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Officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan said on Saturday that the Torkham border crossing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been reopened for Afghan refugees returning to their country. Speaking to Dawn, Khyber Deputy Commissioner Bilal Rao confirmed that the Torkham border crossing had been reopened earlier today for the resumption of Afghan refugees’ repatriation. Khizer Shah, the spokesman of the Pakistani embassy in Kabul, and Afghan officials also confirmed the development. “Torkham gate is now open for refugees. We welcome our countrymen,” Qureshi Badloon, head of the Information and Culture in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, told Dawn. The repatriation of Afghan families with or without any travel or identity documents was abruptly suspended on October 11 following border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which continued for days before a ceasefire was formalised in Doha on October 19. Pakistan had closed all its borders with Afghanistan for all types of movement. Since then, a large number of return...

Главное управление разведки Минобороны показало уничтожение нефтепродуктопровода "Кольцевой" в Московской области. Важный военный объект был защищен сеткой и охраной, но от взрывов его это не спасло.

Индиец Мани Сингх не был в восторге от своего переезда в Сан-Франциско из Пенджаба в возрасте 19 лет в 2006 году. Сначала он учился в колледже, но бросил учебу после того, как некоторые из его школьных кредитов в Индии не были засчитаны.

Former PTI leader and ex-federal minister Ali Haider Zaidi on Saturday refuted reports of him “planning a political relaunch”, saying that he had no plans of doing so anytime soon. Zaidi was among the top PTI leadership who quit either the party or politics altogether amid a state crackdown on the party following the May 9, 2023 riots, which witnessed military installations being vandalised in protest of Imran’s arrest earlier that day. “Some [are] suggesting that I’m planning a political relaunch. Let me be clear: I am not planning to enter politics anytime soon,” Zaidi said on X. The first reason Zaidi stated for not rejoining politics was that his “financial circumstances and my personal family obligations” would not allow it. “Secondly, there is no politics in a country where the corrupt, the land grabbers, the extortionists, even those with blood on their hands are gifted power through a rigged election, protected by a compromised judiciary, which even today, fails to deliver justice,” he claimed. “When ...

A preliminary examination at the Institute of Forensic Medicine found no match between the remains of the three bodies transferred to Israel and the 11 deceased hostages still in Gaza. Israel was informed in advance that Hamas is not certain the bodies are those of hostages

Crypto debates DeFi forks while AI companies lock trillions of tokens into proprietary training runs, building permanent data set monopolies. The window closes fast. Opinion by: Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger The crypto industry spent a decade evangelizing decentralization. At the same time, AI companies assembled the most valuable monopolies since Standard Oil, and they’re data monopolies that make protocol dominance look trivial by comparison. The AI industry is expected to generate over $300 billion in revenue by 2025, primarily through training models on trillions of tokens scraped from researchers, writers and domain experts.  Bitcoin maxis fought block size wars. Ethereum debated MEV extraction. Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic scraped the entire corpus of human knowledge, locked it inside proprietary training runs and built moats that no amount of capital or talent can overcome. Read more

Crypto debates DeFi forks while AI companies lock trillions of tokens into proprietary training runs, building permanent data set monopolies. The window closes fast. Opinion by: Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger The crypto industry spent a decade evangelizing decentralization. At the same time, AI companies assembled the most valuable monopolies since Standard Oil, and they’re data monopolies that make protocol dominance look trivial by comparison. The AI industry is expected to generate over $300 billion in revenue by 2025, primarily through training models on trillions of tokens scraped from researchers, writers and domain experts.  Bitcoin maxis fought block size wars. Ethereum debated MEV extraction. Meanwhile, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic scraped the entire corpus of human knowledge, locked it inside proprietary training runs and built moats that no amount of capital or talent can overcome. Read more

Bitcoin fell nearly 4% in October as ETF outflows closed out the month, but Bollinger Bands BTC price volatility odds hit record levels. Key points: Bitcoin seals its worst October performance since 2018 as traders flip cautious on the outlook. ETF outflows return as derivatives traders hedge risk despite macro tailwinds. Read more

