October 2021 - World News

Sunday, October 31, 2021

The US was "absolutely in lock step" with Britain, Germany and France on getting Iran back into a nuclear deal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday, but he added it was unclear if Tehran...

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US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that the agreements made at the G20 summit including pledging to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above Celsius, proved "the power of America showing up".

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US President Joe Biden praised Pope Francis on Sunday for his empathy and humanity, calling the pontiff "a fine, decent, honourable man".

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US biotech firm Moderna said Sunday that American officials have delayed approving its COVID-19 vaccine for teenagers to allow more time to better assess the potential risk of developing myocarditis,...

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said Australia's Prime Minister outright lied to him over a cancelled submarine deal, deepening an already fraught diplomatic crisis.

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White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Sunday she has tested positive for COVID-19, after deciding not to travel to Europe with US President Joe Biden when members of her family contracted the virus.

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Families reunited in emotional scenes at Sydney's international airport on Monday, as Australia's border reopened almost 600 days after a pandemic closure began.

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With the UK hosts warning that "lights are flashing red on the climate change dashboard", the COP26 UN climate summit kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, marked by pointed warnings of growing threats as...

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US President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed his disappointment that Russia and China "basically didn't show up in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change" at the G20 summit.

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The G20 major economies committed on Sunday to the key goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but disappointed leaders warned more was needed to make a success of UN climate talks...

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President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that Britain must give ground in a post-Brexit fishing dispute or France will trigger trade reprisals this week, saying: "The ball is in Britain's court."

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Representing the world's leading developed and developing economies, the G20 leaders on Sunday indicated they are against premature withdrawal of support measures initiated by the various countries to...

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Representing the world's leading developed and developing economies, the G20 leaders on Sunday indicated they are against premature withdrawal of support measures initiated by the various countries to...

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India's season of retracted ad campaigns found its newest corporate patron on Sunday in fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee's label as it pulled promotional material for its mangalsutra collection...

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is giving a mixed verdict on the climate change agreements reached at the Group of 20 summit, saying he hopes for more ambitious commitments to be made at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow.

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President Joe Biden on Sunday unveiled several new steps the U.S. is taking to strengthen and streamline supply chains as he convened world leaders at the Group of 20 summits to discuss the bottlenecks hampering the global economy as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday urged world leaders attending the UN climate change conference in Glasgow to commit to cutting carbon emissions, warning efforts to halt runaway global...

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Indian captain Virat Kohli said his team was not brave enough with the bat, ball and in its body language in the eight-wicket loss to New Zealand.

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Ahead of Diwali, the Delhi government's Food Safety Department today seized 700 kg of ''foul smelling'' khoya during a surprise check at two wholesale markets here, officials said.

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Actor Rajinikanth, who recently underwent a surgery to restore blood supply to the brain, was discharged from the hospital tonight.

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The Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police questioned Nayati Healthcare chairperson Niira Radia for nearly four hours in connection with an alleged Rs 300-crore loan embezzlement case, officials...

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India's chances of making the semi-finals now hang by a thread as they would have to rely on Afghanistan beating New Zealand and then win their remaining matches against the Afghans, Namibia and...

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Saturday, October 30, 2021

American Airlines has had to cancel hundreds of flights this weekend due to staffing shortages triggered by weather-related disruptions, according to FlightAware data.

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Financially crippled Lebanon finds itself in a new tug-of-war between regional kingpins Saudi Arabia and Iran after Riyadh and other wealthy Gulf states expelled the Lebanese envoy, analysts say.

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A 32-year-old deputy manager of the Punjab National Bank branch at Sahanganj in Faizabad was found hanging in her rented accommodation on Saturday, with a purported suicide note pointing fingers at...

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The continuing mutations of the coronavirus call for a mechanism that would allow vaccines to be adjusted to virus changes quickly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Sunday in Rome with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the State Department said, in only their second face-to-face session amid acute tensions between...

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India is ready to produce over 5 billion Covid vaccine doses by the end of next year to help the world in the fight against the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a G-20 Summit session in...

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The Taliban asked the US and other countries on Saturday to recognise their government in Afghanistan, saying that a failure to do so and the continued freezing of Afghan funds abroad would lead to...

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Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies sit down for a second day of talks on Sunday faced with the difficult task of bridging their differences on how to combat global warming ahead of a crucial...

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Hundreds of activists rallied in Glasgow on Saturday to urge world leaders to act on climate change, in the biggest protests yet in the Scottish city ahead of the crucial COP26 summit.

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US actor Alec Baldwin said the shocking death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed when he fired a prop gun on set, was a "one in a trillion episode," footage aired by TMZ showed...

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The Taliban asked the US and other countries on Saturday to recognise their government in Afghanistan, saying that a failure to do so and the continued freezing of Afghan funds abroad would lead to...

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Canada on Saturday pledged at the G20 summit to donate millions more Covid vaccine doses to poor countries worldwide.

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US actor Alec Baldwin said the shocking death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed when he fired a prop gun on set, was a "one in a trillion episode," footage aired by TMZ showed...

