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FBI investigates fire at ballot drop boxes in Portland, Vancouver

The FBI is investigating after two ballot drop boxes in the Portland, Oregon, area were set on fire early on Monday,...

29 Oct 2024 5:57 PM IST

World

Treasury issues rule to block US investors from helping China develop...

Washington: The U.S. Treasury Department, seeking to keep the Chinese military from gaining an edge in advanced...

29 Oct 2024 5:22 PM IST

World

Biden hosts Diwali celebration at White House, Sunita Williams invokes...

Washington: From '260 miles above the earth on the ISS,' Indian-origin American astronaut Sunita Williams extended...

29 Oct 2024 5:15 PM IST

World

Washington Post Withheld Endorsement to Fight Credibility Gap: Jeff...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, said the newspaper’s decision to stop endorsing...

29 Oct 2024 4:49 PM IST

Neighbours

Militants kill two Pakistan police guarding polio vaccination team

On Monday, health workers launched a week-long vaccine drive aiming to immunise more than 45 million children over the...

29 Oct 2024 4:22 PM IST

Africa

Boat carrying Egyptian migrants to Europe capsizes off Libyan coast,...

Al-Abreen, a group that provides humanitarian assistance to migrants in Libya, said on Facebook that the boat capsized...

29 Oct 2024 3:14 PM IST

World

What is UNRWA, Why Israel Banned it

The Israeli parliament has passed the two bills to ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees from operating...

29 Oct 2024 2:58 PM IST

World

Hezbollah names deputy head Naim Qassem as successor to slain chief...

Beirut: Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group on Tuesday said it chose Naim Kassem to replace its slain leader Hassan...

29 Oct 2024 2:39 PM IST

Asia

At least 55 Palestinians killed in strike on Beit Lahiya, Gaza...

Cairo: At least 55 Palestinians were killed and dozens others wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential...

29 Oct 2024 1:52 PM IST

Europe

Execution of German-Iranian by Iran is a 'scandal': Scholz

Berlin: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned late Monday the execution of 69-year-old German-Iranian Jamshid...

29 Oct 2024 12:16 PM IST

Asia

China's Xi pressed Biden to alter language on Taiwan

Washington/Beijing/Taipei: Chinese President Xi Jinping asked U.S. President Joe Biden last year to change the language...

29 Oct 2024 11:37 AM IST

World

Brazil becomes second BRICS country after India to not join China's...

Beijing: In a major setback to China's BRI, Brazil has decided against joining Beijing's multi-billion-dollar initiative...

29 Oct 2024 11:24 AM IST