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Cops arrest Gandhi scions as protests flare in India
Indian police arrested several opposition leaders, including Congress leaders Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi, yesterday heading for the site where a low-caste woman died after being gang-raped in the latest high-profile assault to whip up nationwide anger and protests.
1 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Stranded migrants need dignified return: UN body
The UN Committee on Migrant Workers has called on governments to take immediate action to address the inhumane conditions of migrant workers who are stranded in detention camps, and ensure their orderly, safe and dignified return to their home countries.
1 October 2020, 16:07 PM
Google plans to invest $1bn in deals with news partners
Google plans to invest $1 billion in partnerships with news publishers worldwide to develop a "Showcase" app to highlight their reporting packages, chief executive Sundar Pichai said today.
1 October 2020, 15:51 PM
Amazon and Big Tech cozy up to Biden camp with cash and connections
Amazon appears to have taken an early lead making in-roads with the Biden camp, while Tech is strengthening relationships in case of a Biden victory to ensure they have a voice in an onslaught of federal and state investigations into their business practices.
1 October 2020, 15:14 PM
Navalny blames Putin for poisoning, vows to return to Russia
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has told a German magazine he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind his suspected poisoning, adding that he is not afraid and would return to Russia to resume campaigning.
1 October 2020, 13:06 PM
Invest $500b a yr to protect nature
British broadcaster David Attenborough yesterday led a call from conservation groups for the world to invest $500 billion a year to halt the destruction of nature, warning that the future of the planet was in “grave jeopardy”.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Herd-immunity’ still a far cry
More than 60 million people in India -- 10 times the official figure -- could have contracted the novel coronavirus, the country’s lead pandemic agency said, indicating the so called herd-immunity is still a far cry from ground reality.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Defying EU, UK House okays bill
Britain’s House of Commons has approved legislation that gives ministers the power to break its divorce deal with the European Union, despite the threat of legal action from Brussels and unrest within the governing Conservative Party.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
First US Presidential Debate in Quotes
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30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Rivals vow to keep fighting
Armenia and Azerbaijan vowed to keep fighting and rejected international calls for negotiations yesterday as clashes over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region raged for a fourth day.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Japan’s military seeks record $52b budget
Japan’s defence ministry yesterday unveiled a record $52-billion budget request in a push to maintain military readiness under pressure from China and North Korea.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
World’s first patient cured of HIV dies after cancer returns
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV when he had a unique type of bone marrow transplant, has died in California after relapsing with cancer, his partner said. Brown, born on March 11, 1966, became known as the “Berlin Patient” after his HIV was eradicated by treatment there in 2007.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Nations must fund WHO’s vaccine plan
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday it is time for countries to start using money from their national Covid-19 recovery and response plans to help fund the World Health Organization’s global vaccine plan.
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Russia jails Gulag historian for 13 years, overturns earlier sentence
A Russian court has abruptly handed Yuri Dmitriev, a historian of Stalin-era crimes, a 13-year jail term after overturning an earlier sentence on charges that his supporters say were fabricated to punish him for his work.
30 September 2020, 17:03 PM
Belgium finally gets new PM, 16 months after vote
Flemish liberal leader Alexander De Croo will be Belgium's new prime minister at the head of a seven-party coalition government, it was announced Wednesday -- 16 months after an inconclusive election.
30 September 2020, 14:59 PM
US intelligence reports warn of domestic extremist threat around election
US security officials are warning that violent domestic extremists pose a threat to the presidential election next month, amid what one official called a “witch’s brew” of rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns.
29 September 2020, 18:12 PM
Sushant Singh case: AIIMS panel rules out poisoning
There was “no poisoning” involved in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, a team of doctors from Delhi’s AIIMS has reportedly said in its report to the CBI.
29 September 2020, 18:00 PM
India gang rape victim’s death sparks outrage
A Dalit teenager allegedly raped by four upper-caste men died of her injuries yesterday, sparking outrage from Indian activists, politicians and Bollywood stars.
29 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Putin slams ‘external pressure’
French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday promised to help with mediation in the political crisis in Belarus, but Russian Vladimir Putin lashed out at “unprecedented external pressure”.
29 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Heavy losses as fighting rages
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces claimed to have inflicted heavy losses as fighting raged for a third day yesterday over Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh.
29 September 2020, 18:00 PM