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India Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday formally submitted his candidacy to recontest the parliamentary seat for the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in a general election he is widely expected to win.The marathon six-week poll concludes next month, and the 73-year-old premier used the election for...
Twelve people were killed and at least 60 injured after a billboard collapsed during a fierce storm in India's financial capital Mumbai, officials said Monday.An excavator was digging through the wreckage as rescuers raced to find any survivors after the signage collapsed at a petrol station in ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China this week on the invitation of leader Xi Jinping, Beijing's foreign ministry said Tuesday.Putin will be in Beijing from Thursday to Friday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, in the Russian leader's second trip to China in just o...
Three people were killed when paramilitary troops clashed with protesters in Pakistan's Kashmir region on Monday, an official said, on the fourth day of demonstrations over rising costs.Thousands of people have rallied since Friday, with more than 10,000 turning out on Monday despite government ...
Iran condemned as "interfering" Tuesday a French foreign ministry statement accusing it of "state hostage-taking" and "blackmail" in the detention of four French nationals."We strongly condemn such unprofessional, interfering and inappropriate positions while resor...
Russia's incoming defence minister on Tuesday said that Moscow's priority was to secure victory on the battlefield against Ukraine while minimising human losses.President Vladimir Putin on Sunday nominated economist Andrei Belousov to replace Sergei Shoigu as Moscow's defence chief, a su...
The top UN court said it would hold hearings Thursday and Friday over South Africa's request to impose emergency orders on Israel to halt its Rafah offensive.The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will hear lawyers from South Africa on Thursday, followed by Israel's response t...
American military aid for Ukraine is "on its way", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Kyiv on Tuesday, as Russia pressed on with a new offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region.Blinken's trip comes just weeks after the US Congress finally approved a $61 billion financial a...
Sports,Football
Kylian Mbappe was named France's player of the year on Monday at an awards ceremony in Paris, as he comes to the end of his seven-season stay with Paris Saint-Germain.Mbappe, 25, picked up the prize for the best player in Ligue 1 at the UNFP (French players' union) Trophies gala for the fift...
Business & Commerce
India and Iran on Monday signed a 10-year contract to develop and equip the strategic Chabahar port in Iran as India seeks to grow trade in west and central Asia.The agreement will give India 10-year access to use the port, located close to Iran's southeastern border with Pakistan, according to ...
Dubai's Emirates Group announced on Monday annual profits of $5.1 billion, a 71-percent rise, setting a new record for the second year in a row."The Emirates Group has once again raised the bar to deliver a new record performance," said chairman and chief executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Sae...
Israel battled Hamas in Gaza on Monday, including in far-southern Rafah, despite US warnings against a full-scale invasion of the crowded city and of the threat of post-war “anarchy” across the Palestinian territory.Clashes also raged in northern and central areas of the besieged Gaza St...
Eight people died in a weekend shooting in Mexico’s Morelos state, adjacent to Mexico City, authorities reported Sunday.The attack occurred Saturday in the municipality of Huitzilac, off a highway connecting the capital with the tourist town of Cuernavaca.Four people died on the scene while fo...
Kylian Mbappe scored on his final home appearance as a Paris Saint-Germain player on Sunday but the French champions suffered a surprise 3-1 defeat against Toulouse on the night they picked up the Ligue 1 championship trophy.Mbappe confirmed in a video posted on social media on Friday that he would ...
China is targeting citizens studying abroad for their political activism, rights group Amnesty International said Monday, with some students reporting harassment of family members back home.China does not tolerate political dissent and has used sophisticated tech tools as well as intimidation t...
Thousands of people fled their homes Sunday in western Canada as hundreds of wildfires beginning earlier than usual portend a difficult fire season.The small town of Fort Nelson in the province of British Columbia was among the areas threatened by flames."Fires are really all around us from the...
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be received Monday in Ankara by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the latest sign of warming relations between the NATO neighbours.After decades of tensions, occasionally broken by brief periods of reconciliation, the day-long visit follo...
US President Joe Biden said Saturday that a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was possible as soon as "tomorrow" if the militant group released its hostages."There would be a ceasefire tomorrow if Hamas would release the hostages," Biden said at a fundraiser outside Seattle, at t...
Israel launched strikes on Gaza Sunday after it expanded an evacuation order for Rafah, with the United Nations warning an outright invasion of the crowded southern city risked an "epic" disaster.Gaza's civil defence agency said two doctors were killed Sunday in the central town of Dei...
At least 34 people have died and 16 more were missing after flash floods and cold lava flow from a volcano hit western Indonesia, a local disaster official said Sunday.The disaster hit two districts in West Sumatra province on Saturday evening after hours of heavy rain caused flooding and sent sweep...
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