Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a key defence deal called the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement” on Friday amid the backdrop of the Middle East war. The agreement will deepen cooperation between the three countries at a time of growing security concerns. According to the deal, an attack against one of the three countries will…
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Earlier this week, Clément Delangue, the CEO of startup Hugging Face — which was recently on the receiving end of a rogue cyber attack by OpenAI’s models — made the somewhat controversial claim that China was winning the…
The incident happened at the Speedway on North Road Street in Elizabeth City, NC, about a 165-mile drive northeast from downtown Raleigh, police say. Street View image from May 2026. © 2026 Google A convenience store employee suffered burns to her upper body when an upset customer doused her with scalding coffee, according to investigators…
Gasgoo Munich- Great Wall Motor (“GWM”) officially put the GWM H10 onto the market on August 5, pitching the new “boxy family hauler” as a fresh contender in the segment. The lineup offers four configurations across both large five- and six-seat layouts, with an official guide price ranging from 209,800 to 231,800 yuan. Marking the…
For years, walking into an English Premier League stadium meant being surrounded by logos for betting companies. That era is ending. Starting with the 2026-27 season, front-of-shirt gambling sponsorships are gone, and clubs are scrambling to fill a revenue gap estimated at £80-100 million collectively. The deals taking shape Everton kicked off the new era…
An independent inquiry into Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades has released further details about the final moments of fallen firefighter Ho Wai-ho, who died in the line of duty while responding to the blaze at Wang Fuk Court last November. An interim report from an interdepartmental fire investigation task force was released by the…
Democratic socialists keep winning primary elections, and Democratic voters are trending in the same direction: Recent polling suggests that a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults now identify as democratic socialists. Most recently, Abdul El-Sayed, who does not identify as a democratic socialist but was endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
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A University of Hong Kong (HKU) virologist has been spared a criminal conviction for assaulting a man and damaging his mobile phone at a railway station last year. Eastern Court on Friday placed Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran on a two-year bind-over order and instructed him to pay HK$800 (US$102) in damages, after he admitted attacking a stranger…
TL;DR: USD/JPY has recovered a third of last week’s intervention-driven losses, but Friday’s payrolls report sets up an asymmetric trade — a strong print faces profit-taking near 160 on intervention risk, while a weak print has a clear, undeterred path back to 155. A Recovery That Faces Its First Real Test USD/JPY has recovered roughly…