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The United States and the European Union have agreed to end a festering dispute over US steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by former US President Donald Trump in 2018, removing an irritant in...

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Israel's ambassador to India has taken a swipe at Iran for calling him "childish" over his remarks that Iran was seen as a destabiliser in the region.

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The United Arab Emirates said Saturday it was withdrawing its diplomats from Lebanon, following a similar move by Saudi Arabia over a Lebanese minister's criticism of the Riyadh-led military...

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US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday received a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot and urged Americans to follow suit.

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The leaders of the United States, Germany, France and Britain on Saturday expressed their "grave and growing concern" at Iran's nuclear activities, after a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

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Israel's ambassador to India has taken a swipe at Iran for calling him "childish" over his remarks that Iran was seen as a destabiliser in the region.

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Amrullah Saleh, former Vice President of Afghanistan, on Saturday claimed that the Taliban had killed at least thirteen people in order to silence music at a wedding party in Nangarhar province. Taking to Twitter, Amrullah Saleh said, "Taliban militiamen have massacred 13 persons to silence music in a wedding party in Nangarhar."

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Emmanuel Macron on Saturday sought to enhanceties with India and Indonesia, France's presidency said, after Paris was locked out of a defence pact between the US, UK and Australia.

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Leaders of the G20 world's major economies approved a global minimum tax on the largest companies on Saturday, but were still haggling over the pressing issue of climate change.

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Friday, October 29, 2021

A US government watchdog on Friday accused the State Department and Pentagon of suppressing information that lawmakers and the public need to understand the collapse of Afghanistan.

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Two persons were killed and four members of a family, including three children, were injured when their neighbour attacked them with a knife on Friday morning in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi near in...

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The farmer unions under the aegis of Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Friday said that the investigation in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident should be directly supervised by Supreme Court for justice to be...

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Effective vaccines, without a needle: Since the start of the Covid pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a...

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Effective vaccines, without a needle: Since the start of the Covid pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a...

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Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov was required to pay nearly $509 million to settle US charges of tax evasion, the US Justice Department said Friday.

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Bypolls to three Lok Sabha and 29 Assembly seats - across 13 states and the UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli - will be held today. Almost all the Assembly bypolls are needed after incumbent MLAs defected to...

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Following reports of minorities being targeted in the state and properties being vandalised, the Tripura High Court Friday asked the state government to file a detailed report by November 10 on the...

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Britain's Prince Andrew on Friday rejected Virginia Giuffre's accusations that he sexually abused her more than two decades ago when she was 17, and urged a US judge to dismiss her civil lawsuit.

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Britain's Prince Andrew on Friday rejected Virginia Giuffre's accusations that he sexually abused her more than two decades ago when she was 17, and urged a US judge to dismiss her civil lawsuit.

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Real guns can safely be used on movie sets so long as protocols are followed, US actor Matthew McConaughey has told AFP in an interview, as calls mount to ban firearms from filmmaking in the wake of...

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The United States on Friday authorised the Pfizer Covid vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, paving the way for 28 million young Americans to soon get immunized.

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Ikea will pay a total of 110 million euros ($128 million) in bonuses to employees worldwide as reward for their work during the pandemic, Ingka Group, the company that operates most Ikea's stores,...

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The United States is discussing Turkey's request to buy F-16 fighters after a deal for more advanced F-35s was scrapped due to Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system, officials said.

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The top U.S. representative in Taiwan, Sandra Oudkirk, said on Friday that the United States is committed to helping Taiwan defend itself amid heightened tensions between Taipei and Beijing.

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The armorer responsible for weapons on the film set where Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer has "no idea" why there were live rounds present, her lawyers said Friday.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held the first in-person meeting with his Italian counterpart Mario Draghi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rome during which the two leaders had extensive...

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will take medical advice and rest for "at least" another two weeks, Buckingham Palace said Friday, having recently spent a night in hospital to undergo "preliminary...

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US President Joe Biden said on Friday that Pope Francis told him he was a "good Catholic" who can receive communion, widening a gulf between Francis and conservative US bishops who want to deny it...

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US President Joe Biden, only the second Catholic to hold his office, had a private audience with Pope Francis on Friday at the start of a European trip aimed at reasserting US international...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held the first in-person meeting with his Italian counterpart Mario Draghi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rome during which the two leaders had extensive...

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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Japan's health ministry said it has decided to offer COVID-19 booster shots to anyone who has already received two vaccine doses, news agency Jiji reported on Thursday.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dropped about 20 kilograms (44 pounds), South Korea's spy agency believes, and it dismissed speculation he was using a body double.

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French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison by telephone on Thursday for the first time since the diplomatic crisis over a scrapped submarine deal last month,...

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China will build a base for police in Tajikistan near the Afghan border, a Tajik official said Thursday, amid concerns from both countries about the Taliban's ability to keep a lid on extremist...

