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Grim-faced volunteers piled corpses in blood-stained blankets into an ambulances. Gaza City: White body bags littered the floor and mourning filled the air after a school housing displaced Palestinians was struck with Israeli missiles Saturday — a horrific and increasingly common sight in the Gaza war. Dawn prayers were shattered by the early morning triple…
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Mr Alamgir said that the India-Bangladesh relationship would continue to be sound. A week of fast-paced developments in Bangladesh, which saw Sheikh Hasina’s ouster, widespread violence and the formation of an interim government, has been capped off with the country’s chief justice agreeing to step down on Saturday. While it is unclear when elections will…
“Susan always put others first, both in her values and in the day to day,” Sundar Pichai wrote San Francisco: Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who passed away after two years of living with lung cancer, once took him for an ice cream and a walk…
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Moscow on Saturday (August 10, 2024) mounted a “counter-terror operation” in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv’s advance deeper into Russia and warned that the fighting endangered a nuclear power plant. Ukrainian units stormed into Russia’s western Kursk region on Tuesday (August 6, 2024) morning in a shock attack, the largest and most…
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It advised the public to refrain from touching the balloons. Seoul: North Korea is launching more balloons believed to be carrying trash southward, South Korea’s military said Saturday, the latest in a series of border barrages that have ignited a tit-for-tat propaganda war. North Korea has sent thousands of trash-filled balloons southward since May, saying…
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In Tokyo, some residents were ramping up their disaster preparedness. Tokyo: Authorities in Japan urged people to avoid hoarding as anxiety over a possible megaquake triggered a spike Saturday in demand for disaster kits and daily necessities. In its first such advisory, the weather agency said a huge earthquake was more likely in the aftermath…
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Palestinians look at the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City on August 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters An independent, U.N.-appointed rights expert accused Israel of committing “genocide” in its Gaza war after an Israeli strike targeting a school on…
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Mr Thanedar underlined that Muhammad Yunus has called for an end to the violence. Washington: Two prominent Indian-American lawmakers have sought the US’ direct intervention to stop the “coordinated attacks” against minority Hindus in Bangladesh, underlining that instability in the region, “fuelled by religious intolerance and violence”, is not in the interest of America or…
Aerial view of the site where a Voepass airline plane crashed, in Vinhedo, Brazil, on August 9, 2024. A plane with 62 people on board crashed on 09 August in a residential area of the Brazilian municipality of Vinhedo, in the state of Sao Paulo, leaving no survivors. | Photo Credit: PTI A passenger plane crashed…
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Avdevich launched barista training for people in wheelchairs, as he settled in Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland: With its sleek interior and freshly ground coffee, the cafe run by Belarusian exile Sasha Avdevich may at first glance seem like yet another trendy spot in Warsaw. But the lowered, wheelchair-accessible countertop and a sticker reading: “The barista on…
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