JOHANNESBURG: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg and highlighted concerns India has about border issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India’s foreign secretary said. Modi and Xi agreed “to direct their relevant officials to intensify efforts at expeditious disengagement […]
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Ukraine has claimed its troops briefly landed overnight in the occupied Crimea peninsula, as the country marks 32 years of its independence. All objectives of the “special operation” were achieved without any casualties, the defence ministry said. It added that during a firefight in Olenivka and Mayak, western Crimea, “the enemy suffered losses”. Russia illegally […]
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ATHENS: Greece’s Supreme Court has ordered an urgent investigation into racist attacks that followed the outbreak of ferocious wildfires in the country’s northeast. The court order came after search teams found the bodies of 18 migrants who had been burned beyond recognition in a wooded area that had gone up in flames in Alexandroupolis, bordering […]
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The world’s biggest digital companies will have nowhere to hide starting on Aug. 25, when the toughest EU rules on online content since social media first burst onto the scene enter into force. The landmark law is part of the European Union’s legal arsenal deployed to bring tech companies to heel and enforce order in […]
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BEIJING: China on Thursday vowed “powerful” measures against the US over a recent sale of defence systems to Taiwan. The US State Department has approved a possible $500 million sale to the island of Taiwan of IRST systems for F-16 fighter jets, as well as other equipment, Reuters quoted the Pentagon as saying on Wednesday. […]
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The promotion has been criticised for using young people’s bodies to advertise political policies. Austria is offering free public transport for a year to people willing to get a tattoo reading ‘Klimaticket’ – the name of the country-wide public transport scheme. Leonore Gewesseler, Green MP and Austria’s climate minister, was seen promoting the deal at […]
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Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday inaugurated the International Buyer-Seller meet at the University of Kashmir. In a rapidly globalizing world, initiatives like the International Buyer-Seller meet not only create opportunities for the artisans to showcase their skills on a global stage but also open doors for economic growth. As many as 24 International and […]
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MUZAFFARABAD: A large gathering of people from different walks of life torched thousands of electricity bills in Rawalakot, the divisional headquarters of Poonch, on Tuesday at the climax of a sit-in that had started more than 105 days ago in the town to record protest against the “cruel electricity taxes, unavailability and increase in the […]
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Iran sentenced seven men and a woman to prison after their convictions over allegedly aiding two men who were earlier executed for killing a paramilitary volunteer during the nationwide protests last year that followed Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, state media reported Wednesday. The sentences come just ahead of the one-year […]
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Hungary has released more than 1,400 foreigners convicted of people smuggling, a move challenged by the European Commission. “We have released 1,468 detainees of foreign nationality who have been convicted of smuggling of human beings,” the National Command of Penitentiary Services told the Agence France-Presse news agency in an email. In April, Budapest announced that […]
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