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Roadblocks placed by the Delhi Police at the farmers' protest at Delhi's Tikri border were being moved on Thursday, videos showed, amid a Supreme Court hearing that has highlighted how traffic in the...

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In the first photographs that have emerged after his son Aryan Khan was granted bail, superstar Shah Rukh Khan was seen smiling with his team of lawyers.

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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was granted bail by Bombay High Court on Thursday - after being in jail for three weeks - ushering a huge sigh of relief for the family. The 23-year-old's...

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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced the parent company's name is being changed to "Meta" to represent a future beyond just its troubled social network.

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Megastar Shah Rukh Khan greeted the news of bail for his son, Aryan Khan -- arrested in connection with the drugs-on-cruise case -- with "tears of joy", said India's former atorney General Mukul...

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The BJP is not going anywhere for "many decades" and the problem with Rahul Gandhi is that he does not realise it, poll strategist Prashant Kishor said in Goa on Wednesday.

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said on Thursday it has agreed with China to upgrade their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership, a day after reaching a similar deal...

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Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra visited Uzbekistan as an international observer for the October 24 presidential election there.

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Oxfam has called on G20 leaders to take urgent action to dramatically scale-up manufacturing and access to Covid vaccines around the world, promote a fair economic recovery, fight hunger and help the...

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China placed a third city under lockdown on Thursday to tackle Covid-19 numbers, with around six million people now under orders to stay home as Beijing chases zero cases before the upcoming Winter...

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Australia's conservative government on Thursday proposed laws requiring voters to prove their identity when casting a ballot, a move slammed by the opposition as an attempt at voter suppression.

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With the IPL set to be a 10-team affair after RP-SG bought Pune and CVC owned the Ahmedabad franchises respectively, there will be a big auction in December this year with a lot of teams restructuring...

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Former CAG Vinod Rai has apologised unconditionally to Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam for "wrongly mentioning" him as one of the MPs who had pressured him not to name former PM Manmohan Singh in the...

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Companies like NSO can't sell their products to non-governmental actors, newly-appointed Israeli Ambassador to India Naor Gilon said today, while terming as an "internal thing" for New Delhi the row...

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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan's fans gathered outside his iconic Mumbai residence - Mannat - to celebrate as the Bombay High Court granted bail to the actor's son Aryan Khan, three weeks after his arrest...

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Aslam Merchant, the father of Arbaaz Merchant whose bail was approved today along with Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and model Munmun Dhamecha, said he was "overjoyed" at the order.

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Sameer Wankhede -- the zonal director of the anti-drugs agency Narcotics Control Bureau -- went to the Bombay High Court today after the Mumbai police started investigating the corruption allegations...

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The S&P BSE Sensex slid 1.9% in its biggest loss since April 30, with heavyweight bank shares being the biggest drags on the benchmark.

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Kranti Redkar Wankhede, the wife of NCB's Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday, seeking justice in the wake of the "attack...

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Modi has become synonymous not merely with his own administration, but with the Republic as a whole. His command over his party is total; he faces a weak and fragmented opposition.

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Google and Alphabet's Chief executive officer Sundar Pichai and Kermit The Frog on Wednesday made an online appearance together on YouTube to promote sustainable development campaign #DearEarth. 

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Delhi reported 42 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday and zero deaths, taking the tally of total infections in the national capital to 4,39,751. The death toll due to coronavirus stands at 25,019, according to a bulletin by the Delhi health department. 

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The Russian capital on Thursday started a nonworking period intended to stem coronavirus infections as new daily cases and deaths from COVID-19 surged to all-time highs.

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Islamabad has been facing a continuous rise in dengue fever cases with 123 more patients reported during the past 24 hours, health authorities in the Pakistani capital said on Thursday.

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British lawmakers are set to grill Facebook and other tech giants Thursday over how they handle online safety as European efforts to regulate social media companies gain momentum.

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

India is concerned about the current situation in Afghanistan, a top Pentagon official has told US lawmakers in Washington.

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Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine could start to be used in children and teens in the United States within weeks, its chief executive said in an interview ahead of the Reuters Total Health conference,...

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Several officials of the White House and US lawmakers celebrated Diwali with the Indian expats in Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

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Fed up with being confined to bed most of the time due to ill-health, a Delhi University professor couple allegedly hanged themselves to death in southeast Delhi's Govindpuri area on Wednesday...

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The British policeman guilty of murdering Londoner Sarah Everard in a crime that rocked the country launched an appeal on Wednesday against his life sentence.

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Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana today said the police "have not closed the roads" to the national capital and it is the protesting farmers who have put up tents at the border which are...

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Three social media networks massively popular with the youngest users -- TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube -- tried to convince skeptical US lawmakers Tuesday they are safe as worry about Facebook's...

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Today's Google doodle celebrates the life and legacy of Otto Wichterle, a Czech chemist who invented the soft contact lens. Wichterle was born on this day in 1913 in Prostejov, the Czech Republic...

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The Supreme Court will take a call today on whether there will be a court-monitored investigation into the explosive Pegasus snooping row that dominated headlines earlier this year.

