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Australia’s Prime Minister Antony Albanese. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pacific Island leaders endorsed a landmark regional policing plan at a summit in Tonga on Wednesday (August 28, 2024), a contentious move seen as trying to limit China’s security role in the region. The plan seeks to create up to four regional police training centres and…
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Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are now ramping up their campaigns in seven key battleground states. Savannah, United States: US Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned across southern Georgia by bus on Wednesday as Democrats try to harness a surge of enthusiasm and put the swing state back in play in November’s election against Donald…
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An olive grove is watered through irrigation pipes from a container in the village of Nea Silata in northern Greece. | Photo Credit: AP Six weeks before harvest, there is no water left in the ground for farmer Dimitris Papadakis’s olive grove in northern Greece, so he has started a new morning routine. Joined by…
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The report also showed that teens from low-income families were more likely to not use a condom. Copenhagen: Condom use among sexually active teens has declined significantly in Europe over the past decade, with rates of unprotected sex “worryingly high”, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “This is putting young people at significant risk of…
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Union Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya holds a meeting with trade union members on the proposed employment-linked incentive (ELI) scheme, on Wednesday (August 28, 2024). | Photo Credit: ANI Telegram founder-CEO Pavel Durov charged, banned from leaving France France on Wednesday (August 28, 2024) charged Pavel Durov, the founder and chief of Telegram, with a…
A major typhoon made landfall on Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu on Thursday morning. Tokyo: Typhoon Shanshan slammed into Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu early Thursday, with authorities advising thousands of people to evacuate and issuing the highest warning level for wind and storm surges. The weather office said that Japan’s most powerful…
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The UN has reported that one of its humanitarian vehicles in Gaza hit by Israeli gunfire. United Nations: The United Nations has reported that one of its humanitarian vehicles in Gaza, marked with the organisation’s insignia, was fired upon 10 times by Israeli forces, including shots targeting its front windows, while it was part of…
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Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov. File | Photo Credit: AP France on Wednesday (August 28, 2024) charged Pavel Durov, the founder and chief of Telegram, with a litany of violations related to the messaging app and banned him from leaving the country while allowing the billionaire to walk free after four days under arrest. Mr. Durov,…
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The chief of Telegram Pavel Durov on Wednesday was charged by the French judiciary. Paris: The chief of Telegram Pavel Durov on Wednesday was charged by the French judiciary with a litany of violations related to the messaging app but allowed to go free while being banned from leaving the country. Durov was granted conditional…
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There were no traces of illicit drugs or alcohol in the gunman’s system. (File) Washington: The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump mounted a “sustained, detailed effort” to attack a major gathering of some sort before deciding to target the Republican presidential candidate at a Pennsylvania rally in July, FBI officials said on Wednesday….
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