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Guterres calls on G20 to come up with relief package for Global South
United Nations: Warning that poverty and hunger are rising around the world, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the G20 nations led by India to come up with a package offering investments…
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I’m lucky, says Salman Rushdie on surviving colossal attack in New York
London: Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Midnight’s Children’, said on Monday that he feels lucky to have survived the last year’s brutal stabbing at a literary event in…
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‘Find it difficult to write’: Salman Rushdie speaks out after attack Salman Rushdie
London: Months after a near-lethal attack that left him debilitated and without vision in one eye, Sir Salman Rushdie says that he is “lucky” and has been told that he is “doing…
- Middle East
China coerces Uyghurs in Turkey to spy on each other
New Delhi: More than six years into China’s campaign to eradicate independent Uyghur society at home, the Chinese authorities are going to great length to keep tabs on ordinary Uyghurs abroad, media…
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Indian-origin father of 3 dies after being hit by car in US
New York: A 39-year-old Indian-origin father of three, who had gone to pick up insulin and Pokemon cards for his children from a convenience store in the US, died after being hit…
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Utah Legislature passes resolution honouring Sikh community’s contributions
Houston: The Legislature in the US state of Utah has unanimously passed a resolution honoring the Sikh community for their contributions and service to humanity despite facing “oppression and discrimination throughout the…
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Premier League: Harry Kane’s 267th goal helps Spurs prevail over Man City 1-0
London: Harry Kane struck a record-breaking 267th goal for Tottenham Hotspur, giving them a deserved victory over the Manchester City team in the Premier League on Sunday, despite being reduced to 10…
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UN condemns deadly clashes in South Sudan after killing of 27
Juba: The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has condemned deadly violence in Kajo-Keji County in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State that left at least 27 dead and several others injured…
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Guterres condoles death of Musharraf
United Nations: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is saddened to hear about the death of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, according to his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. “The Secretary-General conveys his deepest condolences to the…
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Avalanches kill 8 in Austria
Vienna: Eight people, including a Chinese national, were killed in separate avalanches in western Austria since Friday, Austrian police have said. The 32-year-old Chinese skier was buried and killed in an avalanche…
- Pakistan
3 killed, 12 injured in road accident in Pakistan
Islamabad: At least three people were killed and 12 others injured in a road accident in the Khanewal district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Sunday, rescuers told media. According to the…
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Miscreants vandalise 14 Hindu temples in northwestern Bangladesh
Dhaka: Unidentified miscreants vandalised 14 Hindu temples in northwestern Bangladesh in a series of orchestrated attacks overnight, police said on Sunday. “Unidentified people carried out the attacks under the cover of darkness,…
- Pakistan
US threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age after 9/11 terror attack, Musharraf in his memoir
Islamabad: The US threatened to bomb Pakistan “back to the Stone Age” after the 9/11 terror attacks if then President General Pervez Musharraf did not cooperate with America’s war on Afghanistan. In…
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5 injured in TTP-orchestrated explosion in Pak’s Quetta
Karachi: At least five people, mostly policemen, were injured in an explosion in Quetta on Sunday in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, in yet another instance of systematic attacks targeting security officials in…
- Pakistan
Don’t get a haircut: When Pervez Musharraf praised Dhoni’s long locks
New Delhi: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, who passed away on Sunday, always enjoyed the India-Pakistan cricket rivalry and once suggested former Indian cricket captain M S Dhoni to not trim his…
