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This year, aid from Berlin amounted to 8 billion euros. (File) Berlin: Germany, the second largest contributor of aid to Ukraine, plans to halve its military aid to Kyiv in 2025, a parliamentary source told AFP Saturday. Instead, the government of Olaf Scholz will bank on money generated from frozen Russian assets to continue supporting…
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A health worker attends to a girl suffering from mpox, at a treatment centre in Munigi, eastern Congo, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A total of 18,737 suspected or confirmed cases of mpox were reported in Africa since the beginning of the year, including 1,200 cases in one week alone, the African…
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Three crew members from a Chinese fishing boat were missing on Saturday (August 17, 2024) after their ship collided with an unidentified vessel and sank off the coast of a Taiwanese island, Taiwan’s coast guard said. China claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and relations between the two have deteriorated in recent years….
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The incident took place on Friday morning. (Representational) Mumbai: Five persons have been arrested here after a bag with an inflammable chemical caught fire before it was loaded on a Mumbai-Addis Ababa flight of Ethiopian Airlines at the Mumbai international airport, police said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday morning. Samir Narayanchandra Bishwas…
A view of a damaged bridge over the Seym river in the Glushkovo district, following a Ukrainian strike in the Kursk region, Russia, in this still image taken from a social media video released on August 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Ukraine had used Western rockets, likely U.S.-made HIMARS, to…
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The administration made it clear there were no casualties. Bhagalpur: A portion of an under-construction bridge in Bihar, which was being “dismantled”, crashed into the river Ganges river on Saturday, officials said. The administration made it clear there were no casualties. Video footage of a slab of the bridge, connecting Bhagalpur and Khagaria districts, has…
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The X service remains available to the people of Brazil (Representational) Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. The decision to close the office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to…
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The post has accumulated more than 878,000 views.(Representative pic) In the wake of the Kolkata rape-murder case, a retired colonel recently took to social media to share why he supports his daughter’s decision to settle outside the country. In a post on X, user Col Sanjay Pande shared that his daughter completed her three years…
Palestinians grieve at the funeral for more than 15 people, including several children and women, killed in an Israeli strike, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP As mediators expressed optimism for an imminent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, violence raged on Saturday (August…
The first such service is now available at Sahibabad RRTS station (Representational) New Delhi: Passengers travelling on Namo Bharat trains can now rent a power bank with the rental plans starting at Rs 50, the NCRTC said in a statement. The first such service is now available at Sahibabad RRTS station, it said. In addition,…
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