Two regional parties that were former bitter rivals announced an unlikely alliance Saturday to fight Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party in a looming general election. The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) — key players in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh — said they would set aside […]
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United States President Donald Trump warned of murderers and gangsters spreading across the country during a visit to the US-Mexican border Thursday to push his demand for a multi-billion dollar wall. Trump used the backdrop of the Rio Grande border river at McAllen, Texas, to ramp up what has already turned into a hugely messy […]
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Tokyo prosecutors on Friday filed two new charges of financial misconduct against former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, meaning the auto tycoon is unlikely to be leaving his jail cell soon. Lawyers for the former jet-setting executive immediately said they would file a bail application, but have acknowledged that he will probably be detained until a […]
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Participants at a medical congress in India have set a new Guinness World Record for the longest line of sanitary pads, in a move aimed at promoting menstrual hygiene. Five hundred people at the 62nd All India Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (AICOG) took seven and a half hours to lay out 10,105 sanitary pads […]
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The world’s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said. The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports that suggested a so-called pause in global warming in […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREIndia will send its first manned mission into space by December 2021, the head of the country’s space agency said on Friday. The three-person mission would make the Asian giant the fourth country after Russia, the United States and China to put people in space. “We are planning to have the first unmanned mission by […]
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The US-led military coalition in Syria has begun pulling out troops, a spokesman said on Friday without elaborating on locations or timetables. “Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) has begun the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria,” spokesman Colonel Sean Ryan told AFP in a statement, referring to the US-led anti-militancy force. “Out of concern […]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was on Thursday named the provisional winner of a long-awaited presidential poll paving the way for the crisis-hit country’s first transfer of power in 18 years. Repeated delays in holding the election sparked deadly violence in the vast and poor nation, but Tshisekedi struck a conciliatory tone […]
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Malala Yousafzai’s biopic Gul Makai is getting a special screening organised by the United Nations. According to Mumbai Mirror, the screening, which will take place in London on January 25, will see 450 dignitaries from around the world in attendance including Members of the Pakistani, Indian and British High Commission as well as members of the UN and […]
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Iran’s president on Thursday said the Islamic Republic soon will send two new satellites into orbit using Iran-made rockets, despite United States concern the launch could help further develop its ballistic missiles. President Hassan Rouhani’s comments, during a commemoration for the late President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, confirmed the rocket launches would take place. Iran typically […]
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