World
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US charges 7 with military tech plot on Russian govt orders
Washington: The US has charged five Russian nationals, including a suspected Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, and two Americans for allegedly conspiring to obtain military-grade and dual-use technologies from US companies for…
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Biden signs bill on same-sex marriage
Washington: US President Joe Biden signed a bill codifying federal protections for same-sex marriage. The move, on Tuesday, came days after the Respect for Marriage Act went through the US Congress, Xinhua…
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US ‘closely monitoring’ LAC situation after Tawang clashes
Washington: The US said that it “strongly opposes” any unilateral attempt to advance territorial claims, adding that it is “closely” monitoring the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the…
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Pakistan’s brain drain situation aggravates; 765K youths moved overseas in 2022: Official data
Islamabad: Pakistan’s brain drain situation has aggravated with more than 7,60,000 educated youth seeking employment overseas this year mainly because of the uncertain economic and political situation in the country, according to…
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‘Satellite images show China built villages, road near border in Arunachal’
New Delhi: Satellite images show that China has built villages on their side of the India-China border abutting Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang, and the PLA army has also constructed a road on that…
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India’s Chief of Naval Staff in Sri Lanka on 4-day visit
Colombo: India’s Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R. Hari Kumar is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka during which he is scheduled to call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime…
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Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed visits Indonesia’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office, on Sunday visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Surakarta, Indonesia,…
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12th World Hindi conference in Fiji from 15 to 17 February 2023
Auckland: The 12th World Hindi Conference is being organized by the Ministry of External Affairs in collaboration with the Government of Fiji from 15 to 17 February 2023 in Fiji. According to…
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India’s Chief of Naval Staff in Sri Lanka on 4-day visit
Colombo: India’s Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral R. Hari Kumar is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka during which he is scheduled to call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime…
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5 Sri Lanka fishermen missing after cyclone Mandous
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries on Tuesday announced that five fishermen disappeared while at sea during cyclone Mandous. The five from three multi-day fishing vessels are residents of Batticaloa, Trincomalee and…
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Forest fires destroy 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this yr
Santiago: Up to 1,587 forest fires have razed more than 13,000 hectares of land in Chile this year, Agriculture Minister Esteban Valenzuela said. While the fires were 9 per cent fewer than…
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2 cops among 6 dead in Australia shooting incident
Brisbane: Two police officers were among six victims of a shooting incident in Australia’s Queensland state, police said on Tuesday, adding that a major investigation is underway. The incident took place in…
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A new dynamic in the Af-Pak Great Game
Kabul: Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan has changed drastically ever since takeover of the Taliban in Kabul. The nature of engagement from the initial days of the Taliban government when one witnessed the…
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UN witnesses notable advances on achieving gender equality: Guterres
United Nations: Five years since a United Nations system-wide gender parity strategy was adopted, the world body has witnessed notable advances on achieving gender equality, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. In 2017,…
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Sacked British-Indian cop says didn’t know of husband’s drug-dealing
London: An Indian-origin Met police officer, who was sacked from the force last month, claimed that she was unaware that her husband was a drug dealer. Constable Rasvinder Agalliu, a former model…
