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Brooke Rollins. File | Photo Credit: AP President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday (November 24, 2024) that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his Agriculture Secretary, the last of his picks to lead executive agencies and another choice from within his established circle of advisers and allies. The nomination must be…
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The logo of the COP29 United Nations climate change conference is seen next to the temporary fences in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: The 29th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP), arguably the most important of the UN’s climate conferences, was scheduled to end on…
Rahul Mamkootathil led a victory rally in Palakkad on Saturday after winning the Palakkad Assembly constituency seat. | Photo Credit: K K Mustafah The byelections to the Palakkad and Chelakkara Assembly constituencies in Kerala saw the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) retain Palakkad by a record margin of 18,840 votes and the Left Democratic Front…
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When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka in September, and his National People’s Power [NPP] alliance swept the general elections on November 14, most international news headlines stamped the winners as ‘Marxist’. The tag was hardly positive or even neutral with its connotations of wild-eyed radicalism. The insinuation was that Sri Lanka’s…
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“He’s [Donald Trump] essentially pimping out our men and women in uniform to a foreign power who’s the highest bidder… He is unfit to be our commander-in-chief.” These were the words of Tusli Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence, back in 2019. Clearly Ms. Gabbard’s loyalties have drastically changed since then. …
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People walk next to the logo of COP29 United Nations climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters India strongly objected to a climate finance deal agreed at the United Nations COP29 summit on Sunday (November 24, 2024), but their objection was raised after the deal was formally adopted by…
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IPL Auction. Image used for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu Off the Red Sea, Jeddah — the second-largest city of Saudi Arabia — is considered the gateway to the holy city of Mecca. Over the next two days, however, the Benchmark Arena will not only put the nation on the cricketing map, but also…
Civil defense members and rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, Lebanon November 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli airstrikes Saturday (November 23, 2024) in central Beirut killed at least 20 people, officials said, as the once-rare attacks on…
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Alick Athanaze of West Indies. File | Photo Credit: AFP Mikyle Louis and Alick Athanaze fell agonizingly short of maiden centuries as the West Indies rallied from 25-2 to reach 250-5 against Bangladesh on the first day of the first test. Louis was out for 97 and Athanaze on 90 after sharing a dogged 140-run…
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Imagine yourself in a mathematics class. The teacher is working out a problem on the board, and deftly arrives at an answer and starts explaining it to the class. Even while they were at it, you noticed that a mistake had been committed along the way, thereby arriving at an erroneous answer. Would you raise…
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