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U.S. President Joe Biden and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to India next week to participate in the G20 Summit and will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 on the sidelines of the historic meeting, the White House…
As People’s Liberation Army fighter jets from China sped toward Taiwan on Friday, life on the self-governing island carried on as normal. Andy Huang, a restaurateur in Taipei, said he has become desensitized to military threats from the mainland. “I’ve been hearing about China invading for 30 years,” he said. Taiwan’s government is racing to…
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Nine soldiers were killed earlier in a suicide attack by the outlawed TTP terror group in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Image for representation purpose only. File | Photo Credit: AP A Pakistan Army Major and a soldier were killed in a gunbattle with militants during an intelligence-based operation in the restive northwest tribal district bordering…
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People queue up to buy kerosene for domestic use at a supply station in Colombo on May 26, 2022. The South Asian nation’s 22 million people suffered massive shortages of essentials in 2022 after the government ran out of dollars to finance imports, including life-saving medicines. File | Photo Credit: AFP The crushing economic crisis…
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With Tharman Shanmugaratnam winning Singapore’s presidential election, he joins a long list of Indian-origin leaders who are dominating politics at important world capitals. Mr. Shanmugaratnam, 66, received 70.4 per cent of the votes in the presidential election held on Friday. “Singaporeans have chosen Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam to be our next president by a decisive margin,”…
Anwaar ul Haq Kakar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Pakistan Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar called the matter of inflated electricity bills, which have led to the countrywide protests, a “non-issue”, Dawn News reported on September 2. Mr. Kakar also said it was raised by some political parties and was a “tool in their…
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The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile blasts off during a test launch. The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) of Russia, commonly known as “Satan II” in Western media and once described as invincible by President Vladimir Putin, has been deployed for combat duty, the head of the state space agency Roscosmos said Friday. “The Sarmat…
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The officer standing in front of the hood of the car fires through the windshield. Ohio: The Ohio police have released new footage of the incident in which a 21-year-old pregnant woman, Ta’kiya Young, was fatally shot dead by a cop after she was accused of shoplifting at a grocery store in Columbus last week,…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes what it says the test-firing of strategic cruisemissiles. | file photo | Photo Credit: AP North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the sea Saturday, South Korea’s military said, extending its weapons testing activities in response to the United States-South Korea summer military drills. South Korea’s military detected the launches…
Mohamed Al-Fayed was born in Alexandria and was the son of a schoolteacher. Mohamed Al-Fayed was an outspoken and successful Egyptian business tycoon. His death comes almost 26 years to the day after the car crash in Paris that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997. Here are…
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