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“There is little to look forward to in Sri Lanka,” says Kathir*, who will board a plane to Dubai later this month for an electrical maintenance job, leaving behind his parents, wife and two children. “There’s no other option,” says the 35-year-old, who paid 4,00,000 SLR (roughly ₹1,11,500) to an agent to get on a…
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US Election: Kamala Harris now has the support of over 200 former Republican presidential staffers. Washington: Donald Trump has faced a jolt from within the Republican party. More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for former US President George W Bush have written an open letter endorsing Kamala Harris for the top post instead of…
Illustration by Antony Premkumar J The Interim Government of Bangladesh led by Prof. Mohammad Yunus on Wednesday (August 28, 2024) ended the ban on Jamaat-E-Islami Bangladesh, its students wing Islami Chhattra Shibir and “all other associated organisations” of JeI Bangladesh. On August 1, the then Prime Minister Sheik Hasina banned the JEI and all its…
Binance has faced legal action for not cracking down on illicit transactions or users [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Binance has only blocked a few Palestinian users’ accounts over links to illicit funds and has not seized the assets of all Palestinians, clarified Binance co-founder & chief customer service officer Yi He, in response to…
President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan. File | Photo Credit: Kamal Narang Watching a hungry lion pace in a small cage, Tanzania’s president jokingly suggested naming the “mischievous” beast after one of the East African country’s leading opposition politicians. President Samia Suluhu Hassan was visiting an annual fair in her hometown archipelago of Zanzibar on Saturday when she…
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a campaign rally on August 23, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona, U.S.A. | Photo Credit: AP Donald Trump has added former White House hopefuls Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to his transition team if he…
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The last reported human EEEV infection in New Hampshire was in 2014. (Representational Image) Washington: A person in the northeastern US state of New Hampshire has died after contracting the very rare mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, health authorities have announced. The patient, identified only as an adult from the town of Hampstead, was…
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A boy pushes a bicycle loaded with aid boxes provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) past a collapsed building, with a concrete block bearing graffiti reading in Arabic “to passersby over our dreams, this is Gaza”, along a street in central Gaza City on August 27, 2024 amid…
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The incident occurred on August 26, 2022, during a nighttime flight A New Jersey woman has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that the carrier failed to prevent or stop a sexual assault she experienced at the hands of a stranger seated next to her on a flight. According to the Independent, the incident…
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Imagine a group of young men gathered at a picturesque college campus in New England, in the United States, during the northern summer of 1956. It’s a small casual gathering. But the men are not here for campfires and nature hikes in the surrounding mountains and woods. Instead, these pioneers are about to embark on…
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