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Palestinian President accepts resignation of Shtayyeh
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Palestinian President accepts resignation of Shtayyeh's govt

Ramallah, Feb 27: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh's government. Abbas on Monday tasked Shtayyeh's government with temporarily continuing its duties until a new government is formed, Palestinian News Agency Wafa...
Record 290 migrants reach UK in boats on single day in Feb
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Record 290 migrants reach UK in boats on single day in Feb

London, Feb 27: The UK Home Office has said that a record 290 people arrived in small boats in a single day, thus taking the migrant Channel crossings in the country to more than 2000 so far this year. This is the highest single-day number recorded on February 25 after 358 people were recorded on...
Tamas Sulyok elected as Hungary
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Tamas Sulyok elected as Hungary's new President

Budapest, Feb 27: Hungarian lawmakers have elected Tamas Sulyok, head of the Constitutional Court, as the country's new President. Out of the 199 lawmakers, 146 participated in the voting on Monday, with 134 votes in favour, five against and seven invalid, Xinhua news agency reported. Most...
UN to hold World Social Summit in 2025
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UN to hold World Social Summit in 2025

United Nations, Feb 27: The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution that decides to convene the World Social Summit in 2025. The summit aims to address the gaps and recommit to the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Program of Action and give momentum to the implementation...
Mexican Foreign Minister urges US to regularise migrants
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Mexican Foreign Minister urges US to regularise migrants' legal status

Mexico City, Feb 27: Highlighting the importance of Mexican migrant workers to the US economy, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena has again urged Washington to regularise their legal status. Addressing a press conference, Alicia Barcena said Mexicans working in the US contribute over $324...
Judge orders Trump to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case
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Judge orders Trump to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case

New York, Feb 17: A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump to pay a fine of nearly $355 million in a civil fraud case. The bombshell ruling from Justice Arthur Engoron came on Friday after a civil trial in New York that was filled with drama, the BBC reported. Trump and his lawyers repeatedly...
Blinken, China
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Blinken, China's Foreign Minister discuss Taiwan, Ukraine war

Washington, Feb 17: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed a range of regional and global issues, including the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and Russia's war in Ukraine during their talks in Germany on Friday, a US State Department spokesperson said. They...
Police identify Indian-origin techie as suspect in US family murder-suicide case
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Police identify Indian-origin techie as suspect in US family murder-suicide case

New York, Feb 16: Indian-American former Meta engineer Anand Henry has been identified as a suspect in a murder-suicide involving himself, his wife and their four-year-old twins in the US state of California, the police said. Henry and his wife Alice Priyanka Benziger, both in their late...
Judge sets date for Trump
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Judge sets date for Trump's New York trial; Atlanta case clouded by tawdry...

New York, Feb 16: A state judge has ordered former President Donald Trump's criminal trial on alleged hush money payments to start on March 25 -- in the middle of the Republican Party primaries -- while in Atlanta, uncertainty over the prosecutor’s conduct clouded the timeline of a case...
Yemen
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Yemen's Houthis claim missile attack on British ship

Sanaa, Feb 16: Yemen's Houthi group has claimed responsibility for attacking a British ship in the Gulf of Aden with several missiles. "We carried out a military operation against a British ship, Lycavitos, while it was sailing in the Gulf of Aden," Yahya Sarea, the Houthi military spokesman,...
Attack on Indian students: US says
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Attack on Indian students: US says 'working very hard' to address the issue

Washington, Feb 16: Asserting that there is no excuse for violence based on race or gender, the White House has said that the US is working very hard to thwart and disrupt attacks on Indians as well as Indian-origin students. A series of attacks beginning this year has put the focus back on the...
Tulsi Gabbard
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Tulsi Gabbard 'open' to talks on running as Trump's mate, discusses foreign...

Washington, Feb 16: Hindu-American Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has spoken to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and his advisors about the country's foreign policy, keeping her options as the former President's 2024 running mate 'open', media reports suggested. The...
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