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New ‘highly infectious’ Covid variants emerge in China
Beijing: As China imposes fresh lockdowns and travel restrictions amid Covid surge, the country has detected new Omicron sub-variants BF.7 and BA.5.1.7, which are highly infectious with greater transmissibility. BF.7 (also known…
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Nissan sells its Russian operation with 6 year buyback option
Tokyo: Japan’s Nissan Motor Company has decided to sell its Russian operations with an option to buy it back within six years, the company said. The company also said it will take…
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Experts debate Nirav Modi’s suicide risk in UK High Court
London: The High Court in London on Tuesday began hearing evidence from two leading experts in the field of psychiatry to determine the level of suicide risk faced by Nirav Modi if…
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Russia would consider Putin-Biden meeting at G20
Moscow: Moscow would not turn down a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, at the G20 meeting next month, as per Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, media…
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Russia: Meta added to list of ‘terrorist and extremist’ organisations
Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, on Tuesday, flagged and added the U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. (META.O) as “terrorists and extremists”, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. An appeal by…
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United Nations will become ‘irrelevant’ without reforms: Jaishankar
Sydney: The United Nations Security Council reforms is like a “hard nut”, but hard nuts can be cracked, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said here on Tuesday as he cautioned that the…
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Accused in US Sikh family’s killing could face lifetime in jail
New York: Jesus Salgado, the 48 year-old involved in the kidnapping and killing of an Indian-origin Sikh family, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one for each life lost,…
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Putin hosts United Arab Emirates leader for economic talks
St Petersburg: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hailed a recent decision by OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations to limit production as a key to stabilising the global energy market, as…
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Elon Musk’s affordable internet service Starlink debuts in Japan
San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Starlink on Tuesday entered Japan, making it the first Asian country to get SpaceX’s affordable satellite internet service.Other than Japan, Starlink currently provides satellite internet access in around…
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Pakistan rejects PM Modi’s remarks about Kashmir during public rally in Gujarat
Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about Kashmir during a public rally in Gujarat, saying his contention that he has, somehow, “resolved the Kashmir issue”, is not only…
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Malala Yousafzai arrives in Pakistan to meet flood-hit victims
Karachi: Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday, her first visit to her home country in more than four years, to inspect regions hit by the cataclysmic floods and meet…
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US: NAACP supports FBI, CBI investigations on Hindutva organizations
Against the backdrop of the rising Hindu supremacist movement in the United States, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) raised its support for a demand an FBI and…
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Australian watchdogs launch probe into data breach
Canberra: Two Australian watchdogs on Tuesday announced that they have commenced formal investigations into Optus, in response to the telco’s data breach of up to 10 million customers in September. The Office…
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UK may put cap on number of dependents international students can bring
London: Bad news for the students who are planning to move to the United Kingdom on student visas as the country is likely to introduce a cap on the number of dependents…
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India votes with West on 3 UNGA procedural matters; Jaishankar silent on Ukraine
United Nations: While External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar kept the world in suspense on how India would vote on the upcoming resolution in the UN General Assembly condemning Russia’s annexation of parts…
