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IT issues force cancellation of 43 British Airways flights
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IT issues force cancellation of 43 British Airways flights

London, May 26: IT issues have forced the cancellation of 43 British Airways flights scheduled to depart and arrive into London's Heathrow airport. The flights were cancelled as of 5 p.m. on Thursday evening, the BBC reported citing aviation data firm Cirium as saying. About 800 flights in...
Germany falls into recession
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Germany falls into recession

Berlin, May 26: Germany has fallen into recession after high prices took a bigger toll on the country's economy than originally anticipated, official data revealed on Thursday. The data by Germany's federal statistical office showed gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.3 per cent in the first...
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Pakistan's former PM Imran Khan behind May 9 attack on military establishments:...

Lahore, May 25: Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan and his close aides coordinated the unprecedented attacks on the military installations in Lahore and other parts of Punjab province on May 9 following his arrest, the Punjab police chief alleged on Thursday. Citing a geo-fencing...
Damage to Russian-occupied dam submerges Ukrainian reservoir island community
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Damage to Russian-occupied dam submerges Ukrainian reservoir island community

Lysohirka (Ukraine), May 25: The rising waters came as a relief at first, for both the tiny community living on the islands in the southern Kakhovka Reservoir and for everyone who had feared the low levels risked a meltdown at the nearby Russian-occupied nuclear power plant. Since mid-February,...
Pak court grants Imran Khan Bail in 8 cases related to Judicial Complex violence
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Pak court grants Imran Khan Bail in 8 cases related to Judicial Complex violence

Islamabad, May 23: Former prime minister Imran Khan got a major relief on Tuesday when an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan granted him bail till June 8 in eight cases related to violence that erupted at the Judicial Complex here in March. The cases were registered in different police stations of...
Nepals Kami Rita Sherpa climbs Mt. Everest for record 28th time
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Nepal's Kami Rita Sherpa climbs Mt. Everest for record 28th time

Kathmandu, May 23: Setting another record, Nepal's legendary climber, Kami Rita Sherpa, summited Mt. Everest for an unprecedented 28th time on Tuesday, just a week after he scaled the world's tallest peak for the 27th time. The 53-year-old reached the summit of the 848.86-metre peak at 9.23 a.m.,...
Australian doctor freed 7 years after abduction in West Africa
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Australian doctor freed 7 years after abduction in West Africa

An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive in West Africa for more than seven years has been released and safely returned to his family, the Australian government has announced. Kenneth Elliott, from the west coast city of Perth, is safe and well and has been reunited with his wife Jocelyn and...
Pasang Dawa summits Mt. Everest for record 27 times, ties with Kami
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Pasang Dawa summits Mt. Everest for record 27 times, ties with Kami

Kathmandu, May 22: Pasang Dawa Sherpa on Monday scaled Mt. Everest for the 27th time, equalising a world record for the highest number of ascents set earlier by Kami Rita Sherpa. On Monday, the 46-year-old mountaineer stood atop Mt. Everest for the 27th time at 8.25 am today, Dawa Gyaljen Sherpa,...
UKs Coventry gets its 1st Indian-origin turban-wearing Lord Mayor
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UK's Coventry gets its 1st Indian-origin turban-wearing Lord Mayor

London, May 22: An Indian-origin Sikh councillor has made history after being appointed as the new Lord Mayor of Coventry, a city in the West Midlands, England. As a Lord Mayor, Punjab-born Jaswant Singh Birdi will be the Chairman of the City Council, and as Coventry's first citizen, he will be the...
Climate change to push 30 per cent species over tipping points: Study
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Climate change to push 30 per cent species over tipping points: Study

New Delhi, May 22: Climate change is likely to abruptly push up to 30 per cent species over tipping points as their geographic ranges reach unforeseen temperatures, according to a study. The researchers found that if the planet warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius, 15 per cent of species they studied...
Mexico: 10 killed, 9 injured as gunmen open fire at car race participants
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Mexico: 10 killed, 9 injured as gunmen open fire at car race participants

Mexico City, May 21: At least ten people were killed and nine others injured in an armed attack targeting a group of amateur rally drivers in a car race in the Mexican state of Baja California, local media reported. A group of armed individuals got out of a vehicle and opened fire at the car race...
Ukrainian president meets with world leaders at G7 as Russia claims a key victory in the war By Adam Shreck, Foster Klug and Zeke Miller
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Ukrainian president meets with world leaders at G7 as Russia claims a key...

Hiroshima, May 21: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy huddled with some of his biggest backers in Hiroshima on Sunday, building momentum for his country's war effort even as Russia claimed a symbolic victory on the battlefield. The Ukrainian leader's in-person appearance in his trademark...
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