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Over half of Sri Lanka’s population ‘multidimensionally vulnerable’: UNDP study

September 2, 2023 admin

People queue up to buy kerosene for domestic use at a supply station in Colombo on May 26, 2022. The South Asian nation’s 22 million people suffered massive shortages of essentials in 2022 after the government ran out of dollars to finance imports, including life-saving medicines. File | Photo Credit: AFP The crushing economic crisis…

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Tharman Shanmugaratnam joins growing list of Indian-origin leaders dominating world politics

September 2, 2023 admin

With Tharman Shanmugaratnam winning Singapore’s presidential election, he joins a long list of Indian-origin leaders who are dominating politics at important world capitals. Mr. Shanmugaratnam, 66, received 70.4 per cent of the votes in the presidential election held on Friday. “Singaporeans have chosen Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam to be our next president by a decisive margin,”…

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Pakistan caretaker PM Anwarul Haq Kakar calls inflated electricity bills “non-issue”

September 2, 2023 admin

Anwaar ul Haq Kakar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Pakistan Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar called the matter of inflated electricity bills, which have led to the countrywide protests, a “non-issue”, Dawn News reported on September 2. Mr. Kakar also said it was raised by some political parties and was a “tool in their…

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All You Need To Know About Russia’s ‘Superweapon’

September 2, 2023 admin

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile blasts off during a test launch. The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) of Russia, commonly known as “Satan II” in Western media and once described as invincible by President Vladimir Putin, has been deployed for combat duty, the head of the state space agency Roscosmos said Friday. “The Sarmat…

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Pregnant Woman, Accused Of Shoplifting, Shot Dead By Cops In US’s Ohio

September 2, 2023 admin

The officer standing in front of the hood of the car fires through the windshield. Ohio: The Ohio police have released new footage of the incident in which a 21-year-old pregnant woman, Ta’kiya Young, was fatally shot dead by a cop after she was accused of shoplifting at a grocery store in Columbus last week,…

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North Korea fires cruise missiles into the sea after U.S.-South Korean military drills end

September 2, 2023 admin

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes what it says the test-firing of strategic cruisemissiles. | file photo | Photo Credit: AP North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the sea Saturday, South Korea’s military said, extending its weapons testing activities in response to the United States-South Korea summer military drills. South Korea’s military detected the launches…

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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Ex-Harrods Owner Whose Son Died With Princess Diana: 5 Points

September 2, 2023 admin

Mohamed Al-Fayed was born in Alexandria and was the son of a schoolteacher. Mohamed Al-Fayed was an outspoken and successful Egyptian business tycoon. His death comes almost 26 years to the day after the car crash in Paris that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997. Here are…

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Morning Digest | India’s first solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 launches today; ED arrests Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal in bank fraud case, and more

September 2, 2023 admin

Preparations in the final phase for India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya L1 onboard the PSLV-C57, ahead of its launch on Sept. 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s first solar observatory mission Aditya-L1 to be launched at 11.50 a.m. today India’s first solar observatory mission, named Aditya-L1, will be launched onboard the Polar Satellite Launch…

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Russia deploys ICBM that Putin says will make enemies ‘think twice’

September 2, 2023 admin

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in northwestern Russia. File. | Photo Credit: AP The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said on September 1 that the country has deployed an advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that President Vladimir Putin once said will…

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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Billionaire Whose Son Died With Princess Diana, Dead At 94

September 2, 2023 admin

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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