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Loud protests by youths over unemployment greeted Bihar Chief Minister today at a rally in the run up to the October 30 bypoll at Tarapur Assembly segment.

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Three social media networks massively popular with the youngest users -- TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube -- tried to convince skeptical US lawmakers Tuesday they are safe as worry about Facebook's...

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Google's parent company Alphabet announced profits on Tuesday that jumped to $18.9 billion, even as the online colossus faces increased regulatory pressure and shifting of the lockdown lifestyles that...

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A medical panel of US government advisors endorsed the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in five-to-11-year-olds Tuesday, paving the way for younger children to get their shots within weeks.

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Internet infrastructure firm RightForge will host former US President Donald Trump's new social media platform, the hosting company's Chief Executive Officer Martin Avila told Axios.

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A Brazilian Senate commission voted to approve a damning report that recommends criminal charges be filed against President Jair Bolsonaro, including crimes against humanity, for his controversial...

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A Senate panel probing Brazil's pandemic response asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to suspend President Jair Bolsonaro from social media, as it prepared to vote on a damning report accusing him of...

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A medical panel of US government advisors endorsed the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in five-to-11-year-olds Tuesday, paving the way for younger children to get their shots within weeks.

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At least 11 people were killed late Tuesday in an attack on a village in eastern Iraq blamed on the Islamic State group, security sources said.

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At least five people were killed and as many injured in a blast at a firecracker shop in Sankarapuram town in Kallakurichi district in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, police said.

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The lawyer defending a man on trial over the 2019 plane crash that killed Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala said on Tuesday his involvement in the tragedy was "purely a paperwork issue".

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US President Joe Biden will meet with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Rome on Friday, the White House said Tuesday.

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After days of political slugfest in Pakistan, Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmad Anjum has been appointed as the Director General of the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

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Myanmar's ruling junta said on Tuesday it was not attending a regional summit because the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) did not invite officials from its government.

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Britain's 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the COP26 UN climate conference in Glasgow, after "advice to rest" from doctors following an overnight hospital stay, her Buckingham Palace...

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The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, held online last year due to the pandemic, will go ahead in person in December with the 2021 laureates both in attendance, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Tuesday.

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The US Food and Drug Administration is considering authorizing a COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11. The vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE has been available in the United States to kids...

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An executive at social media app TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, denied during a U.S. congressional hearing on Tuesday that it has given information to the Chinese government and said that...

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The World Health Organisation's technical advisory group on Tuesday sought "additional clarifications" from Bharat Biotech for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin to conduct a final "risk-benefit assessment"...

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Monday, October 25, 2021

Four people have died in a massive house fire that took place in the early hours of the morning today in Delhi's Old Seemapuri area.

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A 54-year-old man was arrested by the police for allegedly faking his death by killing a mentally unstable man in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra with a snakebite to claim insurance money worth USD...

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At least 18 worshippers were killed by gunmen who attacked a mosque in northern Nigeria during early morning prayers Monday, local authorities and police told The Associated Press. The attack took place in Mazakuka village in Mashegu local government area of the country’s Niger state. The attackers, believed to be ethnic Fulani nomadic herders, were able to escape.

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Fully vaccinated people can now travel to the United States as the country has announced lifting restrictions from November 8. President Joe Biden on Monday signed a presidential proclamation detailing the country's new international travel rules, which will replace the patchwork of blanket bans that have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic.

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Extreme tensions between religious groups of Bangladesh continue to persist despite actions by law enforcement officials and local government bodies after days of communal violence in various cities. Social media sites are being flooded with different rumours promoting communal violence as different sects try to foment hatred and draw sympathy to themselves, the local media reported.

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Two people were killed Monday and four others were injured -- including a police officer -- when a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in the US state of Idaho.

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The Modi government has a zero-tolerance policy towards terror, and while the situation has improved a lot in Jammu and Kashmir, "we should not be satisfied till total peace is achieved", Union Home...

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An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 was reported near Manali in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday morning, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

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Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede's father on Monday said his name is Dnyandev and not Dawood as claimed by NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik.

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The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the loaded weapon that killed a cinematographer had been sacked from a previous production for gun safety violations, the company said Monday.

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Two people were killed Monday and four others were injured -- including a police officer -- when a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in the US state of Idaho.

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Britain's spy agencies have given a contract to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host classified material in a deal aimed at boosting the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) for...

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The state-backed Russian hacking group that carried out last year's massive SolarWinds cyberattacks is behind a new and ongoing assault against US and European targets, Microsoft said Monday.

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China continues to bully its neighbours to try to coerce them into behaviour that is more in keeping with its national security or economic interests, the Pentagon said on Monday.

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The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the loaded weapon that killed a cinematographer had been sacked from a previous production for gun safety violations, the company said Monday.

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US President Joe Biden on Monday signed an order imposing new vaccine requirements for most foreign national air travelers and lifting severe travel restrictions on China, India and much of Europe...

