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The Israel-Hamas war started on October 7. Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday rolled out a temporary feature to limit “harmful and potentially harmful” content on the Israel-Hamas war. The change is part of the company’s efforts to protect people “in the region” from such “unwanted” comments, Meta said in an updated statement on Wednesday (October…
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Nokia said mobile networks net sales declined 19% (Representational) New Delhi: Nokia has announced to reduce its workforce by up to 14,000 jobs due to a 19% decline in third-quarter sales. The programme is projected to result in an organisation with 72,000 to 77,000 employees, as opposed to the current workforce of 86,000 at Nokia,…
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Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Czech coalition government survived a Parliamentary no-confidence vote on October 19 over Opposition claims that it is mishandling the economy and immigration. Only 85 Opposition lawmakers in the 200-seat Lower House of Parliament voted to dismiss the five-party government led by conservative Prime Minister…
Palestinians check the place of the explosion at al-Ahli hospital, in Gaza City, on October 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP As many as 30 Muslim bodies under the banner of Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, on October 18, condemned the bombing of a hospital in Palestine’s Gaza “in an Israeli air strike”. The…
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A special plane has taken off from an airport near Moscow (File) Moscow: Russia on Thursday sent 27 tonnes of humanitarian aid for civilians in the Gaza Strip to be transported from Egypt, Moscow’s emergency situations ministry said. “A special plane has taken off from the airport at Ramenskoye near Moscow for El-Arish in Egypt….
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Joe Biden met and hugged Rachel Edri who was held hostage by Hamas fighters for 20 hours Tel Aviv: When Hamas operatives toting grenades appeared in her living room, the 65-year-old Israeli woman Rachel Edri served them coffee and Moroccan cookies to trick them until police came in and killed them. Rachel Edri was rescued…
Venezuelan migrants board a repatriation flight as a part of an immigration enforcement process, at the Valley International Airport, in Harlingen, Texas, U.S. October 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Deportation flights of Venezuelans from the U.S. resumed Wednesday with a first plane of more than a hundred migrants landing back in their economically troubled…
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President Joe Biden swept into wartime Israel for a 7 1/2-hour visit Wednesday that produced a heaping dose of vocal support, a deal to get limited humanitarian aid into Gaza from Egypt, likely by the end of the week, and a plea for Israelis not to allow rage over the deadly Hamas attack to consume…
Ravinder Bhalla said he received a series of letters in the mail (File) New Delhi: Ravinder S Bhalla, the first Sikh mayor in the US, has alleged that he has received a series of letters threatening to kill him and his family. Speaking to CBS News on Wednesday, he said the letters, which he received…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a press conference following the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, October 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: via Reuters A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in an apartment building in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new…
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