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mahsa amini death

22 Sep 2022

Over 31 killed in Iran after crackdown on protestors against 'morality police'

At least 31 civilians have been killed in a crackdown by the Iranian security forces Clashes erupted between security forces and protesters over Mahsa Amini's death The scope of Iran's ongoing unrest, the worst in several years, still remains unclear

Dehradun accident

31 Oct 2021

11 killed, 4 injured in road accident in Dehradun's Chakrata

"My condolences to those who died in the heart-rending road accident on Bulhad-Baila road in the Chakrata area," CM Dhami expressed.

11 Sep 2021

Here’s how Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft made billions during war

The Department of Defense alone has spent $43.8 billion on Big Tech contracts since 2004, said the report. The report said Microsoft had benefited from a leap in defense contracts during the Trump administration, with a six-fold increase in the number of deals signed between 2016 and 2018. The tool only includes contracts for which information is publicly available, so the figures given in the report are "very likely an underrepresentation", the report said.

03 Apr 2020

Google to publish user location data to help govt tackle COVID-19 pandemic

The reports on users' movements in 131 countries will be made available on a special website and will "chart movement trends over time by geography," according to a post on one of the company's blogs.

09 Mar 2020

Ghani takes oath as Afghan Prez, his rival holds parallel function amid blast

Afghanistan lurched deeper into political crisis on Monday (March 9) as the rivals for the country's leadership had themselves sworn in at simultaneous ceremonies that were interrupted by at least two blasts.

06 Mar 2020

Boeing CEO David Calhoun blames his predecessor for 737 MAX crisis

Calhoun, a longstanding board member who took over as chief executive on January 13, told the New York Times that the problems at Boeing were even bigger than he anticipated.

Javier Perez de Cuellar

05 Mar 2020

Former UN chief Javier Perez de Cuellar dies

Former United Nations chief Javier Perez de Cuellar, who led the world body during the Iran-Iraq war and the civil war in El Salvador, died Wednesday in his native Peru, his son said.

05 Mar 2020

10 more coronavirus cases in United States; emergency declared in Los Angeles

Nine people have died of the COVID-19 illness in the US and more than 130 have so far been infected, with the virus detected in more than a dozen states.

02 Mar 2020

Vatican opens archives on history's most controversial Pope Pius XII

Award-winning German religious historian Hubert Wolf will be in Rome on Monday, armed with six assistants and two years of funding to start exploring documents from the "private secretariat" of the late pope.

02 Mar 2020

North Korea fires two unidentified projectiles, says South Korea military

The North carried out a series of weapons tests late last year, the last of them in November, often describing them as multiple launch rocket systems, although others called them ballistic missiles. It also carried out static engine tests, most recently in December.

27 Feb 2020

Coronavirus outbreak: US, South Korea postpone joint military exercises

More than 80 percent of the South's cases are in Daegu -- South Korea's fourth largest city with a population of 2.5 million -- and the neighbouring province of North Gyeongsang.

25 Feb 2019

US to delay China tariff increase: Donald Trump

The United States is delaying a planned increase of tariffs on more than USD 200 billion in Chinese exports after "substantial progress" made in trade talks, President Donald Trump said Sunday.

20 Feb 2019

North Korea's US envoy arrives in Hanoi ahead of Donald Trump-Kim summit

An AFP reporter saw Kim Hyok Chol walk into a government guesthouse where other North Korean officials in town for pre-summit preparations were staying over the weekend.

20 Feb 2019

Benjamin Netanyahu-Vladimir Putin meeting in Russia postponed

A new date for the meeting would be set as soon as possible, said an official.

18 Feb 2019

Maldives arrests ex-leader Yameen over witness tampering: Officials

Yameen, who came to power in 2013, was summoned to the Criminal Court Sunday to formally receive his indictment.

31 Aug 2018

Donald Trump threatens to pull United States out of WTO

Trump, who has previously criticized the WTO's dispute settlement system as being unfavorable to the US, said Washington had "rarely won a lawsuit" there although things began changing last year.

21 Aug 2018

Britain to US, Europe: 'Go further' to counter Russia's malign behaviour

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is to meet on Wednesday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, will ask London's allies to do more.

07 Aug 2018

US reimposes tough, unilateral sanctions against Iran

The re-imposition of fresh sanctions by the United States has evoked a sharp reaction from Iran.

Novichok attack

19 Jul 2018

British police 'identify' Novichok suspects: Report

Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed in Salisbury on March 4 after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok.

15 Jul 2018

Turkey marks second coup anniversary

Turkey on Sunday commemorated the second anniversary of a bloody coup attempt which was followed by a series of purges in the public sector and changes to boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.

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