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Hezbollah and Israel’s military have been trading fire at the frontier almost daily Beirut/Jerusalem: Four fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed along the border with Israel on Saturday, the Iran-backed group said, taking to 17 the number of its members it says have died during two weeks of escalating violence in the frontier…
File image shows delegates participating in the conference on facilitating the CTBT on Nov 11, 2001 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. | Photo Credit: AP As tension between Moscow and Washington mounts, Russia on Wednesday passed the second and third readings of a Bill to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear…
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A former Philadelphia police officer has been sentenced to 15 to 40 years in state prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting women and girls — often while in uniform and in the back of his police vehicle. Patrick Heron, 54, entered the pleas Friday after reaching an agreement with prosecutors in advance of a…
Illustration: Sreejith R.Kumar Muhammad Yunus and his grassroots Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for lending a social conscience to capitalism and “their efforts to create economic and social development from below” in Bangladesh. At 83, the “banker to the poor” does not appear to be slowing down. He strives, he asserts,…
When the state of Israel was declared in May 1948 in Palestine, five Arab countries attacked the newly created state, launching the first Arab-Israeli war. In the subsequent months, some 7,00,000 Arabs from Palestine, mostly from areas that became part of the Jewish state, were uprooted from their homes. Most of them took refuge in…
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“Together, we will post a record victory, Jai-Jai Rajasthan”, Vasundhara Raje said. Jaipur: After being named in the BJP’s second list of candidates for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly polls, former chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Saturday expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party’s national president JP Nadda for reposing their faith…
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Gaza’s population of 2.4 million is largely made up of descendants of those refugees Gaza: Omar Ashur became a refugee during the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” experienced by Palestinians following Israel’s creation 75 years ago and now fears the ongoing bombardment of Gaza will again force him into exile. A retired general from the Palestinian Authority…
Bipin Batra joined National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences in 2015 New Delhi: The CBI has booked Bipin Batra for allegedly illegally occupying the post of Additional Director of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), which establishes standards for post-graduate examinations in modern medicines in the country, officials said. They said…
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Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates stands for a photograph, during the Cairo Summit for Peace, with Charles Michel, President of the European Council, HE Nikos Christodoulides, President of Cyprus, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, Abdel…
Manchester City beat Brighton 2-1 on Saturday to return to the Premier League summit on a day when the action on the pitch was overshadowed by the death of England World Cup winner Bobby Charlton. Charlton’s family announced that the former midfielder, who scored 49 international goals, had “passed peacefully in the early hours of…
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