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Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed that it will attend the international counter-terrorism exercises in India later this year despite simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The counter-terrorism exercises are…
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Budapest: Thousands of Hungarians rallied in Budapest after the government suspended nature conservation rules, particularly those for protecting forests. On August 4, the government decided to suspend the rules in order to speed up…
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Ottawa: The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) confirmed 1,059 cases of monkeypox in the country. The health agency on Friday said that of the confirmed cases, 511 cases are from Ontario, 426 from Quebec, 98 from British Columbia, 19…
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London: More than 21,000 people, including British nationals and their families, have been safely brought to the UK from Afghanistan, the government has said. The group of people also comprise Afghans who worked for Britain and people…
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New York: Controversial author Salman Rushdie, whose 'The Satanic Verses' led to death threats against him for blasphemy, was attacked while participating in an event in New York state, media reports said. His condition was not known.…
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Washington: FBI agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons, among others, in the unprecedented search they conducted of the premises of former US President Donald Trump earlier this week in Florida, according to a…
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London: Johnson & Johnson is to stop selling and making talc-based baby powder globally, two years after it ended sales in the US and Canada, the media reported. The healthcare firm has faced tens of thousands of lawsuits from…
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Geneva: More than 140 aid workers were killed over the course of 2021, the Geneva-based UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday. The figure for aid workers killed in conflict or as a result of…
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Washington: Initial jobless claims in the US last week rose to 262,000, hitting a new high since November 2021, the US Labour Department reported. In the week ending August 6, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits…
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United Nations: India has expressed concern over the shelling near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, the biggest in Europe and among the world's largest, as Moscow and Kiev traded charges over the incidents and the international atomic…
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