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  • US lawmaker warns of shrinking freedoms in Pakistan, cites Imran Khan’s continued incarceration – Arab News

    US lawmaker warns of shrinking freedoms in Pakistan, cites Imran Khan’s continued incarceration – Arab News

    1. US lawmaker warns of shrinking freedoms in Pakistan, cites Imran Khan’s continued incarceration  Arab News
    2. US lawmakers warn Pakistan over transnational repression, hint at possible sanctions  Dawn
    3. US Congress panel to hold hearing on ‘political repression in Pakistan’  The Express Tribune
    4. ‘Mob Violence’ and ‘Repression’: House Panel Hears About Persecution of Religion in Pakistan  The Daily Signal
    5. Azma accuses PTI of pursuing well-planned ‘coercive strategy’  Business Recorder

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  • RØDE Wireless Micro Camera Receiver Announced – Free for Customers

    RØDE Wireless Micro Camera Receiver Announced – Free for Customers

    RØDE has introduced a new on-camera receiver for its Wireless Micro system. The accessory is now available as a free add-on for many users, depending on region and purchase method.

    RØDE has expanded its Wireless Micro system with a new Camera Receiver – a compact dual-channel module designed for use with mirrorless and DSLR-style cameras. While the Wireless Micro was initially geared toward smartphone users, this release extends the system’s compatibility with conventional camera workflows.

    RØDE Wireless Micro Camera Receiver is available free of charge for existing Wireless Micro customers. Image credit: RØDE

    Free of charge for existing and new customers

    The receiver is not available for separate purchase. Instead, it’s being offered free of charge under specific conditions:

    • Existing Wireless Micro users can receive one by registering their product at account.rode.com and covering a flat-rate shipping fee.
    • New customers can add the Camera Receiver to their Wireless Micro purchase for $0 when buying directly from rode.com. (This is not available in the US.)

    What the Wireless Micro Camera Receiver adds

    The new Camera Receiver pairs with up to two Wireless Micro transmitters and features universal compatibility with cameras via its analog output. It includes gain control for level adjustment and supports plug-in power detection, which can help preserve battery life in connected transmitters. Its compact, lightweight design allows it to mount easily to a camera body or rig.

    According to RØDE, the unit is designed and manufactured at its Sydney-based facilities, alongside the rest of the Wireless Micro product line.

    Pricing and availability

    The Wireless Micro system includes USB-C or Lightning transmitters (available in black or white), a compact charging case offering up to 21 hours of total runtime, and Bluetooth® support for iOS via the RØDE Capture app. The system currently retails for $149 USD.

    Always great when existing products get new funcationality: The RØDE Wireless Micro Camera Receiver makes a more versatile system out of the Wireless Micro audio transmission system, which originally only worked with smartphones. Image credit: RØDE

    RØDE says the Wireless Micro Camera Receiver is intended to give users greater flexibility when switching between mobile and camera setups. I’m guessing they also feel the heat from the Chinese competitors which already offer camera receivers as part of their packages for a similar price. The Wireless Micro Camera Receiver unit begins shipping globally on July 15, 2025. No standalone pricing or availability outside the current promotional structure has been announced at this time.

    Do you already use the Wireless Micro system? Would a camera receiver like this improve your setup? Let us know in the comments.


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  • Patterns of type 2 diabetes risk factors using latent class analysis (LCA) model: a population-based study in the South of Iran, Kharameh cohort population | BMC Public Health

    Patterns of type 2 diabetes risk factors using latent class analysis (LCA) model: a population-based study in the South of Iran, Kharameh cohort population | BMC Public Health

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  • Pakistan: 9 dead, 92 injured in rain-related incidents across Punjab province – ANI News

    1. Pakistan: 9 dead, 92 injured in rain-related incidents across Punjab province  ANI News
    2. Nine more die, 92 injured in rain-related incidents in Punjab  Dawn
    3. PDMA issues rain alert across Punjab  Ptv.com.pk
    4. Flood fears mount in twin cities  The Express Tribune
    5. 116 killed, 253 injured in monsoon-related incidents since late June: NDMA  Business Recorder

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  • Microsoft Confirms New Upgrade Deadlines—‘Move To Windows 11’

    Microsoft Confirms New Upgrade Deadlines—‘Move To Windows 11’

    Around 700 million PC owners are now in Windows Limboland. Microsoft’s u-turn on killing Windows 10 support in October has been quashed, and it seems there’s now a free 12-month extension. But it’s not that simple, as Microsoft has just warned.

    The Windows-maker has now told Microsoft 365 users that “although apps such as Word will continue to work after Windows 10 reaches end of support, using an unsupported operating system can cause performance and reliability issues.”

    Forbes250 Million Microsoft Windows PCs Now ‘Vulnerable To Attack’By Zak Doffman

    And here’s the blurry new line. General Windows 10 support is still effectively ending in October, that hasn’t changed. The extensions are only intended to ease the transition.

