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Stand-in Australian skipper Steve Smith has made the bombshell call to pull the curtains on his One Day International career just a day after his side was dumped from the Champions Trophy by India.Smith was Australia’s best with the bat during Tuesday’s semifinal on a run-poor Dubai wicket, scoring 73.However, it couldn’t help his side as they slumped to a four-wicket defeat thanks to a trademark chase from arch nemesis Virat Kohli.Smith leaves the 50-over game with an impressive 5800 runs at 43.28 with 12 centuries.More to come.

Penang, known as the Silicon Valley of the East, is a major hub for semiconductor manufacturing. It is home to high-tech factories, innovation hubs and research centres, and has already attracted billions in investment from tech giants like Intel, Infineon, Lam Research and Texas Instruments. “Whatever tariff policy (the US imposes) should recognise the fact that it is their own people that will be impacted as well,” Chow noted. With Malaysia being chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year, the chief minister said he hopes an ASEAN-US summit can be held in Malaysia or the US…

In the Syrian capital, Damascus, the country’s new leader has hosted a national unity conference and welcomed foreign dignitaries as crowds gather at cafes, speaking out freely for the first time in decades.But 400 miles away in northeastern Syria, a region beyond the control of the Damascus government, battles that have been going on for years are still raging. Drones buzz overhead day and night while airstrikes and artillery fire have forced thousands to flee their homes.The fight there pits two opposing militias against each other — the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by the United States, and a predominantly…

American manufacturing has been in the doldrums for years, battered by high borrowing costs and a strong dollar, which makes exports less competitive. But there has been a bright spot: billions of dollars flowing into factory construction, signifying that a potential rebound in production and employment is around the corner.The flood of investment has been driven by two major categories of subsidies provided under the Biden administration. One offered incentives for the construction of several enormous semiconductor plants set to begin operation in the coming years. The other supercharged the production of equipment needed for renewable energy deployment.This second category…

Inside Kabul over 3 years after U.S. withdrawal Inside Afghanistan more than 3 years after U.S. withdrawal 04:21 U.S. officials told CBS News that Mohammad Sharifullah is being extradited to the U.S. in connection with the August 2021 Abbey Gate suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, which killed 13 American service members and about 170 Afghans during the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.A senior Defense Department official said Sharifullah was captured roughly 10 days ago in a joint raid between Pakistani intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency. U.S. officials said Sharifullah was one of two masterminds…

China dominates market in metals used in range of products, including those crucial for national security

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Private equity assets under management fell last year for the first time in decades as investors confronting a $3tn backlog of ageing and unsold deals pulled back from committing new funds to the sector.Buyout firms managed $4.7tn in assets as of June last year, down about 2 per cent from 2023, according to a report from consultancy Bain & Co.The decline in assets was the first since Bain began tracking industry assets in 2005. Even during the 2008 financial crisis, the private…

Dr. Bryant Lin stood before his class at Stanford in September, likely one of the last he would ever teach.Just 50 years old and a nonsmoker, he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer four months earlier. The illness is terminal, and Dr. Lin estimated that he had roughly two years left before the drug he was taking stopped working. Instead of pulling back from work, he chose to spend the fall quarter teaching a course about his own illness.Registration for the class had filled up almost immediately. Now the room was overflowing, with some students forced to sit…

President Trump took a defiant victory lap in the House chamber on Tuesday night, using his address to a joint session of Congress to promote the flurry of drastic changes to domestic and foreign policy that his administration has made in just the first six weeks.Delivering the longest address to Congress in modern presidential history, Mr. Trump reprised many of the themes that animated his campaign for president and spent little time unveiling new policies, as presidents traditionally have done on these occasions. He spoke for roughly one hour 40 minutes.“We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations…

Two minor quakes hit Los Angeles Sunday night, and I like to think that they were cosmically connected. The second earthquake was a small rattler (3.9) centered in the San Fernando Valley, just north of where the first quake hit inside the Dolby Theater when “Anora” won best picture. A pleasurable romp about an exotic dancer who runs off with the son of a Russian oligarch, “Anora” is the latest of several movies that its writer-director, Sean Baker, has made on sex industry workers. The first one that Baker did on the same topic was “Starlet,” a wistful, charming 2012…