World
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With Chhetri returning from retirement, India aim to beat Maldives, Bangladesh
Shillong: It is easier said than done but senior defender Sandesh Jhingan on Saturday said that the Indian football team’s target is to beat Maldives and Bangladesh without conceding any goal in…
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UK’s Starmer convenes ‘coalition of the willing’ for second meeting to discuss Ukraine
London: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is convening a second meeting of global leaders Saturday to discuss the developments regarding the war in Ukraine, following another frantic week of diplomacy aimed at…
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G7 slams China’s growing assertiveness in Indo-Pacific
Quebec: The Foreign Ministers of the Group of 7 (G7) countries blasted China’s dangerous manoeuvres in South China as they wrapped up a three-day meeting in Quebec, Canada. The G7 welcomed ongoing…
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Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia University
New York: The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic…
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US: Plane catches fire after landing; passengers flee onto wing amid smoke
Denver: A fire on an American Airlines plane after it diverted mid-flight and landed at Denver International Airport sent passengers fleeing onto a wing in a fraught evacuation amid billowing clouds of…
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Columbia pro-Palestinian protests: Indian scholar self-deports after visa ban
An Indian doctoral student who took part in pro-Palestinian protests in April 2024, during Israel’s war on Gaza at Columbia University, has self-deported using the CBP Home App, the Department of Homeland…
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US arrests 2nd person who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia
New York: Immigration officials have arrested a second person who participated in Pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, and have revoked the visa of another student, they announced Friday. Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian…
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US prez Trump asks Putin to spare the lives of Ukrainian troops
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he had appealed to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that the lives of thousands of Ukrainian troops “completely surrounded” by the Russian military be…
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Pakistan tightens security around Rawalpindi’s Afghan refugee detention centre
Rawalpindi: Pakistan has tightened security around an Afghan refugee detention centre in Rawalpindi even as the operation to detain Afghan refugees in the country continues. The Pakistani government has set a deadline…
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Who is Mark Carney, Canada’s new prime minister
Toronto: Former central banker Mark Carney is Canada’s new prime minister after being sworn in following the resignation of Justin Trudeau. Carney is 59. He was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories,…
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Mark Carney sworn in as Canada’s new Prime Minister amid trade war
Toronto: Former central banker Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister on Friday, and will now try to steer his country through a trade war brought by US President…
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Bomb blast at Pakistan mosque injures senior cleric, 3 others
Peshawar: Four worshippers, including a senior cleric, were injured when a bomb exploded during Friday prayers at a mosque in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. District Police Officer Asif Bahader…
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Palestine, Jordan, Egypt welcome US pullback from Gaza displacement plan
Ramallah: Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt welcomed US President Donald Trump’s retreat from his previous plan of displacing the more than 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. In a statement issued by…
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PIA flight lands at Lahore airport with a missing wheel
Lahore: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) domestic flight landed on the Lahore airport with one of its wheels missing, an official said on Friday. However, no untoward accident was reported due to…
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Sudan crisis: Families eat animal feed amid severe famine
United Nations: Starving families in famine-struck west Sudan have been forced to eat animal feed, UN humanitarians have said. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it is…