    Microsoft tells enterprise users that “if your organization is using Microsoft 365 Apps on devices running Windows 10, those devices should move to Windows 11.”

    This isn’t as dire as it might sound. “To help maintain security while you transition to Windows 11,” Microsoft says it will “continue providing security updates for Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10 for three years after Windows 10 reaches end of support.”

    That means you should avoid the worst downsides all the way through to October 2028. But this will be a static version of the apps you’re paying for. Microsoft 365 on Windows 10 “will only receive feature updates” until the following dates:

    • August 2026 for Current Channel (including individuals and families)
    • October 13, 2026 for Monthly Enterprise Channel
    • January 12, 2027 for Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

    ForbesGoogle’s New Android Update Surprises Millions Of Pixel UsersBy Zak Doffman

    That means major changes before the end of the imminent 12-month support extension, which aligns with other warnings from Microsoft and even government agencies that the 700 million users still on Windows 10 should take the free upgrade now.

    At least most of them should. There’s an indeterminate number of PCs — somewhere between 240 and 400 million — that are not eligible to upgrade. And the focus should now be on those to find a way to maintain secure systems.

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  • UK scans 100,000 people in study that could change disease diagnosis – Euronews.com

    1. UK scans 100,000 people in study that could change disease diagnosis  Euronews.com
    2. Biggest human imaging study scans 100,000th UK volunteer  BBC
    3. Husband and wife offer up bodies to complete UK Biobank scan project  The Times
    4. 100,000 volunteers scanned in world-first imaging project  Health Tech World
    5. The world’s largest medical imaging project hits target  Channel 4

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  • UK removes Pakistan from air safety list, allows airlines to reapply for flights

    UK removes Pakistan from air safety list, allows airlines to reapply for flights

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    The United Kingdom has removed Pakistan from its Air Safety List, clearing the way for Pakistani airlines to apply for flight operations to the country, UK’s Air Safety Committee announced on Wednesday.

    Though Pakistani carriers can now apply to operate flights to the UK, each airline will still need to secure the necessary permits from the UK Civil Aviation Authority through a separate application process.

    The move follows years of technical collaboration between the UK’s Air Safety Committee and Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA), with officials confirming that sufficient improvements have been made since Pakistan was first listed in 2021 due to safety concerns.

    The decision is expected to ease travel for over 1.6 million people of Pakistani heritage living in the UK and thousands of British nationals in Pakistan. It may also support increased bilateral trade, which currently stands at £4.7 billion, making the UK Pakistan’s third-largest trading partner.

    The UK’s Air Safety Committee made the decision through an independent, technically-driven safety review process, which found that Pakistan had made the required safety upgrades.

    “I’m grateful to aviation experts in the UK and Pakistan for their collaborative work to drive improvements to meet international safety standards. While it will take time for flights to resume, once the logistics are in place, I look forward to using a Pakistani carrier when visiting family and friends,” said British High Commissioner Jane Marriott CMG OBE.

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  • Prince Harry, Meghan Markle hit with setback amid King Charles peace talks

    Prince Harry, Meghan Markle hit with setback amid King Charles peace talks



    Prince Harry, Meghan Markle hit with setback amid King Charles peace talks 

    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s latest move fires back as the public peace summit with King Charles is dubbed a publicity stunt.

    For the unversed, the Duke of Sussex’s chief of staff and communications director, Meredith Maines, and the Montecito couple’s U.K. spokesperson, Liam Maguire, were photographed with the monarch’s communications secretary, Tobyn Andreae, in London on July 9.

    It was called a ‘first step’ towards reconciliation between Harry and his father, Charles, who is currently undergoing treatment for his undisclosed form of cancer.

    However, royal expert Eric Schiffer called the Sussexes for making a private matter public.

    As per Express, he said, “If this is a peace deal, why does every shutter click crack like a gunshot at the Firm’s credibility, turning a solemn summit into the potential for septic muck reputational carnage?”

    He shared that the monarch kept the meeting low-key, but Harry had “unleashed paparazzi. The royal commentator added, “Charles craves calm; Harry brings carnival barkers with cameras.”

    Eric further shared, “Guess who swaggered away looking regal and who looked like clickbait chaos.”

    He warned the Duke of Sussex not to make the intimate moment into a talk for the media.

    “Crisis comms 101—don’t torch your own olive branch; Harry just napalmed his,” Eic said. 

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  • Ex-Tory minister says Afghan resettlement scheme was ‘most hapless display of ineptitude’ he saw in government – live | Politics

    Ex-Tory minister says Afghan resettlement scheme was ‘most hapless display of ineptitude’ he saw in government – live | Politics

    Good morning. Normally when ministers make announcements in the House of Commons, we know at least some of the detail already because they been well trailed in advance. Yesterday was a rare example of a ministerial statement being used to reveal something utterly surprising and genuinely new (at least to anyone who had not seen the stories that dropped just 30 minutes earlier, when reporting restrictions were lifted). And this was a story about the murky operation of the Deep State. Here is our overnight story, by Dan Sabbagh and Emine Sinmaz.

