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Salman Rushdie off ventilator and talking following stabbing in US
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Salman Rushdie off ventilator and talking following stabbing in US

London, Aug 14: Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off his ventilator and is talking as he recovers from being stabbed in the US. British-American writer Aatish Taseer said, in a since-deleted tweet, that the 75-year-old was "off the ventilator and talking (and joking)", which was then...
Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet
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Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet

Tehran, Aug 13: Iranians reacted with praise and worry on Saturday over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death. It remains unclear why Rushdie's attacker, identified by police as Hadi...
Salman Rushdie put on ventilator, says agent
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Salman Rushdie put on ventilator, says agent

New York, Aug 13: Author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed at a literary event in New York state, is currently on a ventilator and unable to speak, according to his agent. In a statement late Friday night, Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie said: "The news is not good... Salman will likely lose one eye;...
Salman Rushdie stabbed onstage at NY event, flown to hospital
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Salman Rushdie stabbed onstage at NY event, flown to hospital

New York, Aug 12: Controversial author Salman Rushdie, whose fourth book 'The Satanic Verses' brought him to notoriety in 1988 and led to death threats against him for blasphemy, was stabbed while participating in an event in New York state, media reports said.He was flown to a hospital after...
India expresses concern over shelling near Ukraine nuclear plant
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India expresses concern over shelling near Ukraine nuclear plant

United Nations, Aug 12: 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 agency head warned of "serious consequences". ...
Torrential rain leads to rise in social disparity in South Korea
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Torrential rain leads to rise in social disparity in South Korea

Guwahati, Aug 11: Floods caused by torrential rain led to a rise in social disparity in the wealthier parts of the capital city of Seoul in South Korea. At least 10 people have been killed so far due to the incessant rain which has swept across the northern part of the country since Monday. The...
Heatwave in Britain leads to boom in demand for ice cream makers
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Heatwave in Britain leads to boom in demand for ice cream makers

London, Aug 11: Ice cream makers have seen their sales double this week as the heatwave sweeping across Britain has fuelled a surge in demand. With the Meteorological Office issuing an extreme weather warning from Thursday onwards with highs above 30 degrees Celsius, supermarkets are gearing up...
China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan
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China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan

Beijing, Aug 10: China on Wednesday reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military exercises that have raised tensions between the sides to their highest level in years. The statement issued by the Cabinet's Taiwan...
Issey Miyake, known for bold sculpted designs, dies at 84
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Issey Miyake, known for bold sculpted designs, dies at 84

Tokyo, Aug 10: Issey Miyake, who built one of Japan's biggest fashion brands and was known for his boldly sculpted pleated pieces as well as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' black turtlenecks, has died. He was 84. Miyake died last Friday of liver cancer, the Miyake Design Office said Tuesday. ...
Lights go out at German cathedral to save energy
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Lights go out at German cathedral to save energy

Berlin, Aug 10: Cologne's famous cathedral is going dark to save electricity, as Germany grapples with an energy supply crisis and soaring prices. The ancient city on the Rhine is turning off all the lights on its many representative buildings, the most famous of which is the cathedral itself,...
China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan
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China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan

Beijing, Aug 10: China on Wednesday reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military exercises that have raised tensions between the sides to their highest level in years. The statement issued by the Cabinet's Taiwan...
Meta AI chatbot says Zuckerberg
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Meta AI chatbot says Zuckerberg 'too creepy' and Trump will always be US...

San Francisco, Aug 9: Meta (formerly Facebook) just unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot asking the public to give feedback. The initial reports are scary as the chatbot named BlenderBot 3 thinks Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is "creepy and manipulative" and Donald...
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