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United States: Three killed in Philadelphia shooting
Washington: At least three people were killed and 11 others injured during a shooting spree in the US city of Philadelphia, authorities said on Sunday. The incident took place in 200 block of…
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US Defense Secretary set to meet Chinese counterpart next week
Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to meet his Chinese counterpart for the first time during a trip to Singapore for a defence summit next week, CNN reported citing a…
- Technology
Blue Origin successfully launches 6 people on 5th space tourism flight
San Francisco: Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin successfully launched its fifth tourist flight to space on Saturday. Six people were carried to space above the Karman line — an internationally recognised…
- World
China to launch three-person mission to build space station
Beijing: China will launch three astronauts on a spacecraft on Sunday on a six-month mission to complete the construction of the country’s space station currently orbiting the earth, China Manned Space Agency…
- World
NY lawmakers pass legislation raising age bar for semi-automatic rifle
New York: New York lawmakers have passed a legislation package to increase the minimum age for buying and possessing a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21, in an effort to strengthen gun laws…
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US: Biden urges Congress to act on gun violence amid tensions
Washington: US President Joe Biden has urged Congress to take action on gun violence in a prime-time address from the White House. In his address on Thursday night, he urged Congress to ban…
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Biden may visit Saudi Arabia in late June: Reports
Washington: US President Joe Biden is expected to visit Saudi Arabia this month, NBC reported citing sources. He is also widely expected to travel to Israel. The is will be a symbolically…
- Offbeat
US: Mountain lion cub found in a classroom; rescued
Students of Pescadero High School in Northern California in the United States were surprised to find a mountain lion cub sitting inside one of their classrooms on Tuesday. Nobody was harmed. According…
- World
US: Azaan is changing Minneapolis city’s soundscape
The Muslim call to prayer, known as Azaan is now changing the soundscape of Minneapolis city in the state of Minnesota in the United States of America (USA). The steadily increasing Muslim…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru: US IT firm Pure Storage opens new India R&D centre
Bengaluru: US-based IT firm Pure Storage on Thursday inaugurated its new Research and Development Centre in Bengaluru that will focus on innovations that transform storage and data management. State Minister of IT…
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US: Over 110k child Covid-19 cases reported in past week
Los Angeles: More than 112,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US during the past week, a doubling of case counts from the four weeks prior, according to the latest report by…
- World
BTS visits White House, says ‘devastated’ by anti-Asian hate crimes
Washington: Popular South Korean Grammy-nominated band BTS visited the White House on Tuesday (local time) and said that they are devastated by the recent surge of hate crimes. “Equality begins when we…
- World
New Omicron subvariant makes up 60% of new US COVID-19 cases
Los Angeles: A new Omicron subvariant made up nearly 60 per cent of all new US cases in the latest week, according to estimates released by the US Centers for Disease Control…
- World
China claims it is still India’s top trade partner as per its data, not US
Beijing: China on Tuesday insisted that it is still India’s biggest trade partner in 2021-22 as per its figures and attributed the “disparity” to different methods of calculating the trade volume by…
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US not providing Ukraine with long-range rocket systems: Biden
Washington: The US will not provide Ukraine with long-range rocket systems capable of hitting targets inside Russia, President Joe Biden said, despite pleas from the war-torn nation for the supply of advanced…
