World
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Xi meets Bill Gates, calls him ‘American friend’
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping met Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates here on Friday, and said the latter was his “first American friend I’ve met in Beijing this year”. Xi…
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China withholds indicator of COVID-19 deaths as cremation data not released
Hong Kong: China has dropped the number of cremations held last winter from a quarterly report, withholding a key indicator of the pandemic death toll during the countrys largest Covid wave, the…
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Finance executive in US drugged, raped teen after targeting her on Instagram
New York: A finance executive in the US who is facing 17 charges, including five counts of rape in the second degree, kept screenshots of the Instagram accounts of teenage girls on…
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Russian ransomware group reveals more victims of MOVEit mass hack
San Francisco: The Russia-linked ransomware group Clop, which exploited a critical security vulnerability in a popular corporate file transfer tool, has listed several other victims of its mass hack, that also include…
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Singapore to deploy more police robots in the absence of manpower
Singapore: After over five years of small-scale trials, Singapore will now “progressively deploy” more police robots across the city-state. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said on Thursday that the robots were placed…
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Egyptian Prime Minister embarks on trip to Russia, Ukraine
Cairo: Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, leading an Egyptian delegation, has embarked on a trip to Kiev and Saint Petersburg with a mission of resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict through an Africa-mediated initiative.…
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Gandhi, Taj Mahal ironic stars in birth of Hindu Caucus in US Congress
Washington: Lawmakers came and held forth. On Mahatma Gandhi. On the Taj Mahal. And Indian-Americans, their riches and their achievements. Anything but Hindu-Americans. The problem: The lawmakers had been invited to an…
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Making ‘huge push’ to process as many visa applications in India: US
New York: Consular teams have been making a huge push to process as many visa applications as possible in India, which remains the US government’s top priority, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller…
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Indian worker found dead under building rubble in Singapore
Singapore: The body of a 20-year-old Indian national, who died after a part of a building collapsed in Singapore, was pulled out of the rubble in rescue operations lasting for more than…
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US federal govt agencies targeted in major global cyberattack
Washington: “Several” US federal government agencies were targeted on Thursday in a major global cyberattack, which takes advantage of a weakness in a widely-used software, media reports said. The US Cybersecurity and…
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Cyclone Biparjoy: 82,000 people evacuated to safe places in Pakistan
Islamabad: The coastal regions of Pakistan were on high alert on Thursday with over 82,000 people being evacuated to safer places in the southern Sindh province as Cyclone Biparjoy, currently classified as…
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No Israel normalization if Palestine dispute not solved: US Saudi embassy
Washington: In light of the United States’ efforts to bring Israel and Saudi Arabia closer, the Saudi Embassy in Washington made it clear that an agreement is only possible after a solution…
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UK court orders British firm to pay Rs 8 cr to Beirut explosion victims
Beirut: A London court has ordered a British firm to pay more than 800,000 pounds (Rs 8,30,36,734) in damages to some of the victims of the Beirut explosion, Reuters reported. British-registered chemical trading…
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Pro-Khalistani activist Avtar Singh dies in UK hospital
London: Avtar Singh Purba alias Khanda, a prominent pro-Khalistani activist who was involved in the attack on the Indian High Commission in London, died at a hospital in the city of Birmingham…