    Today attention is focusing on who is to blame. And two former Tory ministers are having their say in rival articles in the Daily Telegraph.

    Ben Wallace, who was defence secretary when the leak happened, has used his article to defend going to court to stop the inadvertent release of names being reported. He said:

    I make no apology for applying to the court for an injunction at the time. It was not, as some are childishly trying to claim, a cover up.

    I took the view that if this leak was reported at the time, the existence of the list would put in peril those we needed to help out.

    Some may disagree but imagine if the Taliban had been alerted to the existence of this list. I would dread to think what would have happened.

    Wallace has also been on the Today programme this morning, and he insisted he was not to blame for the injunction being a superinjunction. He said:

    When we applied in August 2023, when I was secretary of state, we didn’t apply for superinjunction. We applied for a four-month injunction, a normal injunction.

    Wallace said it was the court that converted this into a superinjunction (meaning not just that the leak could not be reported, but the very existence of an injunction gagging the media could also not be reported). Wallace claimed he did not know why.

    In his article Wallace largely defends the decisions taken by the previous government, but Johnny Mercer, who was veterans ministers in the same government (but not in the MoD – he worked out of the Cabinet Office), is very critical of the way the whole Afghan resettlement programme was handled. In his Telegraph article he said:

    Whilst there will no doubt be a rush to blame the individual who sent it (I know who he is), it would be entirely unfair and wrong to do so. Because I can honestly say this whole farcical process has been the most hapless display of ineptitude by successive ministers and officials that I saw in my time in government, of which this poor individual was just the end of the line …

    The MoD has tried at every turn to cut off those from Afghan special forces units from coming to the UK, for reasons I cannot fathom.

    They also lied to themselves about doing it. The UK’s director of Special Forces told me personally that he was offended and angry by my suggestion that his organisation was blocking the Triples.

    Certain MoD ministers had a criminal lack of professional curiosity as to why the Triples [members of the Afghan special forces] were being rejected when there were so many subject matter experts who said they clearly should be eligible.

    They even tried for a long time to say that Afghan special forces were not eligible.

    Mercer said the UK ended up letting the wrong people in.

    And the net result of this spectacular cluster is that we’ve let into this country thousands with little or tenuous links to the UK, and still some Afghan special forces we set up the bloody schemes for, remain trapped in Afghanistan, Pakistan or worse, Iran.

    I feel furious, sad and bitter about the whole thing, and do as much as I can to get through each day not thinking about Afghanistan.

    Here is the agenda for the day.

    9.30am: Liz Kendall, work and pensions secretary, gives evidence to the Commons work and pensions committee.

    10am: David Lammy, foreign secretary, gives evidence to the Commons international development committee.

    Noon: Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at PMQs.

    Noon: The Home Office is publishing a report by David Anderson KC into the Prevent programme.

    If you want to contact me, please post a message below the line when comments are open (normally between 10am and 3pm at the moment), or message me on social media. I can’t read all the messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” in a message aimed at me, I am more likely to see it because I search for posts containing that word.

    If you want to flag something up urgently, it is best to use social media. You can reach me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X, but individual Guardian journalists are there, I still have my account, and if you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I will see it and respond if necessary.

    I find it very helpful when readers point out mistakes, even minor typos. No error is too small to correct. And I find your questions very interesting too. I can’t promise to reply to them all, but I will try to reply to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.

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  • Innovative packaging solution that is recyclable and compostable, further expands Huhtamaki’s ice cream portfolio

    Innovative packaging solution that is recyclable and compostable, further expands Huhtamaki’s ice cream portfolio

    “Our new ice cream cups demonstrate Huhtamaki’s expertise in paperboard and barrier technologies, as well as our dedication to sustainable innovation,” says Fredrik Davidsson, President of Foodservice Packaging at Huhtamaki.

    The new ice cream cups combine product innovation with great consumer appeal. Made from responsibly sourced, certified paperboard which contains a bio-based material coating, shifting from fossil-based to bio-based plastics, while keeping plastic content to less than 10%. These cups are both home and industrial compostable and recyclable, delivering a new sustainable packaging solution for the ice cream industry.

    “We are proud to offer a product that not only meets the highest environmental standards but also delivers the high quality our customers expect” continues Fredrik.

    This launch reflects Huhtamaki’s commitment to sustainability and innovation, helping both consumers and businesses reduce their environmental footprint. Designed for home and industrial compostability and recyclability, the new ice cream cups are now available to customers, offering a sustainable choice without compromising quality or performance.


    For more information visit our FMCG page and contact us 

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