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Social Media Platform X Down For Thousands Of Users: Report

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Social Media Platform X Down For Thousands Of Users: Report

The platform was impacted by an outage earlier in April. San Francisco: Social media platform X suffered outages on Thursday afternoon, according to outage tracking site Downdetector.com. The website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, showed more than 37,000 reports of outages in the U.S. as of 3:54 pm…

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Reality TV Show To Send Indian To Space With Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin

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Reality TV Show To Send Indian To Space With Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin

The show’s winner will get the chance to travel into space. (Representational) New Delhi: TV show producer Banijay Asia has tied up with Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) for a reality show to send an Indian into space on a future Blue Origin New Shepard mission. Recently, SERA announced India as a partner nation…

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India Aims To Train 175 Civil Servants From Maldives This Year

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India Aims To Train 175 Civil Servants From Maldives This Year

India and Maldives signed an MoU for India imparting training to civil servants of Maldives for 2024-2029 New Delhi: India has targeted to train 175 civil servants from Maldives through tailor-made programmes in specific disciplines, according to an official statement issued today. A bilateral meeting was held today between National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG)…

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Israel, Hamas Agree To Zoned 3-Day Pauses For Gaza Polio Vaccinations: WHO

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Israel, Hamas Agree To Zoned 3-Day Pauses For Gaza Polio Vaccinations: WHO

Gaza: The Israeli military and Palestinian militant group Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio, a senior WHO official said on Thursday. The vaccination campaign is due to start on Sunday, said Rik Peeperkorn, the World…

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Russia claims two more villages in Donetsk and Lugansk regions

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Russia claims two more villages in Donetsk and Lugansk regions

View of damage in the aftermath of an airstrike in a location given as Kupyansk, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Region on August 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia said on Thursday (August 29, 2024) that it took two more east Ukrainian villages — in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions — as its forces continue their…

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Macron hosts Starmer as U.K. seeks to reset Europe ties

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Macron hosts Starmer as U.K. seeks to reset Europe ties

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, receives Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer before their meeting on August 29, 2024 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. | Photo Credit: AP U.K. premier Keir Starmer was welcomed warmly on Thursday (August 29, 2024) in Paris by French leader Emmanuel Macron, as the new centre-left British government seeks to…

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Death toll rises as Israeli West Bank raids enter second day

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Death toll rises as Israeli West Bank raids enter second day

Journalists gather on a destroyed road as they cover the second day of a large-scale military operation on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on August 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The death toll climbed on Thursday (Ausgut 29, 2024) as Israel pressed a large-scale military operation in…

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Hong Kong media outlet, editors ‘guilty of sedition’

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Hong Kong media outlet, editors ‘guilty of sedition’

Chung Pui-kuen, the former chief editor of Hong Kong’s now-shuttered outlet Stand News, walks outside on bail after he was found guilty in a landmark sedition trial under a colonial-era law, in Wanchai District Court in Hong Kong on August 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Hong Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its two former…

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Germany To Limit Support For Illegal Migrants After Deadly Knife Attack: Minister

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Germany To Limit Support For Illegal Migrants After Deadly Knife Attack: Minister

Carrying knives at festivals will be banned, German Interior Minister said. (File) Berlin: German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday the government would toughen knife controls and limit the support given to some illegal migrants following a suspected Islamist stabbing. Three people were killed and eight others injured at a festival in the western city…

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