Month: July 2024

Chaos swirled up by Biden’s debate stumble causes cracks in White House

July 11, 2024 admin

Representational image of U.S. President Joe Biden | Photo Credit: Reuters The pressure and chaos swirling since U.S. President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance is causing cracks in the White House that until now had been marked by discipline and loyalty. For three-plus years, the Biden administration has been mostly a restrained and staid operation,…

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China, Belarus Hold Army Drills Near NATO Border Amid Rising Tensions

July 11, 2024 admin

Moving closer to Russia, China is becoming increasingly hostile to NATO. Warsaw: China is staging army drills with Belarus this week at NATO’s eastern border, in a sign of escalating tensions between Beijing and the US-led defence alliance. The joint “antiterrorist” exercises on Russian ally Belarus’s soil near the Polish border come as NATO leaders…

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Post Gautam Gambhir’s Appointment, Rohit Shama’s Wife Ritika Pays Ultimate Tribute To Rahul Dravid

July 11, 2024 admin

Rohit Sharma’s family with Rahul Dravid© X (Twitter) Gautam Gambhir‘s appointment as Team India’s head coach concluded Rahul Dravid‘s tenure in charge of the Indian men’s cricket team. Dravid led the Indian team to triumph in T20 World Cup 2024 after disappointments in the 2021 T20 World Cup and the 2023 ODI World…

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Apple Warns iPhone Users In India Of Pegasus-Like “Mercenary Spyware Attack”

July 11, 2024 admin

Representational Image New Delhi: Tech giant Apple has issued a fresh warning to iPhone users in at least 98 countries, including in India, about a potential new mercenary spyware attack like ‘Pegasus’. According to the Apple warning, it has detected that “you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely…

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Peace talks in South Sudan face collapse over new law

July 11, 2024 admin

Salva Kiir Gregorio Borgia. | Photo Credit: AP South Sudan peace talks that almost reached completion faced a stumbling block with opposition groups demanding a newly passed Bill allowing the detention of people without an arrest warrant scratched out in order to sign a proposed agreement. Kenya has been hosting high-level meetings since May between…

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China prepares to boost Shanghai bloc to counter the West

July 11, 2024 admin

China’s President Xi Jinping with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit in Astana on July 3. | Photo Credit: AFP China is seeking to strengthen its leadership of an expanding bloc of nations it sees as a potential counterweight to the world order led by the United States. Leaders of the Shanghai…

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2 UP Men Imitate Scene From Mirzapur Series For A Reel, Arrested

July 11, 2024 admin

They were arrested on charges of disturbing public peace. Varanasi: Two youth, Ved Prakash Yadav and Aman Yadav Katta, were arrested for imitating a scene from the popular OTT series ‘Mirzapur’ for a social media reel, the police said. According to the police, the two have been arrested over a viral video showing Ved taking…

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Hezbollah goes old-school to counter Israel’s modern surveillance methods

July 11, 2024 admin

Coded messages, landline phones, and pagers: following the killing of senior commanders in targeted Israeli airstrikes, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, has been using some low-tech strategies to try to evade its foe’s sophisticated surveillance technology, informed sources said. The sides have been trading fire since Hezbollah’s Palestinian ally in the Gaza Strip, Hamas,…

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip Implant More Or Less Stable In 1st Patient

July 11, 2024 admin

Elon Musk said during a live stream on X that the Neuralink device doesn’t harm the brain. The tiny wires of Neuralink’s brain chip implant used in the first participant in a trial run by Elon Musk’s company have become “more or less very stable”, a company executive said on Wednesday. The company had in…

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Pilot Aborts Takeoff After Smoke Billows From Tyres

July 11, 2024 admin

The passengers were re-accommodated on a replacement flight from Tampa A video captured the dramatic scene of an American Airlines plane suffering a tyre blowout during takeoff. Smoke and flames were visible as the aircraft aborted takeoff. Thankfully, emergency vehicles quickly reached the scene on the runway. American Airlines reported that flight 590 had a…

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