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Japan's Princess Mako finally marries her university sweetheart Kei Komuro on Tuesday, but it won't be a lavish affair, with the couple forgoing traditional rites after years of controversy.

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The EU's drug watchdog on Monday approved booster doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine for all over-18s, amid concerns that protection levels dip after initial jabs.

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Kiran Gosavi, the Narcotics Control Bureau's "independent witness" in the cruise ship drugs case, against whom a lookout notice is out, surfaced today, saying he wants to surrender to the Uttar...

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A witness in the case against Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and others has alleged that Kiran Gosavi had planned to ask for Rs 25 crore from the superstar's manager to settle the case.

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Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik told NDTV today that the anti-drugs agency Narcotics Control Bureau is "hiding" behind the case of his son-in-law who was arrested in a drugs case, portraying his...

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A top US safety watchdog slammed Tesla for not implementing key recommendations to safeguard the automaker's driver assistance programs, in a letter Monday to chief executive Elon Musk.

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Sunday, October 24, 2021

The United States was losing the war to the Taliban so it chose negotiations as an alternative, said the former US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad.

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Although Bihar politician Lalu Yadav's homecoming after three years was capped by his elder son Tej Pratap Yadav washing his feet outside his home, the fetching moment came only after a day of...

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The United States was losing the war to the Taliban so it chose negotiations as an alternative, said the former US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad.

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The time for sidelining the people of Jammu has come to an end and now both Kashmir and Jammu will be developed together, Home Minister Amit Shah told a public rally.

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With a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state since the beginning of the festive season, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged people on Sunday to follow the safety protocols...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Uttar Pradesh on Monday. According to the Prime Minister's office, at around 10.30 am in Siddharthnagar, PM Modi will inaugurate nine medical...

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Nearly 17 people have been killed as clashes broke out between Taliban fighters and a group of armed men in the western Afghan province of Herat. According to a report with Sputnik, all victims, including children, died of gunshot wounds. 

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Calls were multiplying in Hollywood Sunday to ban the use of firearms on movie sets, three days after actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in a shocking on-set tragedy.

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Australian officials plan to roll out COVID-19 booster shots soon to prevent a resurgence of cases, as residents in the two largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne begin to enjoy more freedoms after...

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A rickshaw puller approached the police in this Uttar Pradesh district on Sunday after he was served a notice by the Income Tax (IT) department, asking him to pay over Rs 3 crore.

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The United States chose the calendar-based approach in its decisions on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and did not take into account the real situation in the country, former US Special...

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah Sunday said the "discriminatory" Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, was scrapped because of personal efforts of PM Modi to fulfil the dream of...

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Maharashtra minister and state NCP chief Jayant Patil today claimed that a number of leaders who earlier joined the BJP will return to the NCP in the coming months.

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Australian officials plan to roll out COVID-19 booster shots soon to prevent a resurgence of cases, as residents in the two largest cities of Sydney and Melbourne begin to enjoy more freedoms after...

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Archaeologists in Iraq revealed Sunday their discovery of a large-scale wine factory from the rule of the Assyrian kings 2,700 years ago, along with stunning monumental rock-carved royal reliefs.

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The United States chose the calendar-based approach in its decisions on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and did not take into account the real situation in the country, former US Special...

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A container fire that broke out on Saturday on a cargo ship carrying mining chemicals off British Columbia is smoldering and appears to be under control, Canadian Coast Guard officials said on Sunday.

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An avalanche Sunday on a snow-capped Ecuadoran volcano killed at least four climbers and injured a fifth, officials reported.

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After months of fierce political wrangling, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she expects agreement on a huge social spending package and a vote on a cross-party infrastructure bill this week,...

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Despite warnings from the local puja management committee after the violence in Cumilla earlier, the Bangladesh police were underprepared for the communal attack in Hajiganj upazila of Chandpur on...

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Babar Azam's side dominated the game from the word go and never allowed India to stage a comeback. The match was set up by paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi, who sent the Indian openers packing inside the...

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Saturday, October 23, 2021

Bathukamma, the floral festival of Telangana went global on Saturday as the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa was lit up in colours depicting the festival.

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Former US president Barack Obama urged voters Saturday to back the Democrat in a neck-and-neck state election touted as a test of the party's prospects in next year's midterm elections -- casting the...

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Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat said on Saturday that "overflow" of the situation in Afghanistan can happen in Jammu and Kashmir and "we have to prepare for it".

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries including Germany and the United States who appealed for the release of a jailed...

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A banner protesting the Saudi takeover of Newcastle by Crystal Palace supporters is being investigated by Metropolitan Police on suspicion of racism.

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One person was killed and eight people were injured in a shooting incident on Saturday night near student campus of the Fort Valley State University in the US state of Georgia, local authorities said.

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One person was killed and eight people were injured in a shooting incident on Saturday night near student campus of the Fort Valley State University in the US state of Georgia, local authorities said.

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UK Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss on Saturday said her country and India believed in freedom and democracy and can make the world safer and prosperous.

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Russia on Saturday placed a former prison inmate who leaked harrowing videos of rape and torture inside a Russian prison on a wanted list.

