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CHRISTCHURCH: Pakistan will have another go at testing their emerging resources when they take on New Zealand in the five-match Twenty20 International series, which starts at the Hagley Oval on Sunday. Following their group-stage ouster from the recently concluded ICC Champions Trophy, Pakistan decided to pick a host of youngsters for the series and gave Salman Ali Agha the charge to lead in place of regular captain Mohammad Rizwan. In a press conference before the team headed to New Zealand, Salman said Pakistan would look to play a modern brand of cricket which would feature the intent to attack from…

NEW DELHI: England batsman Harry Brook has been banned from the Ind­ian Premier League for two years after he pulled out at the last minute to focus on international cric­ket, local media reported Friday. The 26-year-old, considered a frontrunner to repl­ace Jos Buttler as England’s white-ball captain, was signed to Delhi Capitals for the IPL season beginning next week. Brook also withdrew from his contract with the Delhi side last season after the death of his grandmother. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been informed about Bro­oks’s ban, an unnamed official from the Board of Control for Cricket…

PARIS: Bruno Fernandes netted a hat-trick as Manchester Uni­ted eased to a 4-1 win over Real Soci­edad to reach the Eur­opa League quarter-finals and Totte­nham Hotspur advanced after a 3-1 victory over AZ Alkmaar on Thursday. The second-tier tournament offers both Premier League clubs a chance for a trophy amid lacklustre domestic campaigns and get a welcome bonus of a spot in the Champions League next season. United will face Olympique Lyonnais in the last eight after the French side strolled to a 4-0 win over Steaua Bucharest, and Rangers overcame Fenerbahce 3-2 in a penalty shootout after a 3-3…

LAHORE: The ICC Wo­men’s World Cup Qual­ifier, featuring six teams including hosts Paki­stan, is set to be held here at the Gaddafi Stadium and the LCCA ground April 9-19, the International Cricket Co­u­ncil announced on Friday. The sixth edition of the Qualifier sees teams from Bangladesh, Ireland, Pak­istan and the West Indies compete with Scotland and Thailand in the 15-match league tournament that will decide the two qualifiers for the 2025 Women’s World Cup to be held later this year in India. Pakistan take on Ireland at the Gaddafi Stadium wh­ile the West Indies play Scotland at the Lahore City…

In the span of a week, a hush has descended on higher education in the United States.International students and faculty have watched the growing crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University with apprehension. Some say they are familiar with government crackdowns but never expected them on American college campuses.The elite New York City university has been the focus of the Trump administration’s effort to deport foreigners who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at colleges last year. Federal immigration agents have arrested two foreigners — one of them a student — who protested last year at Columbia. They’ve revoked the visa…

The Trump administration has frequently sparred with South Africa over the legacy of apartheid and criticism of Israel.The administration of President Donald Trump has declared South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool a persona non grata in the United States. In a social media post on Friday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Rasool was “no longer welcome in our great country”. “Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates POTUS,” Rubio wrote, using the acronym for President of the United States. “We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.”…

“This is a storied hall, if there ever was one.” That is how President Donald Trump opened his remarks to the United States Department of Justice, before he launched into a speech that denounced judges, prosecutors and members of his predecessor’s government as corrupt. It was an extraordinary moment that hinted at potential legal action against political rivals. Trump went on to argue that the 2024 election had granted him a mandate to investigate those he felt had committed “abuses” under the presidency of former President Joe Biden. “I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the…

On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick a fight with Big Tech over “AI censorship,” which is seemingly the next phase in the culture war between conservatives and Silicon Valley. Jordan previously led an investigation into whether the Biden Administration and Big Tech colluded to silence conservative voices on social media platforms.…

As businesses race to replace humans with AI “agents,” coding assistant Cursor may have given us a peek at the attitude bots could bring to work, too.  Cursor reportedly told a user going by the name “janswist” that he should write the code himself instead of relying on Cursor to do it for him. “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work … you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly,” janswist said Cursor told him after he spent an hour “vibe” coding with the tool.…

The administration of President Donald Trump has arrested a second student protester and set a deadline for Columbia University, one of the most prestigious campuses in the United States, to cede control of one of its academic departments. In a news release on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security accused Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian student at Columbia, of overstaying her F-1 student visa. The statement explained that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained her for deportation. Another foreign student, Ranjani Srinivasan of India, had her student visa revoked for participating “in activities supporting Hammas”, a misspelling of the…