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The rocket carrying Aditya L1 is scheduled to lift-off today New Delhi: India’s first solar mission Aditya L1 on board the PSLV will lift off from Sriharikota today for its 125-day voyage towards the Sun. Aditya L1 is designed for providing remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observations of solar wind. Here’s…
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Al-Fayed died on Wednesday – a day before his son and Princess Diana’s 26th death anniversary London: Mohamed al-Fayed, the self-made Egyptian billionaire who bought the Harrods department store and promoted the discredited conspiracy theory that the British royal family was behind the death of his son and Princess Diana, has died, his family said….
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Belarus said the incident took place over the Grodno region on the border. (Representational) Warsaw, Poland: Poland on Friday denied a military helicopter had breached Belarus’s airspace, calling Minsk’s claims “lies and provocations” at a time of escalating tensions between the neighbours. Relations between Minsk and Warsaw, frozen for years, have hit new lows since…
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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu. File. | Photo Credit: AP Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu plans to attend the G20 summit in India to try to promote foreign investment in Africa’s largest economy and mobilize global capital to develop infrastructure, his spokesman said on Friday. Mr. Tinubu has embarked on the country’s boldest reforms in decades, which…
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Russia accused Dmitry Muratov of creating, distributing content from other foreign agents. (File) Moscow, Russia: Russia on Friday added respected journalist and Nobel Prize co-recipient Dmitry Muratov to its list of foreign agents, a label authorities commonly use to stifle critics. The move targeting the editor of Russia’s top independent publication Novaya Gazeta is part…
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Authorities announced the hostage-takings on Thursday. (Representational) Quito, Ecuador: Inmates in six Ecuadoran prisons on Friday released the 50 guards and seven police officers who had been taken hostage in the latest spasm of narcotics-related mayhem, the state prison institute said. The prison guards and police “were freed and are undergoing medical evaluation to verify…
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded journalist Dmitry Muratov. File. | Photo Credit: AP Russian authorities on September 1 declared newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to be a foreign agent, continuing the country’s moves to suppress critics and independent reporting. Russian law allows for individuals and organizations receiving funding from abroad…
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Effectively, the bill only targets Google and Meta. (Representational) Ottawa, Canada: Ottawa on Friday spelled out how a new law requiring digital giants to pay publishers for news content will work in practice, including how much it could cost Meta and Google. The bill aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen…
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Proud Boys members including Zachary Rehl, left, Ethan Nordean, center, and Joseph Biggs, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. | Photo Credit: AP A one-time leader in the Proud Boys far-right extremist group was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for his role…
Earlier, Supreme Court had said that it doesn’t possess any expertise on this issue. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has posted for September 6 matter relating to the Cauvery water-sharing dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Prashant Kumar Mishra was informed on Friday that in pursuance to its…