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Colombia's most-wanted drug trafficker, Dairo Antonio Usuga, also known as "Otoniel," was arrested by the country's authorities, the government said Saturday.

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A banner protesting the Saudi takeover of Newcastle by Crystal Palace supporters is being investigated by Metropolitan Police on suspicion of racism.

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The United Kingdom said on Saturday that talks with the European Union over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland had been constructive, but substantial differences remained.

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Israel said Saturday the United States had been informed in advance on its decision to designate six Palestinian civil society groups as "terrorist organisations", after criticism from the State...

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The police investigation into a fatal shooting with a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin on a film set was focusing Saturday on the specialist in charge of the weapon and the assistant director who...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries including Germany and the United States who appealed for the release of a jailed...

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An aromatherapy spray, manufactured in India and being sold in the US, has been found to contain a bacteria that sickened four people earlier this year, of which two persons died, America's public...

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Jacobabad city in Pakistans Sindh on Friday shut down after Hindu leader Lalchand Seetlani - president of the Hindu Panchayat Committee (HPC) - and his son Shiva, accused of keeping and selling...

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The police investigation into a fatal shooting with a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin on a film set was focusing Saturday on the specialist in charge of the weapon and the assistant director who...

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Namibia has discontinued the use of Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine following concerns raised by neighbouring South Africa, the health ministry said on Saturday.

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Visuals of empty LPG cylinders at a scrapyard in Madhya Pradesh have prompted the Congress to target the centre's Ujjwala scheme, with the Opposition party saying beneficiaries sold off the cylinders...

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The police investigation into a fatal shooting with a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin on a film set was focusing Saturday on the specialist in charge of the weapon and the assistant director who...

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Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Saturday mocked the BJP over the cruise ship drugs bust case, in which film superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan is one of the arrested accused, and said "drugs...

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Passengers of a city bus - which ferries women for free - in Chennai were in for surprise on Saturday when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin hopped onto a public bus and asked the women about the...

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TRUTH Social: Digital World Acquisition Corp Shares ended at $94.20, more than doubling its value from Thursday and more than nine times the price on Wednesday afternoon before the venture was...

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A senior member of al-Qaeda leader has been killed in US military airstrike in northwest Syria. According to a statement by Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson Major John Rigsbee, the al-Qaeda leader was identified as Abdul Hamid al-Matar. Meanwhile, there were no reports of civilian casualties as a result of the strike, which was conducted using an MQ-9 aircraft, Rigsbee said.

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A former Facebook worker reportedly told US authorities Friday the platform has put profits before stopping problematic content, weeks after another whistleblower helped stoke the firm's latest crisis...

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Swarming the streets of Pakistan, opposition parties on Friday demonstrated in various cities across the country to put pressure on the government amid surging inflation.

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The USmilitary killed senior al Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar in a drone strike in Syria on Friday, a USCentral Command spokesman said.

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US real estate mogul Robert Durst, already serving a life sentence for killing his best friend, has been charged with his wife's 1982 murder, officials said Friday.

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Sexual abuse victims in Colombia will be allowed to publish accusations against their alleged attackers on social media following a decision by the country's top court published on Friday.

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The UN said Friday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since...

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US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed strengthening European defenses in a telephone call Friday, the White House said, as Washington seeks to mend ties after a bitter...

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A former Colombian military officer wanted by Haitian authorities over the assassination of President Jovenel Moise has been captured in Jamaica, Colombian authorities said on Friday.

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The Islamic State terrorist group's Afghan branch on Friday said it was behind an explosion that brought down electricity lines and plunged Kabul into darkness.

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NASA said Friday it is now targeting February 2022 for the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1, the first step in America's plan to return humans to the Moon later this decade.

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The United States hopes to soon relocate around 150 US-trained Afghan Air Force pilots and other personnel detained in Tajikistan for more than two months after they flew there at the end of the...

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Canada has scrapped an official advisory urging its citizens to shun non-essential foreign travel, given its successful campaign to inoculate people against COVID-19, the country's top medical officer...

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Angela Merkel encouraged more women to get involved in German politics as she prepared to leave office after 16 years as the country's first female chancellor, saying it was still too male-dominated...

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The USNavy and Army tested hypersonic weapon component prototypes on Wednesday that will inform development of new weapons, the Pentagon said, calling the three tests successful.

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At least two Pakistani policemen were killed on Friday in clashes with supporters of a banned radical Islamist party, which has previously called for the expulsion of the French ambassador.

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Israel designated six leading Palestinian civil society groups as outlawed "terrorist organisations" Friday in a move swiftly condemned by the Palestinian Authority and international human rights...

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When a handful of scientists tried to publish rapid research into the role of climate change in record rainfall that lashed Britain in 2015, they were told their high-speed approach was "not science".

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The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear legal challenges on November 1 to a restrictive abortion law passed in Texas, but declined to block the controversial legislation in the meantime.

