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Calin Georgescu, running as an independent candidate for President, speaks to media after registering his bid in the country’s presidential elections, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A little-known, far-right populist took the lead in Romania’s presidential election on Sunday (November 25, 2024), electoral data showed, and will likely face…
Yamandu Orsi, candidate for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) and running mate Carolina Cosse celebrate after polls closed in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Left-wing politician Yamandu Orsi was elected president of Uruguay, official results showed on Sunday (November 24, 2024), in a rebuke by…
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Supporters of the former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) sit atop a vehicle as they head towards Islamabad, during an anti-government rally, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on November 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s imprisoned former premier Imran Khan have defied a lockdown and widespread arrests to head to the capital…
The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) Team at Capitol Hill during the National Hindu Advocacy Day, in USA. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI Indian Americans in Silicon Valley held a solidarity rally for Hindus in Canada and Bangladesh over violence against them in these two countries. Addressing a gathering of scores of…
Montevideo: Uruguay’s new president-elect Yamandu Orsi, whose political ambitions were galvanized by his experience growing up in a dictatorship, was the pollsters’ narrow favorite to win the second round of the South American nation’s presidential election on Sunday for the center-left. The 57-year-old former history teacher and local mayor managed to unseat the ruling conservative…
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Traditional clay pottery is seeing a resurgence in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians are forced to find solutions for a shortage of plates and other crockery to eat from in the territory ravaged by more than a year of war. “There is an unprecedented demand for plates as no supplies enter the Gaza Strip,” 26-year-old…
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All 89 passengers and six crew were safely evacuated. Istanbul: The engine of a Russian-made passenger plane caught fire after landing at southern Turkey’s Antalya Airport on Sunday, the Turkish transport ministry said in a statement. The ministry said landings at the airport were suspended until 0300 local time (0000 GMT) while authorities towed the…
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Social media users have been left shellshocked by a ‘dystopian’ employee “productivity monitoring” AI software that aims to scrutinise every move of the workers whilst suggesting ways they can be replaced by automation. A Reddit user claimed that during a sales pitch for such a tool, they were made aware of the software suite that…
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A man in the Canadian city of Toronto has gone viral after he spent months creating a video of his running routes by turning it into a flip animation that appears like a dancing stick man. Using the route-tracking app Strava, Duncan McCabe (32), an accountant by profession, blended his passion for running and editing…
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A reporter films parts of a missile that were collected for examination from the impact site in the town of Dnipro following an attack, on November 24, 2024 at a forensic expert center in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. | Photo Credit: AFP Ukraine on Sunday (November 24, 2024) showed journalists fragments of the Russian…
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