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Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. File. | Photo Credit: AP Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was charged Tuesday (August 27) with sedition over a speech he made that allegedly questioned the integrity of the country’s previous king. Mr. Muhyiddin, who led Malaysia from March 2020 until August 2021, pleaded not guilty in a…
File photo of Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R C Bhargava | Photo Credit: PTI India has proven the ‘fallacy’ of incompatibility of rapid economic growth and a democratic political system, and the continuity of government and policies give industry the confidence of sustained high growth, Maruti Suzuki India Chairman R C Bhargava said on Tuesday…
The embezzlement led to the collapse and FDIC takeover of the bank. (Representational) A former chief executive officer (CEO) of a US bank has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison for embezzling $47 million in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme. According to CNBC, Shan Hanes, the former Heartland Tri-State Bank CEO, fell…
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The story so far: On August 24, NASA said Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule that took astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS), as part of its first crewed test flight, wasn’t safe enough to transport them back. Instead, NASA extended Williams’s and Wilmore’s stay onboard the ISS until February 2025,…
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USA’s Major League Baseball catcher, Danny Jansen, registered a never-seen-before feat in the sporting world, as he went on to play for two teams in the same match. It all started when Jansen was batting for the Toronto Blue Jays on 26 June against Boston Red Sox, but the game was soon suspended…
An FIR has been registered and police are scanning CCTV footage to zero in on the accused Mumbai: A 19-year-old nursing trainee was raped, allegedly by an auto-rickshaw driver, in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district. According to preliminary information, the victim had taken an auto-rickshaw ride home when the driver offered her drinking water. The water was…
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Sri Lanka’s main Marxist partry leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka’s main Marxist leader and a key presidential hopeful in elections next month pledged on Monday (August 26) to selectively welcome foreign investors, especially in green energy, if he wins. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, a 55-year-old former agricultural minister and vocal…
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In Jerusalem’s Old City, nearly all souvenir shops are closed. In Haifa’s flea market, forlorn merchants polish their wares on empty streets. Airlines are canceling flights, businesses are failing and luxury hotels are half empty. Nearly 11 months into the war with Hamas, Israel’s economy is struggling as the country’s leaders grind ahead with an…
Officials said it was the boys fathers gun. A 5-year-old boy in Utah accidentally shot himself to death with a gun he found at home. While playing in his parents’ bedroom on August 22, Brooks Thomas Wilson discovered a loaded 9mm pistol and, tragically, it discharged when he picked it up, causing a fatal head…
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Sumit Nagal in action© X (Twitter) India’s top player Sumit Nagal crashed out of the US Open, the last Grand Slam of the season, after suffering a straight-set defeat against Dutch player Tallon Griekspoor in the opening round in New York. Nagal struggled with his first serve, winning only 61 percent of those…
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