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Blackouts in over 1,000 Ukraine towns after massive Russian rocket attacks
Kiev: More than a thousand towns and villages across Ukraine remain without power after massive Russian attacks in recent days, Ukrainian officials said, as per media reports. Emergency services spokesman Oleksandr Khorunzhyi…
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Rishi Sunak would beat Liz Truss if UK PM poll held now, finds survey
London: Former Indian-origin chancellor Rishi Sunak would beat his rival Liz Truss if the Conservative Party leadership election is held now as a result of what is dubbed as “buyer’s remorse” among…
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Ex-British fighter pilots lured by Chinese military for training PLA personnel
London: The UK government said on Tuesday that it is taking “decisive steps” to stop lucrative Chinese recruitment schemes attempting to headhunt serving and former British military pilots to train the People’s…
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Russia has destroyed a third of Ukraine’s power stations in just a week of bombing raids
Kiev: Russian air strikes have destroyed about 30 percent of Ukraine’s power stations in just one week leaving the country’s energy situation ‘critical’, President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed, the media reported. Bombing raids…
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China remains at bottom of internet freedom study for 8th straight year
Washington: Global internet freedom declined again in 2022 for the 12th year in a row, with China remaining as the most restricted country for the eighth consecutive year, a study has found,…
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SpaceX withdraws request for Pentagon to fund Starlink in Ukraine: Musk
San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has withdrawn its funding request to the Pentagon to begin footing the cost for satellite internet services Starlink for Ukraine. Musk’s tweet followed…
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Karim Benzema wins Ballon d’Or, Putellas retains women’s trophy
Paris: French striker Karim Benzema claimed the 2022 Ballon d’Or here after a dazzling season with Real Madrid which saw the Spanish giants win both La Liga and the UEFA Champions League.…
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World Bank steps in to mediate India-Pak water dispute
Islamabad: The World Bank announced the beginning of two parallel legal processes to address Pakistan’s concerns over two hydropower projects on the western rivers by India in violation of the Indus Basin…
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Pak security agency chief avoids questions on handing over Dawood, Hafiz Saeed to India
New Delhi: The head of Pakistan’s top security agency avoided questions on whether underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed would be handed over to India. In…
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Special attention given to Indian community: Malaysian PM Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia pays special attention to its Indian community, especially in terms of its education and economy, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said. He said the 2023 Budget which was recently…
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Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology 2022: Svante Pääbo and the human evolution story
In 2008, Svante Paabo, the Swedish scientist and team made an accidental discovery of a finger bone in a cave in Siberia. Decoding the genetic information from it led him to throw…
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US to continue imposing sanctions on Russian, Iranian arms trade: White House
Washington: The United States will continue to vigorously enforce sanctions on Russian and Iranian arms trade, the White House said, asserting that it will stand with the people of Ukraine for as…
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Hindu-American Tulsi Gabbard compares Biden to Hitler
New York: Fresh off announcing her departure from the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard, who was the first Hindu member of the US Congress, compared President Joe Biden to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.…
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Sindhi group wants to drag Pakistan to ICJ over dead bodies at hospital
New Delhi: Even as the Pakistan government is pretending that nothing happened at the Nishtar Hospital in Multan, where hundreds of rotting bodies were discovered on Friday, more criticism is coming its…
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Andhra techie dies while trekking in US
Amaravati: A 32-year-old techie from Andhra Pradesh died in the United States on Sunday while on a trekking trip. Ganguri Srinath, hailing from Guntur, suffered a fatal fall while trekking in Atlanta.…
