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At least 34 people also injured after bus plunged into ravine in Peru on Monday. (Representational) Lima: A bus plummeted from the edge of a narrow mountain road in southeastern Peru on Monday, killing 25 people including two children, according to authorities. The accident occurred before dawn when the bus traveling between two Andean towns…
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Netanyahu also praised Elon Musk for welcoming back tens of thousands of banned accounts to the platform. Washington: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged Elon Musk to fight anti-Semitism on his X platform as he sat down with the tech tycoon to discuss artificial intelligence. The conversation, which was broadcast on Musk’s X…
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File picture of Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva | Photo Credit: REUTERS Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, the office of the Brazilian presidency said on Monday. Lula has advocated the…
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Five Americans detained for years in Iran walked off a plane and into freedom Monday, many arm-in-arm, as part of a deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to unlock nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets. The deal brought Biden profuse thanks from their families but heat from Republican opponents for the monetary arrangement…
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Ovidio Guzman was briefly arrested in Culiacan in the northern state of Sinaloa in 2019. Chicago: Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of incarcerated Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, pleaded not guilty to U.S. fentanyl trafficking charges on Monday in federal court in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune, three days after his…
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Antony Blinken will meet Vice President Han Zheng on sidelines of UN General Assembly (File) Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Monday with China’s vice president, the latest top-level dialogue in days between the rival powers. The State Department said on its public schedule that Blinken will meet Vice President Han Zheng…
The UN warned on September 18 that disease outbreaks could bring “a second devastating crisis” to Libya a week after a huge flash flood shattered the coastal city of Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths. Local officials, aid agencies and the World Health Organization “are concerned about the risk of disease outbreak, particularly from contaminated…
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called President Xi Jinping a “dictator” Beijing: Beijing summoned the German ambassador to China after Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called President Xi Jinping a “dictator”, Berlin said Monday, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the countries. While they are major trade partners, Berlin-Beijing ties have been fraying as some…
Hunter Biden is the first child of a sitting US president to have been criminally indicted Washington: President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden sued the US Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging unlawful disclosure of his taxes by whistleblowers who work for the US tax agency. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the…
Joe Biden has imposed new sanctions on Iran’s intelligence ministry (File) Washington: The United States on Monday confirmed a prisoner swap with Iran and said that President Joe Biden had granted clemency to five Iranians jailed or awaiting trial for non-violent crimes. A US official said that seven US citizens were on a Qatari plane…
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