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Luanda: A rare 170-carat pink diamond, weighing 34 grams, thought to be the largest in the last 300 years, has been discovered in Angola. The pink stone has been named the “Lulo Rose”, after the mine in Angola where it was found. It will be sold later this year through an international tender to be conducted […]

Mogadishu: At least 19 people were killed and 23 others injured in separate bombings in two towns of southern Somalia, officials said. In the first incident, 13 people lost their lives while five others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Marka town, of the Lower Shabelle region, reports Xinhua news agency. Governor […]

Beijing: Nearly a million people in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province where the Covid-19 pandemic was first recorded, have been placed under a lockdown after four asymptomatic cases were detected, the media reported on Thursday. According to a BBC report, the lockdown has been imposed in the city’s Jiangxia district and the residents have […]

London: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif wants early general elections and has discussed with the senior party leadership the option of quitting the government in the Centre, media reports said. Nawaz Sharif has discussed this several times with top leaders of the party including Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and also with the […]

St. Paul: The last two former Minneapolis police officers to be sentenced for violating George Floyd’s civil rights are scheduled to learn their penalties on Wednesday, which could set in motion another round of plea deal discussions in state court over a killing that sparked a reckoning on racial injustice. J. Alexander Kueng and Tou […]

Manila: The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology revised down to 7 the magnitude and relocated the epicentre of the earthquake that rattled Abra province in the northern Philippines on Wednesday. The institute first reported the magnitude as 7.3, and the epicenter was Lagangilang town. An updated report changed the epicentre to Tayum town. The […]

New York: Two Indian-origin men have been charged with the alleged killing of two others in a gang-related violence in Canada, according to police. Gursimran Sahota, 24, and Tanvir Khakh, 20, were charged with first-degree murder on Monday, said Sergeant David Lee, Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. They had been arrested shortly after Meninder Dhaliwal and Satindera […]

San Francisco: Uber has admitted that it covered up a massive data breach in 2016 that exposed data pertaining to approximately 57 million users and 600,000 drivers’ license numbers. The ride-hailing platform has entered a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve a criminal investigation into the coverup of a significant data breach suffered by […]

San Francisco: Amid several media reports appearing on Elon Musk’s activities, the tech billionaire on Tuesday said that the attention which he is getting currently “super sucks”, and he will continue to focus on doing useful things. On the microblogging site, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO expressed his displeasure of the unwanted media attention that […]

London: China represents the “largest threat” to Britain and the world’s security and prosperity this century and there is evidence to suggest it has targeted countries from the US to India, UK Prime Ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The 42-year-old former Chancellor set out a series of plans he would undertake if elected […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday congratulated India’s new President Droupadi Murmu, recalling the close ties between the two nations and underlining that her leadership offers “fresh impetus” to the joint endeavours to nurture and strengthen the cordial ties it enjoys. Murmu, 64, took over as India’s 15th president on Monday, the […]

Islamabad: Pakistan has announced telescopic monitoring of Indian passengers arriving in the country through air or land routes amid a surge in Covid-19 cases caused by the Omicron sub-variant BA-275. The Directorate of Health Sciences issued a circular in this regard on the instructions of Health Minister Qadir Patel, The Express Tribune reported. Lahore’s Allama […]

Los Angeles: As many as two people were killed and five others were injured in a shooting that occurred between two groups at a park in Los Angeles on Sunday evening. The shooting occurred inside Peck Park in San Pedro during an ongoing car show at 4 pm (local time), the Newyork Post reported. Investigators […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Presidential Secretariat, which was stormed by a sea of anti-government protesters in early July, is set to return to functioning from Monday under a tight security cover, according to a media report. Cleaning and repair work was underway to ready the Presidential Secretariat over the weekend as security forces opened Galle Road […]

San Francisco: Authorities have declared a state of emergency in part of California as a wildfire continued to rage near the Yosemite National Park. The state of emergency has been declared in Mariposa County and in a statement, California Governor Gavin Newsom said the flames were being “driven by hot, dry weather and drought conditions”. The […]

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of “barbarism” over a missile attack on the Odesa port which took place just hours after a landmark grain export deal was signed between Kiev and Moscow. Under Friday’s deal signed in Istanbul, Russia agreed not to target Ukrainian ports while grain shipments were in transit, the […]

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation on Saturday declared the monkeypox as public health emergency of international concern. The global health body said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency. “WHO’s assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and […]

Washington: Three people were killed in a shooting at a park in the US state of Iowa and the suspected gunman is also dead, police said in a statement. Police were notified of a triple homicide at the Maquoketa Caves State Park campground in Jackson County at about 6.23 a.m. on Friday, Xinhua news agency […]

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that about 30 soldiers were dying on the frontline everyday now, a significant reduction since the peak of the ongoing war in May and June when 100-200 troops were killed on a daily basis. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the President said that at the height of […]

Washington: Health officials in the US have confirmed a case of polio, the first in nearly a decade in the country, in an unvaccinated man. The last known case was in 2013. Results of lab tests have confirmed revertant polio Sabin type 2 virus in the 20-year-old man, a resident of Rockland County, according to a […]

Colombo: Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday. Gunawardena, parliamentarian of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party, took his oath in the capital Colombo in the presence of other senior legislators, Xinhua news agency reported. Wickremesinghe was elected as the new President of the […]

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has reconvened the Monkeypox Emergency Committee to assess the public health implications of the evolving multi-country outbreak. This comes as global cases passed 14,000, with six countries reporting their first cases last week. The committee first met last month but decided against declaring it a public health emergency of […]

New York: Two Indian brothers and their Indian-American friend have been charged in the US in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading scheme in which they made illicit profits totalling over a million dollars. Ishan Wahi, 32, and his brother Nikhil Wahi, 26, are citizens of India and were residing in Seattle while Sameer Ramani, 33, […]

Sydney: Researchers from Australian universities developed a spray that can stop the spread of bacteria and viruses, including the Covid-19 virus. Published in the journal Advanced Science, the long-lasting spray coats common surfaces and repels viruses and bacteria through an air-filled barrier as well as killing pathogens, Xinhua news agency reported. One of its inventors, biomedical […]