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British health officials on Friday said they were formally looking into a subvariant of the Delta strain of the coronavirus, after it was seen in a growing number of cases.

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Punjab is in safe hands under the Charanjit Singh Channi government, minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said today as he targeted former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh over his failure to...

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Thursday, October 21, 2021

A woman has died after being shot during the filming of a movie starring Alec Baldwin, US law enforcement officers said Thursday.

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Melbourne residents flocked to the city's pubs, restaurants and hair salons in the early hours of Friday after the world's most locked-down city emerged from its latest spate of restrictions designed...

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Hundreds of teachers in the western province of Herat gathered and called on the Taliban to pay their salaries, as they have not been paid for over four months, local media reported on Thursday.

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The ransomware group REvil was itself hacked and forced offline this week by a multi-country operation, according to three private-sector cyber experts working with the United States and one former...

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Melbourne residents flocked to the city's pubs, restaurants and hair salons in the early hours of Friday after the world's most locked-down city emerged from its latest spate of restrictions designed...

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A Haitian man asserting that he represents a gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries said in a video posted on YouTube on Thursday that he is willing to kill "these...

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Barbados has elected its first president, a key step in preparations to become a republic and remove Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as head of state of the Caribbean island.

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In a first, a US court has recognized animals as legal persons -- specifically, the descendants of Pablo Escobar's hippopotamuses who have thrived in Colombia since the notorious drug lord was killed...

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A new US study has found that people who have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine are less likely to experience stress.

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Queen Elizabeth II spent a night in hospital after being advised to rest and cancel a visit to Northern Ireland, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.

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Queen Elizabeth II spent a night in hospital after being advised to rest and cancel a visit to Northern Ireland, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.

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The United States successfully tested hypersonic missile technology, a new weapons system which is already being deployed by China and Russia, the US Navy said Thursday.

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A Haitian man asserting that he represents a gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries said in a video posted on YouTube on Thursday that he is willing to kill "these...

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Researchers found that winter weather in US critically depends on this conveyor belt-like system. As the AMOC slows because of climate change, the US will experience more extreme cold winter weather.

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A Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable on Thursday saved the life ofa 50-year-old woman after she slipped while boarding a moving train at a railway station in Mumbai.

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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi gave Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers advice Thursday on how to gain international recognition, during a visit to the neighbouring capital.

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Pakistan will continue to be on the ''Grey List'' of the FATF as it needs to "further demonstrate" that action is being taken against UN-designated terrorists like India's most wanted Hafiz Saeed and...

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Sameer Wankhede, the officer of the anti-drugs agency Narcotics Control Bureau investigating a number of Bollywood celebrities including megastar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, has brushed off...

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Pakistan will continue to be on the ''Grey List'' of the FATF as it needs to "further demonstrate" that action is being taken against UN-designated terrorists like India's most wanted Hafiz Saeed and...

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Afghanistan, India and Pakistan were among 11 countries singled out by US intelligence agencies on Thursday as being "highly vulnerable" in terms of their ability to prepare for crisis caused by...

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Welthungerhilfe (WHH), a German NGO and co-publisher of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) -- a peer reviewed report on hunger and malnutrition -- has refuted New Delhi's claim that India's fall in ranking...

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The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha - a conglomerate of 46 farmers' unions - has suspended activist Yogendra Yadav for a month after he visited the family of a BJP worker who was killed in the violence at...

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Former US President Donald Trump is all set to launch his own social media platform called 'TRUTH Social'. This development comes months after Trump was banned by several social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook.

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U.S. regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially.

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Millions in Melbourne are readying to come out of the world's longest COVID-19 lockdown on Thursday night after Victoria state hit a key vaccination target, with pubs, restaurants and cafes racing to...

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Former US president Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to launch his own social networking platform called "TRUTH Social," which is expected to begin its beta launch for "invited guests" next...

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Meghan Markle called Wednesday for the United States to provide paid family leave, confessing in an open letter to congressional leaders to feeling "overwhelmed" by the arrival of her daughter.

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Former US president Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to launch his own social networking platform called "TRUTH Social," which is expected to begin its beta launch for "invited guests" next...

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A US commission on religious freedom has said that it is "gravely troubled"over the recent wave of violence against the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh and urged the government of Prime...

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A US commission on religious freedom has said that it is "gravely troubled"over the recent wave of violence against the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh and urged the government of Prime...

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A US medical team has succeeded in temporarily attaching a pig's kidney to a person, a transplant breakthrough hailed as a "potential miracle" by the surgeon who led the procedure.

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Former US president Donald Trump announced plans Wednesday to launch his own social networking platform called "TRUTH Social," which is expected to begin its beta launch for "invited guests" next...

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Meghan Markle called Wednesday for the United States to provide paid family leave, confessing in an open letter to congressional leaders to feeling "overwhelmed" by the arrival of her daughter.

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Tesla Inc has urged the Prime Minister's Office or PMO to slash import taxes on electric vehicles before it enters the market, four sources told Reuters, ratcheting up demands that faced objections...

