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California: Credit card and Payment giants Mastercard and Visa announced that they were suspending operations in Russia and that their cards issued by Russian banks will no longer work outside the country. “Effective immediately, Visa will work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease all Visa transactions over the coming days. Once complete, […]
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New Delhi: India kept sending relief materials to war torn Ukraine as part of humanitarian assistance by the Indian Air Force aircraft deployed for evacuation of stranded nationals through the neighbouring countries. On Sunday, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting shared a video of the relief materials being loaded in IAF’s aircraft by the National […]
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New Delhi: The Indian Embassy in Ukraine on Sunday asked its stranded nationals in the war-torn country to fill up a registration form containing their location and several other important information that might help in their evacuation. “Embassy of India, Kiev, requests all Indian citizens stranded in Ukraine, and are yet to depart from their […]
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New Delhi: The US is preparing a plan to create in Poland a “Ukrainian government with Volodymyr Zelensky in exile”, said The Washington Post citing a source in the American administration. “Now we are preparing plans for any contingency,” the newspaper quoted the source as saying. According to the publication, Ukraine’s allies can help the […]
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London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out a six-point plan to ensure Russia’s defeat in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the media reported on Sunday. Writing in The New York Times, the Prime Minister said that “(Russian President Vladimir Putin) must fail and must be seen to fail in this act of aggression”, […]
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Bangkok: Legendary Australian cricketer Shane Warne, who passed away on Friday following a suspected heart-attack, ‘had experienced chest pains prior to his death in Thailand and had asthma and some heart issues’, according to Irish Times quoting the Thai police. One of the greatest spinners of all time, Warne passed away aged 52 a day […]
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Washington: Some 3,000 Americans have volunteered to fight in Ukraine against the Russian forces trying to invade the country, a media report said citing a representative from Kiev’s embassy in Washington. The representative told VOA News that the “volunteers have responded to Ukraine’s appeal for people to serve in an international battalion that will help […]
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Moscow: Russia has “practically” completed the “mission” of destroying Ukraine’s main military infrastructure, including weapon warehouses, ammunition depots, aviation and air defense systems, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday. “Russian forces will fulfill all their assigned tasks and the operation in Ukraine is proceeding in accordance with the plan and schedule,” Putin was quoted as saying […]
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New York: Mastercard and Visa are suspending their operations in Russia, the companies have said, in the latest blow to the country’s financial system after its invasion of Ukraine. Mastercard Saturday said cards issued by Russian banks will no longer be supported by its network and any card issued outside the country will not work […]
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Kiev: In another video address to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the people of the country “to go on the offensive” as Russia has continued its war on Kiev. In the video posted on Facebook late Saturday night, the President said: “Every meter of our Ukrainian land won by protest and humiliation […]
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New Delhi: Since the beginning of Moscow’s war on Kiev, the Russian forces have lost more than 10,000 people, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has claimed. Also among the losses were 269 tanks, 945 armoured combat vehicles, 105 artillery systems, 50 MLRS, 19 air defense, 39 aircraft, 40 helicopters, UNIAN reported. […]
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New Delhi: The UK government has unilaterally called off the visit of Pakistan National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf without assigning any reason, The News reported. According to the report, the NSA was scheduled to visit the UK next week. Citing sources, The News said that the visit was called off owing to Pakistan’s policy […]
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New Delhi: Rush for safe haven investments during the ongoing market volatility triggered by Russian-Ukrainian conflict is expected to push global gold prices higher. Accordingly, the fears of supply shortages along with robust demand has kept prices higher. Besides, sanctions on Russia which is a major producer of Gold is expected to reduce supply. Last […]
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New Delhi: Horrified, angered and saddened by the images and news coming from the war in Ukraine, Microsoft has announced to suspend all new sales of its products and services in Russia. Brad Smith, President and Vice Chair of Microsoft, said that the company condemns the unjustified, unprovoked and unlawful invasion by Russia. “We are […]
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Mumbai: Another 183 Indians, mostly students, arrived from war-torn Ukraine by an Air India Express flight from Budapest via Kuwait at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), an official said here on Saturday. The flight IX-1603 includes a maximum of 40 persons from Kerala, besides 36 from Andhra Pradesh, 30 from Telangana, 28 from […]
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As was agreed by the Ukrainian side, the humanitarian corridors will allow the exit of civilians from the two cities, the Ministry said, without disclosing how many days the ceasefire will remain in place.
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Washington: Cases of a highly transmissible Omicron subvariant are doubling in the US every week, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The BA.2 variant was responsible for 8.3 per cent of the Covid infections in the country in the week ending February 26, Xinhua news agency quoted […]
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The company's CEO and Co-Founder, Brian Chesky announced on Twitter: "Airbnb is suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus."
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Seoul: More than 6,000 people have been evacuated their homes as firefighters battle a massive wildfire in South Korea’s eastern coastal areas on Saturday. The fire burned an estimated 21,179 acres of woodland in Uljin, about 330 km southeast of Seoul, and its neighbouring city of Samcheok as of Saturday afternoon, according to forest and […]
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The PM also posted an image of him holding a cricket bat with Warne by his side and surrounded by young players.
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Washington: From the earliest days of his first presidential campaign, Donald Trump aggressively challenged the pillars of Republican foreign policy that defined the party since World War II. He mocked John McCain’s capture during the Vietnam War, validated autocrats with his platitudes, questioned longtime military and security alliances and embraced an isolationist worldview. And to […]
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New Delhi: Russia is urging its citizens to switch to domestic smartphone AYYA T1 after American multinational technology giant Apple Inc announced earlier this week its decision of pausing all product sales in the country in response to Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine. Refusing to use the iPhone, Russian State Duma deputies Maria Butina and […]
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"Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint," Musk wrote.
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Doha: The discovery of the oldest known natural pearl bead in Qatar has yet again shone the spotlight on the pearl-diving history of the peninsular country that is on its toes as the host of the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup to be played about eight months later. A local excavation mission led by Ferhan […]