Bitcoin fell nearly 4% in October as ETF outflows closed out the month, but Bollinger Bands BTC price volatility odds hit record levels. Key points: Bitcoin seals its worst October performance since 2018 as traders flip cautious on the outlook. ETF outflows return as derivatives traders hedge risk despite macro tailwinds. Read more

Специалист по вопросам изменения климата ОО "Екодія" Марина Цимбалюк объяснила, что подготовиться к климатическим изменениям "чрезвычайно трудно". Она подчеркнула, что за последние десятилетия в Украине потеплели все сезоны, но не исключены и аномальные снегопады.

The debate pitting Ethereum versus Solana as rival L1s misses how radically their architectures diverged in 2025. Ethereum evolved into a settlement layer for modular rollups, while Solana doubled down on monolithic throughput. Ethereum abandoned the monolithic-chain race years ago, as its roadmap treats the base layer as settlement infrastructure. At the same time, execution […] The post How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper appeared first on CryptoSlate.

34 года назад генерал Джохар Дудаев подписал указ о суверенитете Чеченской Республики Ичкерия. Этот шаг стал началом длительной борьбы против кремлевской империи — борьбы, которая сегодня продолжается в Украине. Фокус вспоминает, как рождалась независимая Ичкерия, почему ее эксперимент завершился трагедией и может ли Чечня снова заявить о независимости.

Ядерный двигатель на ракете "Буревестник" и подлодке "Посейдон", которыми Путин пугает мир — это возрождение технологии, от которой отказались полвека назад. Блогер Дмитрий Чернышев вспоминает некоторые из безумных атомных проектов прошлого, похороненные по причине их нереалистичности.

Обычно смартфон перезагружается через кнопку питания, но такой способ многим не очень нравится, ведь кнопка со временем изнашивается и могут возникнуть сложности. В то же время часто люди не знают, что Android-смартфтон можно перезапустить и без кнопок.

After countless upheavals throughout history, the revered institution of the university now faces collapse at the hands of AI. If current trends persist, yeshiva students may soon be the only ones left who can read without a machine's help

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed on Saturday he apologised to United States President Donald Trump over an anti-tariff ad featuring former US leader Ronald Reagan and had told Ontario Premier Doug Ford not to run it. Trump announced he would be hiking tariffs on Canadian goods by an additional 10 per cent and terminated all trade talks following what he called the “fake” anti-tariff ad campaign. “I did apologise to the president. The president was offended,” Carney told journalists in the South Korean city of Gyeongju, adding trade talks would restart when the US is “ready”. Carney also confirmed that he had reviewed the ad with Ford before it aired, but said he had opposed using it. “I told Ford I did not want to go forward with the ad,” he said. The ad, commissioned by Ford, an outspoken Conservative politician who is sometimes compared to Trump, uses a snippet of Republican icon and former president Reagan saying that tariffs cause trade wars and economic disaster. Carney also called talks wit...

В Европе разгорелся скандал вокруг женщины, которая называла себя шаманкой и за годы обмана выманила у доверчивых людей десятки миллионов евро. Мошенница убеждала жертв отдавать средства под предлогом борьбы против черной магии и родовых проклятий.

The Greeks understood that there is no consolation in absence, but there is redemption in action. They turned symbolic burial into a ritual that allowed life to go on

Will BTC's painful performance as of late continue in November?

Bullish celebrated its US debut after securing New York’s BitLicense and money transmission license, launching trading across 20 states and partnering with BitGo and Nonco. Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has expanded its bet on Bullish, the digital asset exchange that recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BLSH, acquiring over $5 million worth of shares across multiple ETFs. According to daily trade disclosures from Friday, ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) bought 72,537 Bullish shares, ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) added 21,354, and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) purchased 11,122 shares. The new purchase comes as ARK Invest purchased $8.27 million in Bullish shares in mid-October through two of its funds. The firm has been continuing its accumulation since the exchange’s $1.1 billion NYSE debut, when ARK bought roughly $172 million worth of shares across its funds. Read more