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New York’s mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix dripping faucets and otherwise conserve water, issuing a drought watch Saturday after a parched October here and in much of the United States. A drought watch is the first of three potential levels of water-saving directives, and Adams pitched it in a social media video…
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A house covered in mud is pictured in an area affected by floods in Paiporta, a town in the region of Valencia, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Spain is deploying 10,000 more troops and police officers to the eastern Valencia region devastated by historic floods that have killed 211 people, Prime Minister…
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President Joe Biden talks with volunteers at a campaign office in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Barack Obama once said if there were no Scranton, Pennsylvania, there would be no Joe Biden. The sitting president, whose term ends in January, returned to his childhood hometown on Saturday for a final campaign stop in…
There are some scientific books that change the course of how we view and perceive the world around us. English naturalist Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species brought us natural selection and the theory of evolution. English polymath Isaac Newton gave us his laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation in his…
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Washington: How much influence can the world’s richest man have over one of the world’s oldest democracies? Next week’s elections are not just about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris but also a measure of Elon Musk’s influence on American democracy. Although Musk has donated modestly to both Republicans and Democrats in the past, including $5,000…
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Washington: United States of America votes on November 5. The stage is set for the 2024 presidential election. The two major political parties – Democrats and Republicans – had nominated their candidates through a series of primaries and caucuses. On the Republican side, it is former President Donald Trump. His opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris,…
Security forces during the encounter with terrorists in Khanyar Srinagar/New Delhi: The Indian Army successfully neutralised two terrorists in the general area of Halkan Gali in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag in a significant counter-terrorism operation, a defence spokesperson said today. Acting on specific intelligence, security forces had been tracking the terror group’s activities for over…
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Washington: Donald Trump is taking a bold move in the final days of his presidential campaign by visiting New Mexico and Virginia, two states that have historically been difficult for Republican candidates to win. The former president campaigned in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday and was scheduled to visit Salem, Virginia, on Saturday, in an…
Dubai: A young woman stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university on Saturday in an apparent protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code, according to online videos and media reports. A video posted on social media showed security guards at a branch of the Islamic Azad University detaining the unidentified woman. University spokesperson…
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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday emphasised that friendships are no longer exclusive, especially in the emerging multipolar world, adding that some global partners might be more complicated than others in the world as they might not always share the “same culture of mutual respect or ethos of diplomatic etiquette.” At a…
