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Mohamed Salah has signed a long-term contract extension at Liverpool to bring a conclusive end to months of speculation and conjecture over his immediate future. The Reds announced that the club had reached an agreement with Salah over an extension to his deal. This will see the Egyptian forward remain at Anfield until the summer of 2025. With the biggest contract in Liverpool history, Salah has committed his future to the club by signing a 3-year deal worth £400k-a-week. Salah had entered the final year of his current contract, which was signed in July 2018, but Liverpool and Salah have…

Indian Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully completed the first flight of an autonomous flying wing technology demonstrator from Karnataka’s Aeronautical Test Range at Chitradurga. It marks a major milestone for India’s secretive unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) program, under which the stealth wing flying test bed (SWift) is being developed as a technology demonstrator. In India, the program is linked to the development of the fifth-generation stealth fighter, dubbed the advanced medium combat aircraft, or AMCA. The flight was performed in fully autonomous mode. The aircraft performed flawlessly, including takeoff, waypoint navigation, and a flawless landing. A small…

Airbus announced that China’s top airlines would purchase 292 planes from the European aerospace giant in a $37 billion deal. Airbus has received orders from Air China, China Eastern, China Southern, and Shenzhen Airlines for a total of 292 aircraft. Clearly the Chinese aviation market is on the road to recovery and prosperity. In a statement, Airbus said that once the relevant criteria are met, these orders will be added to the backlog. A total of 2,070 Airbus aircraft are scheduled to be in service by the end of May 2022 with Chinese operators. New generation engines and Sharklets combined…

According to the country’s statistics bureau, Pakistan’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 21.3% from a year earlier in June, marking the nation’s highest inflation in 13 years. In May, the CPI increased 13.8% over last year. The month-over-month increase was 6.3% in June. As a result of removing fuel subsidies in a bid to cut its surplus and secure resumption of an IMF bailout, fuel prices have risen about 90% since end May. In the month of June, the transport sector recorded the largest rise in its index, rising 62.2% when compared to the same period a year earlier. In…

As part of the United Nations’ Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Day and in recognition of the critical role that these enterprises play in post-pandemic recovery, Emirates is empowering MSMEs to pursue growth opportunities through an attractive incentive for new enrolees to the Emirates Business Rewards programme. Starting on 25 June until 10 July 2022, eligible businesses around the world can sign up for an Emirates Business Reward Points account and receive 10,000 points – the equivalent of an Economy Class return ticket between most destinations in the Middle East, Africa/WAIO and Dubai, a city with world-class support resources…

Both days of Sri Lanka’s ongoing cricket test match against Australia, the country’s police and army have removed anti-government protesters from the fort ramparts overlooking the ground at Galle Cricket Stadium. Typically, the public is allowed to hold banners and placards as they watch the match from the fort. These are mostly related to cricket. However, these protesters had held placards asking for the resignation of Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and have as a result been removed, even though the ramparts are public space. Among the authorities’ concerns had been that a protest overlooking the cricket would be caught…

The indigenously developed high-speed expendable aerial target ABHYAS was successfully tested at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur off the coast of Odisha in India. The plane demonstrated high maneuverability during the test flight, as well as its capability to maintain its level at low altitude. A ground-based controller flew the target aircraft on a pre-designated low-altitude flight path, which was monitored by various tracking sensors deployed by the ITR, including a radar and an electro-optical targeting system. ABHYAS is designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of India. Indian…

Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, has become the highest grossing film of 2022 so far after surpassing one billion dollars at the global box office. Tom Cruise’s latest action film is also the most successful in terms of box office revenue of his entire career. Maverick has already made $1.006 billion (£813 million) since its release a month ago, according to Variety. Previously, the biggest film of the year was the Marvel sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which raked in $947m (£772m). Cruise’s biggest hit to date was Mission: Impossible – Fallout in 2018, which made…

In Pakistan’s restive north Waziristan tribal district, two policemen who were escorting an anti-polio vaccination team were killed by unidentified assailants on Tuesday. While on a door-to-door anti-polio vaccination drive in the district bordering Afghanistan, gunmen attacked the team, killing one of its members and two policemen escorting them. The police launched an investigation into the killings. There has been no claim of responsibility for the killings. In recent years, attacks on workers of anti-polio vaccination drives have increased in Pakistan. In March of this year, gunmen shot and killed a female polio worker in northwest Pakistan as she returned…

More than 541.92 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel COVID-19 globally and 6,741,055 have been reported dead, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019. The top 10 countries by the number of reported cases include the USA, India, Brazil, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Italy and Turkey. The tally is based on reports from health ministries and government officials worldwide. According to the latest World Health Organization pandemic report, the number of new…