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A view of a street in Monrovia. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said Tuesday (August 18, 2026), in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration’s policy aimed at deterring illegal migration. Also…
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View of the building where the fire erupted in Kolkata, on August 19, 2026 | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Nine Bangladeshi nationals died in a fire inside a hotel in Kolkata in the early hours of Wednesday (August 19, 2026), while six others were injured, a top Kolkata Police official said. The fire started around…
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CPI(M) flag. File | Photo Credit: Moorthy G. The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) suspended M. Ayyasamy, the tahsildar of Guziliamparai in Dindigul district, for ordering Village Assistants and Revenue Inspectors to collect details of members and leaders of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist). He…
Donald Trump and Heidi Overton. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen White House policy aide Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday (August 18, 2026), months after previous chief Marty Makary quit. Also read | Trump announces staff secretary…
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Ukraine’s former Minister of Defence Mykhailo Fedorov. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine’s popular ex-Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, sacked last month, on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) called for a move towards elections that have been put off because of the Russian invasion. Also read | Ukraine aims a drone blitz at Moscow as Russian missiles…
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Israel strikes air base in northwest Syria to prevent Turkish troops from deploying Israel struck an air base in northwest Syria early yesterday, saying it aimed to prevent Turkish troops from deploying there. Turkey, which has close ties with the Syrian government and has been providing assistance to Syria’s military, has tense relations with Israel….
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Seeking accountability, transparency, a time-bound recruitment drive, and the filling of vacant posts at the earliest by various recruitment commissions and the Uttar Pradesh Government, government job aspirants on Tuesday announced that they would hold a Student Panchayat on August 25. They have named it the Hunkar Panchayat, to which students from across the State…
International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) imposed sanctions against International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan and another senior official as part of its campaign against the body that it accuses of being “politicized.” Also read | ICC is at…
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Senior Congress leaders, K. C. Venugopal, Shashi Tharoor, Ramesh Chennithala, Kodikunnil Suresh, V. D. Satheesan and others celebrate UDF’s victory in Kerala assembly elections. File | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran News Analysis Three months after coming to power in Keralam, the Congress is scouting for a new State party chief after incumbent Sunny Joseph was…
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Meta knowingly hooked and exploited children, a U.S. federal court heard Tuesday (August 18, 2026) in a trial against the social media giant on charges that it deliberately made Instagram and Facebook addictive to young users. Also read | Meta trial that could reshape Facebook, Instagram gets underway In what many experts have called social…
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