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    Will Smith confronts Chris Rock, then wins best actor Oscar
    Entertainment

    Will Smith confronts Chris Rock, then wins best actor Oscar

    LOS ANGELES: When Will Smith marched onto the Oscars stage and smacked Chris Rock, the unpredictable moment served as a jarring interruption to Hollywood's feel-good celebration.But once Smith returned moments later to accept his first-ever Academy Award, he delivered a tearful apology for an act...
    Russian stock market, crushed by war, will partially reopen
    International

    Russian stock market, crushed by war, will partially reopen

    New York, Mar 24: Russia is reopening its stock market for limited trading nearly one month after shares plunged and the exchange was shut down following the invasion of Ukraine. There will be heavy restrictions on trading Thursday as the exchange opens to prevent the kind of massive selloff...
    Ukraine president pleads for worldwide show of support
    International

    Ukraine president pleads for worldwide show of support

    Kyiv, Mar 24: Ukraine President Volodymr Zelenskyy called on people worldwide to gather in public Thursday to show support for his embattled country on the one-month anniversary of the Russian invasion that he said breaks the heart of "every free person on the planet." Zelenskyy — whose video...
    Biden, Western allies gather at tense moment in Ukraine war
    International

    Biden, Western allies gather at tense moment in Ukraine war

    Brussels, Mar 24: As the war in Ukraine grinds into a second month, President Joe Biden and Western allies are gathering to chart a path to ramp up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin while tending to the economic and security fallout that's spreading across Europe and the world. Over...
    In 11th hour decision Taliban hold to ban on girls education
    International

    In 11th hour decision Taliban hold to ban on girls education

    Kabul, Mar 23: In a surprise decision the hardline leadership of Afghanistan's new rulers decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond Grade 6, a Taliban official said Wednesday on the first day of Afghanistan's new school year. The latest setback for girls education is...
    Search of China crash site suspended as rain slicks slopes
    International

    Search of China crash site suspended as rain slicks slopes

    Wuzhou (China), Mar 23: The search for clues into why a plane made an inexplicable dive and crashed into a mountain in southern China was suspended Wednesday as rain slicked the debris field and filled the red-dirt gash formed by the plane's fiery impact. Earlier, searchers had used hand tools,...
    Ukraine refugee exodus surpasses 3.5 million
    International

    Ukraine refugee exodus surpasses 3.5 million

    Geneva, Mar 22: The UN refugee agency says more than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion, passing another milestone in an exodus that has led to Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II. UNHCR reported Tuesday that 3.53 million people have left Ukraine, with...
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    International

    Dubai's busy airport to shut one runway for overhaul

    Dubai, Mar 22: Dubai's main airport, the world's busiest for international travel, will overhaul one of its two runways for 45 days, starting in May, the operator said on Tuesday. The closure will likely lead to flight reductions ahead of the traditional start of the summer season. The...
    Ukraine rejects Russian demand for surrender in Mariupol
    International

    Ukraine rejects Russian demand for surrender in Mariupol

    Lviv (Ukraine), Mar 21: Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged strategic port city. Russia has been barraging the encircled southern city on the Sea of Azov,...
    Ammonia leak contaminates area in east Ukraine
    International

    Ammonia leak contaminates area in east Ukraine

    Lviv, Mar 21: An ammonia leak at a chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has contaminated an area with a radius of more than 5 kilometers (3 miles), officials said early Monday. Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy didn't say what caused the leak. The Sumykhimprom plant is...
    Surrogate babies born in Ukraine wait out war in basement
    International

    Surrogate babies born in Ukraine wait out war in basement

    Kyiv (Ukraine), Mar 20: At a makeshift basement bomb shelter in Ukraine's capital, at least 20 babies born to surrogate mothers are waiting for their foreign parents to be able to travel to the war-torn country and take them home. Some just a few days old, the infants are well cared for, but even...
    Hundreds feared trapped in Ukraine theater hit by airstrike
    International

    Hundreds feared trapped in Ukraine theater hit by airstrike

    Kyiv, Mar 17: Ukrainian authorities struggled to determine the fate of hundreds of civilians who had been sheltering in a theater smashed by a Russian airstrike in the besieged city of Mariupol as officials said Russian artillery Thursday destroyed more civilian buildings in another frontline city. ...
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