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A powerful earthquake hits off southern Japan; tsunami advisory issued

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People take shelter outside building following an earthquake in Miyazaki, western Japan on August 8, 2024. Photo: Kyodo News via AP A powerful earthquake struck off Japan’s southern coast on August 8, triggering a tsunami advisory. Residents were urged to stay away from the coastline, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious…

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Austrian Police Disrupts Taylor Swift Concert Attack Plot, Seizes Chemicals

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Swift’s Vienna concerts were cancelled after the government flagged a planned attack. (Representational) Vienna: A 19-year-old Austrian terrorism suspect had taken concrete steps in planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert, with chemical substances found during a search of his residence, Austria’s general director for public security said. The teenager, with North Macedonian roots,…

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Khaleda Zia: The Begum who came in from the cold

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The story so far: On August 6, a day after Sheikh Hasina resigned as Prime Minister and left Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, the ailing ex-Prime Minister of the South Asian country of 170 million was released on President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s orders. The 79-year-old chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been under house arrest since…

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Bangladeshis spend sleepless night amid fears of robbery and looting

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Bangladeshi Army officers stand guard at the Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Several residents across Bangladesh spent a sleepless night as they gathered in groups to guard the streets amid fears of robbery and looting by criminals in the violence-hit country, where an interim government headed by…

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Dell To Layoff Workers In Sales Team Reorganization With New AI-Focused Unit

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Dell Technologies headquarters in Round Rock, Texas. (file photo) Dell Technologies Inc. is cutting jobs as part of a reorganization of its sales teams that includes a new group focused on artificial intelligence products and services. “We are getting leaner,” sales executives Bill Scannell and John Byrne wrote Monday in a memo to Dell employees….

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Sheikh Hasina’s daughter Saima Wazed: ‘Heartbroken’ that I cannot see, hug my mother during this difficult time

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with daughter Saima Wazed Hossain sister Sheikh Rehana | Photo Credit: AFP Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s daughter Saima Wazed on Thursday (August 8) said she was “heartbroken” by the loss of lives in her country and that she could not “see or hug” her mother during such a…

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China to issue 70 national standards for carbon footprint, carbon capture in 2024

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The country aims to build 100 carbon emission management standardisation pilots in 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters China will issue 70 national standards for carbon footprints, energy efficiency and consumption as well as carbon capture, utilisation and storage in 2024, in another step to reach peak carbon emissions. The country aims to build 100 carbon…

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Where Will Sheikh Hasina Go? Bangladesh Ex-PM’s Options After Dhaka Exit

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Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign as Bangladesh PM amid violent protests demanding her exit Two days back, Sheikh Hasina resigned as Bangladesh Prime Minister, fled capital Dhaka amid violent protests demanding her ouster and landed near Delhi. Since then, there has been speculation on where she is headed next. Right after her escape from…

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India-Bangladesh trade resumes from West Bengal’s Petrapole land port amid tight security

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A view of the border post, in Petrapole, India. File | Photo Credit: AP “Trade between India and Bangladesh through Petrapole land port in West Bengal, resumed on Thursday morning (August 8, 2024) amid tight security,” officials said. Also Read: Bangladesh crisis LIVE updates The two South Asian neighbours’ trade came to a halt on…

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Panama arrests 15 people for smuggling Chinese migrants through the Darien Gap

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Representational image. Migrants usually cross through Darien Gap from Colombia to head towards U.S. | Photo Credit: AP Border police in Panama said Wednesday(August 7,2024) that they have arrested 15 people who allegedly ran a smuggling ring to move Chinese migrants through the Darien Gap. The dangerous, jungle-clad gap connects Colombia and Panama, and represents…

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