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Washington: A 10-year-old girl six weeks and three days pregnant in Ohio was denied an abortion in the state after the Supreme Court of US overturned the Roe vs Wade decision last week. The patient is now travelling to Indiana for an abortion, the Hill reported on Saturday. A child abuse doctor in Ohio contacted […]
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Tehran: At least five people were killed and 49 others injured as three earthquakes measuring above 6 on the Richter scale jolted Iran’s southern Hormuzgan province on Saturday, an emergency official said. According to the official, the first 6.1-magnitude quake occurred at a depth of 10 km at 2.02 a.m., followed by two strong tremors […]
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Moscow: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the risk of the spread of Monkeypox in Europe, including Russia, is high. “According to the WHO assessment, at the regional level, the risk in the WHO European Region is high over reports about the widespread outbreak which engulfed several previously untouched countries and some atypical […]
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Bangkok: Two Indian women were arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on charges of smuggling after 109 live animals were found in their luggage, media reports said. The wild animals were discovered following an x-ray of two suitcases of the women travelling to Chennai, CNN reported citing Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation. […]
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Geneva [Switzerland]: ‘Every day there are at least one or two women who commit suicide’, said a former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament on Friday, highlighting the lack of opportunity and ailing mental health that is taking a toll on Afghan women. This revelation came during a rare urgent debate on the woman’s rights […]
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San Francisco: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US has offered a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of ‘Crypto Queen’ Ruja Ignatova. The FBI, which added her to its ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ list, said that Ignatova is being sought for her alleged leadership of a massive […]
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Islamabad: A prominent human rights organization in Pakistan has condemned the assault on senior journalist and former parliamentarian Ayaz Amir by unidentified people that led to outrage in the country. Amir, 73, was reportedly attacked a day after he called Pakistan’s Army generals “property dealers”. “HRCP condemns the assault on senior journalist and former parliamentarian […]
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Washington: US President Joe Biden said that women travelling for abortions across the country will be protected by the federal government as millions of women have lost their constitutional reproductive right after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. Addressing a virtual meet of Democratic Governors on Friday, the President said that […]
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Mebane: A 1-year-old North Carolina child died Friday after being left inside a hot car by the father after he went to work, police said. The Mebane Police Department said officers responded to a call from a manufacturing plant after 12:20 pm following a report of someone in cardiac arrest, according to local news outlets. […]
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San Francisco: The co-founder and former CEO of tech giant Apple Steve Jobs will get the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously on July 7 at the White House by US President Joe Biden. Biden named 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the late tech honcho in one of them. “These 17 Americans demonstrate […]
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Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with visiting Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store to discuss further support for Kiev, the presidential press service said. During the talks on Friday, Zelensky thanked Store for the defense, political and humanitarian support and for the decision to allocate 1 billion euros for Ukraine. For his part, The […]
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Washington: The US ambassador at large for international religious freedom Rashad Hussain has voiced concern over the treatment of a number of religious communities in India and said Washington was dealing directly with Indian officials to address the “challenges.” Addressing the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit here on Thursday, Hussain said his father came from […]
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Hyderabad: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has started following Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu on his official Instagram and Twitter accounts. The development comes days after Mahesh Babu, along with his wife Namrata Shirodkar, met the well-known businessman in New York. Mahesh Babu and Namrata, had in their social media handles, posted pictures after meeting the billionaire […]
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San Francisco: Cyber-security researchers have linked North Korea-backed notorious Lazarus Group with stealing $100 million worth digital tokens from Harmony, the crypto startup behind Horizon Blockchain Bridge. The Lazarus Group has perpetrated several large cryptocurrency thefts totalling over $2 billion, and has recently turned its attention to Decentralised Finance (DeFi) services such as cross-chain bridges, according […]
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Washington: The US Supreme Court has sided with conservative states and fossil-fuel companies, agreeing that the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not have the authority to impose sweeping measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Thursday’s 6-3 ruling represents a major setback to President Joe Biden’s climate plans, reports the BBC. The case against the […]
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Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will announce news regarding his country’s European Union (EU) membership negotiations on Friday. In a video address to the nation late Thursday, the President said: “Our priority, which will also be a task that all representatives of our country will have to complete as quickly as possible, is to prepare […]
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Ottawa: Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam has confirmed a total of 278 cases of monkeypox in the country as of June 29. The cases had been reported nationally, including four cases from British Columbia, five from Alberta, 67 from Ontario and 202 from Quebec, the top doctor said on Thursday. Tam reiterated that […]
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Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has addressed a NATO summit through a video link, urging more defence and financial assistance for Ukraine, the presidential press service reported. In his speech, Zelensky on Wednesday said that Ukraine needs modern missile and air defence systems to protect its cities, and artillery to stand against Russia on the […]
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Jeddah: The NRI community living in Gulf countries are remitting money back home as much as they could, as the Indian rupee continued to plummet. Most foreign exchange companies and banks in the Gulf region have been witnessing an unusual remittance rush as NRI cashing on weakening Indian rupee, which hit an all-time low on […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Google is taking steps to ensure that emails from the US political campaigns reach users’ Gmail inboxes instead of automatically getting dumped into the spam folder, media reports said. The tech giant has asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for approval on a plan to make emails from “authorised candidate committees, […]
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Washington: The US has said it is having “intensive engagement” with key oil consuming countries, including India, on the specifics of how a price cap on Russian oil imports would work, but the issue was not discussed at the level of President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the recent G7 Summit. The […]
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Los Angeles: School shootings in the 2020-21 school year rose to the highest number in 20 years, said a new report released. A total of 93 school shootings with casualties occurred at public and private elementary and secondary schools during last school year, including 43 school shootings with deaths and 50 school shootings with injuries […]
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New Delhi: Leaders from the G7 have finished their three-day meeting in a spa resort in the Bavarian Alps with a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, even as they agreed for close collaboration with developing countries to boost clean energy and resilience through new initiatives, comprising its commitment for Just Energy Transition Partnership with […]
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London: Latest data released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) showed the number of confirmed monkeypox cases in the country has reached 1,076. According to UKHSA, up to June 26, 2022, there were 1,076 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK. Of these, 27 were in Scotland, five in Northern Ireland, nine in Wales and […]