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New Orleans: A US citizen drove a white Ford pickup truck flying an Islamic State flag into throngs of people celebrating the New Year in the French Quarter, the Louisiana city’s most iconic tourist district, around 3:15 am (0915 GMT), according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He crashed the vehicle, then opened fire and…
Investigators in New Orleans on Wednesday found two homemade bombs in the wake of a deadly truck attack. New Orleans: Investigators in New Orleans on Wednesday found two homemade bombs in the wake of a deadly truck attack in the city’s French Quarter, and those devices have been “rendered safe,” an FBI official said. “As…
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Washington DC: US President-elect Donald Trump appeared to side with ally and tech billionaire Elon Musk over the ongoing H-1B row and said America needs “smart people” coming into our country. Mr Musk sparked political turmoil in the Republican camp recently after he vowed to “go to war” to defend the H-1B visa programme. “I…
Washington: The US Treasury Department said Monday that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach resulting in access to some of its workstations, according to a letter to Congress seen by AFP. The incident happened earlier this month, when the actor compromised a third-party cybersecurity service provider and was able to remotely access…
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Washington, United States: The number of people in the United States experiencing homelessness reached a new record this year, with lingering inflation and high housing prices among likely drivers, a government report said Friday. An estimated 771,480 people were homeless on a single night in January 2024, rising 18 percent from 2023, said the Department…
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“He is in good spirits and grateful for the care he is receiving,” the hospital said. Washington: Former Democratic U.S. President Bill Clinton, 78, was hospitalized on Monday with a fever, according to his deputy chief of staff. It is not an emergency situation, NBC News reported. “President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical…
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Washington: The U.S., UK and EU criticized Pakistan’s military courts on Monday over the sentencing of 25 civilians in connection with attacks on military facilities in 2023 after the arrest of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The civilians were sentenced by a Pakistani military court to periods of two to 10 years in a…
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Washington: The US House of Representatives voted Friday to avert a government shutdown with just hours to spare, with Democrats joining Republicans to advance a funding bill keeping the lights on through mid-March. Lawmakers sent a package to the Senate that would keep federal agencies running through mid-March — but the upper chamber only has…
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India has been accorded the status of Major Defence Partnership by the United States. Washington: The defence relationship between India and the United States is accelerating and advancing in terrific and exciting ways, the Pentagon has said amidst the transition from the Joe Biden administration to that of President-elect Donald Trump. “The US-India defence relationship…
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Washington: The US House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected a Republican-led funding bill aimed at averting a government shutdown, with federal agencies due to run out of cash on Friday night and cease operations starting this weekend. The contentious legislation would have suspended the country’s borrowing limit for President-elect Donald Trump’s first two years…
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