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Moscow: Google-owned streaming platform YouTube has said it is now blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets globally — not just in Europe where two Russia state-affiliated channels, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, along with their subsidiaries, were sanctioned by the European Union last week. According to TechCrunch, this goes above and beyond any legal mandates to block […]
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London: Covid-19 now could be less deadly than flu in the UK, infectious diseases expert Professor Paul Hunter said, although he warned another variant could still change this. According to the Daily Mail, government figures indicate the virus had a mortality rate of around 0.2 per cent before the ultra-transmissible strain erupted onto the scene. […]
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Tsukuba: A team, led by the University of Tsukuba, found that D-serine serves as a chemical signal that allows tissue migration in marine sea squirts when they lose their tails on transforming from tadpoles into their mature form. The findings offered a broader understanding of the chemical signals that occured during the organism’s transformation and […]
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 79,507,030 and 967,164, according to the CSSE.
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Meanwhile, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that authorities will again try to evacuate stranded people from Mariupol as many earlier attempts have failed due to the Russian bombing and shelling.
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The announcement was first made by Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the President's Office, in a social media post on Friday night.
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The Russian government's communication agency announced it would block Instagram in Russia beginning on March 14, in response to Facebook's decision to temporarily allow users in some countries to call for violence against President Vladimir Putin, reports Vox.com.
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Washington: Russia will pay a severe price for the use of chemical weapons, US President Joe Biden said on Friday, stressing that Washington will not fight Moscow in Ukraine as a direct confrontation between NATO and Kremlin would trigger World War III. On February 24, Russian forces launched military operations in Ukraine, three days after […]
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Residents are required to remain home and undergo three rounds of mass testing, while non-essential businesses have been closed and transport links suspended.
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Police said that the suspect entered Rakesh Patel's car when he was outside it and hit him while fleeing in the vehicle on Tuesday.
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Facebook and Instagram have instituted a temporary change in policy that allows users in some countries to post content that's usually forbidden.
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At the request, and with the help, of the government of Ukraine, Google has started rolling out a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for Android phones in Ukraine.
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One of the main tasks for us today was the organization of humanitarian corridors: Sumy, Trostyanets, Krasnopillya, Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel, Izyum. Within this day, we have already managed to evacuate almost 40,000 our people
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Hyderabad: Telangana Association of United (TAUK), a non-profit organization, promoting Telangana culture in the UK, celebrated International Women’s Day in London on Wednesday. Over 100 women Non-Resident Indians and Indian community organisation representatives from across the UK attended the event. TAUK Vice President Sushmuna Reddy, thanked the president Ratnakar Kadudula for his co-operation and encouragement […]
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Los Angeles: Amazon has joined the growing number of businesses suspending commercial activities in Russia in the wake of the country’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. The e-commerce giant said in a statement that it is cutting off access to Prime Video for customers based in Russia, given “the ongoing situation in Russia and Ukraine.” Amazon […]
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Tehran: A senior Iranian diplomat said it is possible to make a successful conclusion in the Vienna talks on restoring the 2015 nuclear deal if relevant parties make the right political decisions immediately to lift US sanctions. A successful conclusion “is not out of reach if the US and other members of the JCPOA (the Joint […]
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Patel responded to the Senators, who had raised "significant concerns" about autopilot and FSD. They also urged federal regulators to crack down on Tesla to prevent further misuse of the company's advanced driver-assist features.
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The company said that it will no longer be accepting new Russia and Belarus-based AWS customers and Amazon third-party sellers.
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New Delhi: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has already survived more than a dozen attempts on his life, said Mykhailo Podoliak, an advisor to the Head of the Presidents Office. “Foreign sources talk of two or three attempts. I believe that there have been more than a dozen such attempts. We are constantly receiving intelligence that […]
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Baltimore: The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had […]
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Chinese news outlet I-Media has claimed that India has surpassed China to become the most populous country, with a population of 1,415,653,821 on March 4, 2022. There’s no official announcement from either China or India, with the I-Media report saying the source of Indian population (Live) was shared by netizens. Still, the news has been […]
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Hyderabad: The purported reason behind Russia launching a military invasion of Ukraine was the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The expansionism of NATO threatened at some undefined point in the future to allow Ukraine to join the grouping as a treaty ally and thus bring this transatlantic security coalition within striking […]
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KIev: Ukraine will try to evacuate civilians through six “humanitarian corridors” on Wednesday, including from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said. In a video statement, she said Ukrainian Armed forces had agreed to stop firing in those areas for 12 hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to his Netherlands counterpart Mark Rutte and discussed the ongoing situation in the war-torn country of Ukraine, the Ministry of External Affairs said here on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed the ongoing situation in Ukraine and shared their concerns over the continuing humanitarian situation there. “PM Modi […]
