NEW DELHI: Indian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill to end the Muslim practice of instant divorce two years after the Supreme Court ruled that it violated the constitutional rights of Muslim women. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the bill’s approval by the upper house of Parliament reflects the empowerment of women and India’s […]
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US President Donald Trump ripped into China on Tuesday after US negotiators arrived in Shanghai to resurrect talks aimed at ending a year-long trade war between the world’s two top economies. Trump took to Twitter to slam China hours after top US officials landed in the financial hub for the first face-to-face discussions since the US leader […]
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More Afghan civilians were killed by Afghan and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) forces than by the Taliban and other militants in the first half of 2019, the UN mission said in a report released on Tuesday. Most of the civilian casualties were apparently inflicted during Afghan and Nato operations against insurgents, such as airstrikes and night […]
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Indian police on Tuesday launched a major hunt for one of the country’s richest men, coffee tycoon V.G. Siddhartha, amid mounting fears for his safety. The billionaire owner of the Cafe Coffee Day chain that beat Starbucks at its own game in India was last seen on Monday night walking across a bridge in the […]
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The British pound tumbled on Tuesday as investors bet Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit brinkmanship with the European Union could trigger a messy divorce that would sow chaos through the world economy and financial markets. Sterling crashed through trading barriers, falling to an intraday low of $1.2120 in shallower overnight Asian trade, the lowest since […]
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RIO DE JANEIRO: At least 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the second major eruption of violence to rock the country’s severely overpopulated and deadly prison system in as many months. […]
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Capital One Financial Corp on Monday said that personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker who has been arrested. The US credit card issuer said it identified the hack on July 19 […]
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The United States Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of President Donald Trump, allowing him to proceed with plans to divert billions of dollars in Pentagon funds towards the construction of a border wall with Mexico. “Wow! Big victory on the wall,” Trump tweeted in reaction to the ruling, which boosts his ability to […]
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Regime air strikes on Saturday killed 12 civilians in northwest Syria, where ramped up attacks by Damascus and its ally Russia have claimed the lives of hundreds since late April. Idlib and parts of the neighbouring provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia are under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a militant group led by […]
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US President Donald Trump said on Friday he had spoken by phone with new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and that discussions on a “very substantial” trade deal were already underway. “I predict he’ll be a great prime minister,” Trump said, calling Johnson a “good guy” minutes after ending the conversation. “We’re working on a […]
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