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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may hold a bilateral meeting with PM Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 summit. File | Photo Credit: KRISHNAN VV The first fortnight of September is appearing hectic in Dhaka’s diplomatic calendar with multiple high-profile visits and agreements that are being scheduled. The series is expected to start…
Two female Iranian journalists will spend around a month behind bars as part of a three-year partly suspended prison sentence for “conspiracy” and “collusion”, local media reported on Sunday. Under the sentence, Negin Bagheri and Elnaz Mohammadi will serve one-fortieth of the term, or less than a month, in prison, their lawyer Amir Raisian told…
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Sudanese wait outside a Passports and Immigration Services office in Port Sudan on September 3, 2023, following an announcement by the authorities of the resumption of issuing travel documents in war-torn Sudan. | Photo Credit: AFP Five civilians were killed by bombs that “fell on their homes” in Khartoum, a Sudanese medical source told AFP,…
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Protesters hold sticks and flags near members of Israeli security forces during violent demonstrations by Eritrean asylum seekers, including both supporters and opponents of the Eritrean government, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash…
The squirrel interrupted the second set of a match. A US Open doubles match had to be brought to a standstill when an eager squirrel invaded the court. The hilarious moment happened during a second-round women’s doubles match on Saturday night on Court 5, Greet Minnen and Yanina Wickmayer squared off against Laura Siegemund and…
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Reports said the victim was a man in his 30s. (File) Paris: A pedestrian was killed in Paris early Sunday after being struck by a driver who was fleeing the police after refusing to submit to a traffic stop, police sources said. “The wanted man was identified and arrested,” an anonymous police source told AFP…
Ukrainian prosecutors said some of the drones hit Danube area and at least two people were injured (File) Kyiv: Ukraine said Sunday that it had destroyed 22 Russian drones on the southern Odesa region, as Moscow said it hit the Danube port of Reni, on the border with NATO member Romania. Russia has been targeting…
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Pope Francis told Catholics in China to be “good Christians and good citizens”. Ulaanbaatar: Pope Francis on Sunday told Catholics in China to be “good Christians and good citizens”, using his visit to Mongolia to help ease tensions between the Vatican and Beijing. Following a mass before the scant Catholic population in Mongolia’s capital of…
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Across the island, more than 21,000 hosueholds lost power. Taitung, Taiwan: Typhoon Haikui made landfall on eastern Taiwan Sunday, unleashing torrential downpours, whipping winds and plunging thousands of households into darkness as the first major storm to directly hit the island in four years. Nearly 4,000 people were evacuated from high-risk areas, hundreds of flights…
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The police then arrested Ms Qiu outside her house. A woman in Fujian province in southern China was arrested after she bit and chewed an anti-theft cable at an Apple store to steal an iPhone 14 Plus priced at $960 (Rs 79,414), as per a report in South China Morning Post. The woman surnamed Qiu,…
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