holdings and all shares in Hutchison Port Group Holdings. The two units hold 80% of the Hutchison Ports group that operates 43 ports in 23 countries, including two of the four major ports that exist along the Panama Canal. The…

A woman is believed to be dead after falling overboard on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship on the first day of the ’80s-themed voyage near the Bahamas, her family said.The victim is reportedly Kimberly Burch, the 56-year-old fiancée of Taime Downe, the frontman for the band “Faster Pussycat,” Burch’s family told Fox News Digital.Burch’s sister-in-law, Kellie Burch, said that Downe called their family to share the devastating news, but said her body had not been recovered yet. Passengers had watched Downe’s band perform less than 90 minutes before Burch went overboard, one passenger, Casey Markee, wrote on X on Tuesday. A…

The push for Canada to send more of its oil and natural gas to markets outside of the United States intensified Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump pressed ahead with a 10 per cent levy on energy imports. “This crisis demonstrates the clear and urgent need to build more natural resource infrastructure,” said the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada, which represents conventional oil and gas producers.“A bold and necessary action that the Canadian government should take to respond is to build retaliatory pipelines to diversify our economy to other markets beyond the United States, growing our economic power and…

The Champions League gets serious this week as the round of 16 begins.To get to this point, 160 games have been completed — now there are just 29 left to play. But those 29 are the most consequential matches of the competition, the moments when each team’s key players must step up and perform.But who should we be keeping an eye on? The superstars, sure, but you can’t land the European Cup with stellar names alone. Who are the key figures who have been excellent in the 2024-25 season without generating as many headlines as they should have? (And yes,…

Tropical Cyclone Alfred’s impact is expected to be felt from Wednesday as the system’s “destructive core” bears down on the Queensland coast.The category two cyclone was about 465km east of Brisbane and 430km east of the Gold Coast as of Wednesday morning, moving west at 11km/h.It is expected to make landfall between the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast late Thursday or early Friday, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting the cyclone will maintain its category two intensity as it approaches the coast.The Bureau of Meteorology declared a warning zone between Double Island Point in Queensland to Grafton in NSW,…

“What was once a kind of erotic, playful love poem,” Professor Shapiro said, had “been repurposed to speak to people in the midst of a civil war — in which their loved ones are fighting and dying.”Consider the opening lines of “Sonnet 116”:Let me not to the marriage of true mindsadmit impediments; love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds …The nod to “marriage” might be why it’s a favorite at weddings, said Prof. Michael Dobson, the director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, who was not involved in the discovery. But the commitment to loving someone forever, just…

The sweeping tariffs on Canadian, Mexican and Chinese products that President Trump imposed on Tuesday could strain the system that collects import duties and the government agencies that enforce those fees, trade and legal experts said.Collecting import duties is usually a routine task, but the new tariffs are being imposed on Mexican and Canadian goods, many of which have been imported into the United States duty-free for many years. Adding to the challenge is the sheer volume of goods subject to the new tariffs — U.S. imports from China, Mexico and Canada totaled over $1.3 trillion last year, or about…