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Ukraine’s military intelligence said on Friday that a recent drone attack on an airport in northwestern Russia which damaged several transport planes was carried out from within Russian territory. The claim came as Kyiv said the police in the Capital were responding to bomb threats as children returned to classrooms for a second academic year…
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September 01, 2023 10:31 pm | Updated September 02, 2023 01:33 am IST – Singapore According to official results, Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected as the President of Singapore, on September 1, 2023. Here he is seen meeting his supporters. | Photo Credit: Reuters Singapore’s former deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected president Friday, earning…
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September 01, 2023 10:29 pm | Updated 10:29 pm IST – Al Aqaba, Palestinian Territories Palestinian gunmen wait to escort the body of Abdulrahim Ghannam, 36, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Aqaba, near Tubas, on September 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli forces on Friday killed a Palestinian in the…
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Denmark said Friday that it had told Russia to reduce the number of staff at its Copenhagen embassy following Russian requests for visas for “intelligence officers”. Denmark’s ministry of foreign affairs said the Russian mission would need to reduce its staff to match the level of the Danish embassy in Moscow, and that it had…
Former Singapore deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected president. (File) Singapore: Former Singapore deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected president Friday, according to official results, in the city-state’s first contested vote for the largely ceremonial position in more than a decade. The Elections Department declared the 66-year-old economist as the winner over two…
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People queue up to buy kerosene for domestic use at a supply station in Colombo on May 26, 2022. | Photo Credit: AFP Sri Lanka has formally announced an end to the fuel rationing scheme imposed one year ago during the height of the unprecedented economic crisis, a senior minister said on Friday, hinting at…
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The German man was an adolescent when he worked as a SS watchman at the camp (Representational) Berlin: German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a former SS guard, now 98 years old, for complicity in the killings of over 3,300 people at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. The German man, unnamed…
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Thailand’s former PM Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Thailand’s jailed former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra had his prison sentence cut from eight years to one by the King on Friday, just days after he returned from a decade and a half in exile….
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China’s map triggers strong reactions from India and other Chinese neighbours, how much is this a part of a larger strategy for land-grab and what it does it mean for ties- and will the map, coming days after a Modi-Xi meeting and days before the G-20 summit mean more trouble for the India-China relationship ahead? …
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India will increase up to 50% of the financial grant for nine ongoing high-impact community projects in Sri Lanka, the Indian High Commission said here on Friday. With the increase in the financial allocation for the projects under the India-Sri Lanka High Impact Community Development Project (HICDP) framework, the current grant for the initiative stands…