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"So many things happen within a day/week/month/or year, it's hard to keep track, but the one thing that's constant is the love I have for you," wrote the actress for her husband

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North Korea said on Thursday the United States was overreacting to its recent missile test and questioned the sincerity of Washington's offers of talks, warning of consequences.

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A US medical team has succeeded in temporarily attaching a pig's kidney to a person, a transplant breakthrough hailed as a "potential miracle" by the surgeon who led the procedure.

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Nine months after launching what it called "the world's biggest vaccination drive", India is set to complete 1 billion or 100 crore doses today, with the government planning festivities for a "great...

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday authorized using a so-called "mix and match" strategy for eligible people who require a booster shot of a Covid vaccine after their primary...

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USPresident Joe Biden said on Wednesday he is concerned about Chinese hypersonic missiles, days after a media report that Beijing had tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide weapon.

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Rwandan prosecutors said Wednesday they have filed an appeal against a court ruling that sentenced "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina to 25 years in prison on terrorism charges.

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Mahjubin Hakimi, a member of the Afghan women's national volleyball team who played in the youth age group, was beheaded by the Taliban in Kabul. In an interview with the Persian Independent, Suraya Afzali (a pseudonym), one of the coaches of the Afghan women's national volleyball team, confirmed that the athlete had been killed, but said that no one other than Mahjabin's family knew the exact time and manner of the incident.

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Russia and Central Asia powerbrokers agreed Wednesday to work with the Taliban to promote security in the region and called on Afghanistan's new leaders to implement "moderate" policies.

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The BJP and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) are spreading "terrorism" in Mumbai, NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik alleged on Wednesday as he continued his tirade against the central...

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Four terrorists of Lashkar-e-Toiba who were involved in the recent killings of three migrant workers have been shot dead in back-to-back encounters in Shopian and Kulgam districts of Jammu and...

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

North Korea announced Wednesday that it had tested a newly developed missile designed to be launched from a submarine, the first such weapons test in two years and one it says will bolster its military’s underwater operational capability. The test Tuesday was the fifth missile launch since September and came as North Korea steps up pressure on Washington and Seoul to abandon what Pyongyang sees as hostile policies such as joint US-South Korea military drills and international sanctions on the North.

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has tested positive for COVID-19 and will work from home per health guidelines, spokesperson Marsha Espinosa said.

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Terminal Two at Britain's Manchester Airport will reopen after Greater Manchester Police found no security threat following reports of a suspicious package, a spokesperson for the airport said on...

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The number of people hospitalised for COVID-19 in France went up for the third day in a row on Tuesday, a trend not seen for almost two months, according to French health authorities.

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A Haitian gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries is asking for $17 million -- or $1 million each -- to release them, according to a top Haitian official.

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A 61-year old British man drowned on Tuesday while trying to save his two grandsons in the sea off the island of Crete, Greece's coastguard said.

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A group of USlawmakers said Facebook Inc cannot be trusted to manage cryptocurrency and urged the social media platform to discontinue immediately a small pilot of its cryptocurrency wallet named...

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FBI agents on Tuesday raided Washington and New York City homes linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire under USsanctions who once employed Paul Manafort, a chairman of Donald Trump's 2016...

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The United States on Tuesday vowed to do all in its power to free US and Canadian missionaries taken hostage in Haiti, after kidnappers demanded $1 million for each of the group of 17.

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Boeing is aiming for a test flight of its unmanned CST-100 Starliner capsule in the first half of next year and a potential launch of its crewed spacecraft at the end of 2022, company officials said...

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The UN Security Council will hold an emergency closed-door meeting on North Korea on Wednesday, diplomats told AFP after state media said Pyongyang had successfully tested a "new type" of...

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A Haitian gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries is asking for $17 million -- or $1 million each -- to release them, according to a top Haitian official.

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The senator leading a probe into Brazil's handling of COVID-19 has recommended that Jair Bolsonaro face 13 criminal charges, including homicide, for decisions that allegedly encouraged the virus'...

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North Korea successfully tested a "new type" of submarine-launched ballistic missile, state media reported early Wednesday.

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Gita Gopinath will leave her post and return to Harvard University's economics department in January, the Fund announced Tuesday.

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Gita Gopinath will leave her post and return to Harvard University's economics department in January, the Fund announced Tuesday.

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The Taliban have promised plots of land to relatives of suicide bombers who attacked U.S. and Afghan soldiers, in a provocative gesture that seems to run counter to their efforts to court international support.

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Africa's fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118 million poor people face drought, floods or extreme heat, and climate change could shrink the continent's economy by 3% by mid-century,...

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A plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Tuesday in Texas, with all 21 passengers and crew on board scrambling to safety before the aircraft burst into flames.

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Nepal Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka on Tuesday held a telephonic conversation with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi with a focus on further ramping up bilateral relations, including COVID-19 vaccine...

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Farmer groups protesting the new central laws near Delhi have called in for reinforcements ahead of a key Supreme Court hearing this week that may mean the end of their year-long blockade.

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