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F-16s to Ukraine would be ‘unacceptable escalation’, warns Russia
Moscow: Charging the US and its allies with “playing with fire” by increasing support for Ukraine amid the conflict with Moscow, including planning to provide it US-made F-16s, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…
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Major rise in world hunger, says UNFAO
There has been a major increase in the number of people that go to bed hungry in the world, as the globe reeled under the effects of prolonged conflicts and a global…
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Kabul-Tehran issues can be resolved through talks: Afghanistan’s acting FM
Kabul: Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi has stressed the need to resort to dialogue to resolve issues between Kabul and Tehran in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan…
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China shuts 67K social media accounts; deletes 1.4M posts
China’s Cyberspace regulator disclosed that it deleted 1.4 million social media posts after a two-month probe into supposed misinformation, profiteering, and impersonation of state officials and other issues. The CAC in a…
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Iran-Taliban exchange gunfire at Zabol border over water dispute
Tehran: Clashes broke out on Saturday between Iranian and Afghan Taliban forces at the border between the two countries, Iranian police said without reporting casualties, amid a water dispute between the two…
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6 magnitude quake hits Pakistan; tremors felt in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir
Islamabad: A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted several parts of Pakistan on Sunday morning, sparking panic and forcing residents to flee their homes. The epicentre of the quake was the border region of…
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ChatGPT lands US lawyer in trouble after it cites bogus cases
San Francisco: ChatGPT has fooled a lawyer into believing that citations given by the AI chatbot in a case against Colombian airline Avianca were real while they were, in fact, bogus. Lawyer…
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Finland to see biggest drop in housing prices in 30 yrs
Helsinki: Housing prices in Finland are expected to have the biggest drop this year since 1993, according to a housing market review conducted by Hypo, a credit institution specialising in the sector.…
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Stop deportation of 150 Indian students: Canadian party to govt
Toronto: Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has called on the government not to deport 150 Punjabi students who were told to leave the country as they arrived on fake college admission letters,…
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Indian-American named dean of top B-school in South Carolina
New York: Indian-American Rohit Verma has been named dean of University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, effective August 1. Verma joins the Moore School from VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam,…
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Nepal, India plan to ink deals during PM’s visit
Kathmandu: During Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s upcoming trip to India, the two neighbouring countries are planning to sign a series of agreements, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kathmandu said…
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‘Jamal Khashoggi Way’: Los Angeles votes to rename Saudi embassy street
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to rename the Saudi Arabia’s embassy street as ‘Jamal Khashoggi Way’ to honour the slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The decision comes year after the street…
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Pak govt cancels diplomatic passports of nine PTI leaders
Islamabad: The government in Islamabad has cancelled the diplomatic passports of nine Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders. The PTI leaders are Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Azam Swati, Pervaiz Khattak, Ali Amin Gandapur,…
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Philippine authorities warn of syndicate crime behind child beggars using QR code
Manila: A photo of a capital using a QR code went viral on social media, prompting a government body to warn about the possibility of syndicates using street children to scam people.…
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Bill introduced in US to hire foreign health workers on H-1B visa
New York: Two US Congresswomen have introduced a bill to make it easier for the Department of Veteran Affairs to hire foreign employees on H1-B visas when they cannot find a suitable…
