World
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UN Women chief blasts Taliban ban on female Afghan UN staff
United Nations: Sima Bahous, UN Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, has condemned the Taliban’s decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. “We stand in…
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700 firefighters work to douse massive Dhaka wholesale market fire
Dhaka: About 700 firefighters continued working on Wednesday to completely douse a massive blaze that erupted at the Bangabazar in Dhaka — the biggest wholesale market in Bangladesh — 36 hours ago.…
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Husband pleads guilty to murder of Indian nurse, 2 kids in UK
London: A suspect charged with the triple murder of an Indian nurse and her two children pleaded guilty to the murders at a court hearing in eastern England on Wednesday and was…
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Video: Imran Khan enters Pak court wearing bulletproof ‘bucket’
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday appeared in an anti-terrorism court in Lahore amid tight security with a black bucket like bullet proof bucket like structure on his head, leading…
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Defiant Donald Trump pleads not guilty to all 34 criminal charges against him
New York: Donald Trump, the first former US President to be criminally charged, has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records at his arraignment in a Manhattan court…
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Fortune of world’s richest person Bernard Arnault crosses $200 bn for first time
London: The fortune of Bernard Arnault, the world’s richest person, has topped $200 billion for the first time as shares in his French LVMH luxury goods empire hit a record high, a…
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Bob Lee, Cash App creator and ex-CTO of Square, stabbed to death
San Francisco: Bob Lee, founder of Cash App and current Chief Product Officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has been stabbed to death in a shocking incident here. MobileCoin confirmed to ABC7 News…
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Kim Cotton becomes first female on-field umpire in men’s international cricket
Dunedin: Kim Cotton of New Zealand made history on Wednesday, becoming the first female on-field umpire to stand in a men’s international match between two ICC full-member countries. Cotton officiated the second…
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Johnson & Johnson willing to pay $9bn to settle talc claims: Report
London: US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has proposed to pay almost $9 billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits the company faces in North America over claims that its baby…
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Pakistan vs UK on ‘grooming gangs’ abusing white English girls
Islamabad: Condemning UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s “discriminatory and xenophobic” remarks against Pakistani men, the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday warned of the serious repercussions of such comments, media reports said.…
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Trump’s next in-person hearing in hush money case set for Dec 4
New York: The next in-person hearing in a criminal case against former president Donald Trump in New York City has been set for December 4, roughly two months before the official start…
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Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza post raid on Al-Aqsa
Jerusalem: Israel on Wednesday carried out intensive airstrikes on military facilities in the Gaza Strip. Security sources in Gaza said that the airstrikes targeted two military posts of Hamas in the southwest…
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Want to work, settle in Europe? Germany, other countries offer job seeker visas
Are you looking to work and settle in Europe? While most people explore student or visit visas as their primary option, there is another way to work and settle in Europe –…
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Christina Hammock Koch to be first woman to go around the moon
US astronaut Christina Hammock Koch will be the envy of all women in the world as she becomes the first woman to go around the moon. While men have journeyed to moon…
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Invites issued for King Charles’ coronation on May 6
London: Invites for the May 6 coronation of the UK’s King Charles III have been issued by the Buckingham Palace. Along with the ornately illustrated invitation from “King Charles III and Queen…
