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Washington: TikTok faces an imminent shutdown in the United States after Congress passed a law last year forcing its Chinses owner ByteDance to either sell the platform or close it by this Sunday. The US Supreme Court is expected to rule this week on TikTok’s challenge to the law. Following a hearing last Friday, expectations…
Washington: The Republican-led US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill severely restricting transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. The legislation would bar transgender students from female teams at any school or university that receives federal funding, although its adoption by the Senate and passage into law is unlikely. The bill…
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Washington: Joe Biden said Monday that America was stronger on the global stage than it had been for decades, in a swansong foreign policy speech one week before Donald Trump’s White House comeback. The outgoing US president took aim at Russia, China and Iran, and urged the West to maintain support for Ukraine in an…
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Washington: Granting Donald Trump’s demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would “lead to chaos,” the head of the authority running the waterway said Wednesday. “Rules are rules and there are no exceptions,” Panama Canal Authority leader Ricuarte Vasquez Morales told the Wall Street Journal. “We cannot discriminate for…
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Finally, Justin Trudeau decided that he will have to quit to save himself any further ignominy. His politics and his career have been adrift for a while now with no seeming way out of the morass he was sinking into with each passing day. It must have seemed to him that he was being abandoned…
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Washington DC: After teasing the “dawn of America’s golden age”, the US President-elect has shared a new map of the United States, which incorporated Canada as its territory. This comes hours after Mr Trump threatened to use “economic force” to absorb Canada into the United States. Taking to his social media platform Truth Social, the…
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Washington: Donald Trump on Tuesday pushed NATO members to boost their defense spending to five percent of GDP, underlining his long-standing claims that they are underpaying for US protection. “They can all afford it, but they should be at five percent not two percent,” the incoming US president told reporters. “Europe is in for a…
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New Delhi: US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said that his visit to India is likely the last trip overseas that he will lead as NSA and he cannot think of a better way to end his tenure in the White House. Speaking at IIT Delhi during the session, ‘The United States and India:…
US said Islamic State is hoping to stage a comeback in Syria following fall of Assad regime. Washington: The U.S. military said on Monday operations against Islamic State in Iraq over the past week led to the death of a non-U.S. coalition soldier and wounded two other non-U.S. personnel. It also detailed operations in Syria…
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Washington: In a momentous occasion for Indian Americans, six of their leaders on Friday were sworn-in as the members of the US House of Representatives, the largest so far for this minority ethnic community in the United States. “When I was first sworn in twelve years ago, I was the sole Indian American Member of…
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