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Prez Xi Jinping will attend virtual SCO summit hosted by India: Chinese FM
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend next week’s virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) being hosted by India, an official announcement here said on Friday. At the invitation of…
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Over 120 mn Americans across dozen states due to Canadian wildfire smoke
Los Angeles: More than 120 million people across more than a dozen US states from the Midwest to the East Coast are under air quality alerts, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues…
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Rumours over whereabouts of top Russian General Sergei Surovikin
London: General Sergei Surovikin, the commander of the Russian air force, has not been seen in public since overnight on Friday when he issued a video appeal to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin…
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Shanghai records rare high temperatures amid rainy season
Shanghai: Shanghai has so far issued four yellow alerts for abnormally high temperatures this year, though it has entered the annual rainy season, known as “plum rain season” in China. On Thursday…
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17 dead amid heat wave in southern US
Houston: At least 17 people have died from heat-related illnesses as a severe heat wave continued in Texas while spreading into other parts of the southern US. In Webb County, southern Texas,…
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West Bank violence making Saudi-Israeli relations difficult: US
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concerns over the ongoing violence in the occupied West Bank city and its impact on the progress of normalizing its relationship between Israel and Saudi…
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Aspartame to be declared carcinogen by WHO’s cancer research arm
The world’s most-used artificial sweetener, aspartame, is set to be declared a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organisation’s cancer research arm. Aspartame is used as a sweetener in a plethora of…
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Sweden: Protester desecrates Quran outside Stockholm mosque
Stockholm: A protestor tore up and burned pages of a copy of the Holy Quran at a small protest outside Stockholm’s Grand Mosque in Sweden with police permission on Wednesday, after the…
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UAE: Pakistani computer engineer wins Rs 2 crore in Mahzooz draw
Abu Dhabi: A United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Pakistani expatriate won a guaranteed raffle prize of Dirham one million (Rs 2,23,36,658) in the Mahzooz weekly draw. The winner Abdul Mannan— matched five out…
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Turkey condemns Quran burning in Sweden
Ankara: Turkey had condemned the burning of the Muslim holy book Quran in Sweden, calling it a “heinous act”. In a series of tweets, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said: “I condemn the…
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In verbal slip, US President says Putin losing war in ‘Iraq’
Washington DC: US President Joe Biden in a verbal slip on Wednesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin “is clearly losing the war in Iraq,” instead of saying Ukraine. Vladimir Putin “is clearly…
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Canada rejects 595 Indian study permit applications this year till May
New Delhi: A total of 7,528 study permit applications from India were rejected by the Canadian authorities between January 2018 to May 2023 over misrepresentation, involving false or altered documents, according to…
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Presumed human remains found in Titan sub wreckage: US Coast Guard
Washington: The US Coast Guard has announced that “presumed human remains” were among the debris and evidence recovered from the seafloor where the wreckage of the doomed Titan submersible was found following…
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Wagner boss planned to capture top Russian Army General, Defence Minister
London: Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to seize two of Russia’s top military officials when he launched a short lived mutiny on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing Western…
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SL’s domestic debt restructuring plan approved by special cabinet meeting: Prez Ranil
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s special cabinet meeting on Wednesday unanimously approved the government’s Domestic Debt Restructuring (DDR) plan under which the cash-strapped government aims to restructure USD 17 billion out of the total…
