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8 fatally shot in Serbia town a day after 9 killed at school
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8 fatally shot in Serbia town a day after 9 killed at school

Guwahati, May 5: A shooter killed at least eight people and wounded 13 in a drive-by attack near a town close to Belgrade late Thursday, the second such mass killing in Serbia in two days, state television reported. The attacker shot randomly at people near the town of Mladenovac, some 50...
Indian-origin kill teens who played doorbell-ringing prank at US
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Indian-origin kill teens who played doorbell-ringing prank at US

Guwahati, April 30: An Indian-origin has been found guilty of killing three teenage boys who played a doorbell-ringing prank at his house in the US state of California, according to a media report. Anurag Chandra, a Riverside County resident, was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder and...
Royal Drama: King
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Royal Drama: King's fractious family on stage at coronation

London, Apr 29: King Charles III lives in a palace, travels in a chauffeur-driven Bentley and is one of Britain's richest men, but he's similar to many of his subjects in one very basic way: His family life is complicated — very complicated. There's a second wife, an embarrassing brother, and an...
Ex-UN head Ban Ki-moon calls for end to Myanmar violence
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Ex-UN head Ban Ki-moon calls for end to Myanmar violence

Bangkok, Apr 25: Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate end to violence in Myanmar after a surprise meeting with the military leaders of the violence-plagued Southeast Asian nation. Ban met Monday in the Myanmar capital Naypyitaw with the leader of the military...
Sudan Crisis: Warring factions agree to 72-hour ceasefire
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Sudan Crisis: Warring factions agree to 72-hour ceasefire

Guwahati, Apr 25: A US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire between Sudan’s warring generals officially came into effect Tuesday after 10 days of urban combat killed hundreds, wounded thousands and sparked a mass exodus of foreigners. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the agreement first and...
Magnitude 7.1 quake hits remote Pacific, no tsunami threat
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Magnitude 7.1 quake hits remote Pacific, no tsunami threat

Wellington, Apr 24: A magnitude 7.1 quake struck in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean on Monday but did not appear to generate a tsunami. The quake struck near the Kermadec Islands about 900 kilometres (560 miles) northeast of New Zealand's North Island at a depth of 49 kilometers (30 miles),...
Two Indian students die while swimming in lake in US
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Two Indian students die while swimming in lake in US

New York, Apr 23: Two Indian students who went missing last week while swimming at a lake in the US state of Indiana are dead, local authorities have confirmed. Siddhant Shah, 19, and Aryan Vaidya, 20, went swimming at Monroe Lake, roughly 102 km southwest of downtown Indianapolis, with a group of...
Buckingham Palace averted Kohinoor ‘side story
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Buckingham Palace averted Kohinoor ‘side story' for King Charles's Coronation,...

London, Apr 23: Buckingham Palace would have been conscious about the potential for controversy around the colonial era Kohinoor diamond claimed by India and averted it becoming a side story of King Charles III and Queen Camilla's Coronation ceremony next month, a royal expert has said. Camilla...
Twitter now tells advertisers to pay for verification or they cant run ads
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Twitter now tells advertisers to pay for verification or they can't run ads

New Delhi, April 21: After removing all legacy Blue check marks and asking individual users to pay for being verified, Elon Musk-run Twitter on Friday asked advertisers to either pay for the verification or they will not be able to run their ads on the platform. Social media consultant Matt...
Indian, Nepali private companies sign agreement for direct energy sale
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Indian, Nepali private companies sign agreement for direct energy sale

Kathmandu, April 19: In a major boost for energy cooperation between Nepal and India, private entities and companies of both countries on Wednesday inked an agreement for selling and buying energy directly. Earlier, this power was only enjoyed by two government or government-owned entities. Now...
India overtakes China to become most populous country: UN report
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India overtakes China to become most populous country: UN report

New Delhi, April 19: India has overtaken China to become the most populous country in the world, suggests data from a newly released United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on Wednesday. According to the UNFPA's The State of World Population Report, 2023, India's population has reached...
Imran Khan fears another assassination attempt during Eid holidays
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Imran Khan fears another assassination attempt during Eid holidays

Islamabad, April 18: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed that he has concrete information about another possible assassination attempt during the upcoming Eid holidays at his residence in Zaman Park, Lahore. He claimed that this would be the second assassination attempt since the...
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