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Top US, China diplomats hold constructive talks
Top diplomats from the US and China on Friday held a “candid and constructive” discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia’s war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids, the State Department said. The meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang...
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Top 10 world news: ISRO satellite launch; Navalny spokeswoman confirms death; and more
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) on Saturday (Feb 17) successfully launched INSAT-3DS satellite marking its second successful launch this year. In other news spokeswoman of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny confirmed his death. Read this and more in Top 10 World News. ISRO’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was used for the launch that took place...
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Pakistan downgraded to “authoritarian regime”, records greatest deterioration in Asia, Australia: Report
Pakistan becomes the only Asian country to be downgraded to an “authoritarian regime”, registering the greatest deterioration of any country in the region classified as “Australia and Asia“, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit‘s (EIU) Democracy Index 2023 report. It has been reclassified from a “hybrid regime” to an “authoritarian regime”, Geo News reported, citing...
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The snow comes just in time as Minnesota prepares to welcome top athletes for World Cup ski race
Last week, the grass at Theodore Wirth Park was visible, with a manmade snow track curling through the otherwise snowless landscape. What a difference a week, and a storm, can make. This weekend’s COOP FIS World Cup ski race will bring the top athletes in cross country skiing to Minneapolis. The course there got a...
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Top UN official branded ‘pathetic,’ a ‘collaborator of Hamas’ for saying group is not a terrorist organization
A top United Nations official has been slammed as “pathetic” and a “collaborator of Hamas” after he claimed the group is not a terrorist organization. Martin Griffiths, the head of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, was asked Wednesday about the feasibility of Israel’s goal to eliminate Hamas and prevent the terrorist...
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Top UN court rejects South African request for urgent measures to safeguard Rafah
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top UN court on Friday rejected a South African request to impose urgent measures to safeguard Rafah in the Gaza Strip, but also stressed that Israel must respect earlier measures imposed late last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case. The International Court of Justice said...
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Top 10 world news: Putin critic Navalny reportedly dead, India-Taiwan move forward with key pact, and more
The biggest development of the day came from a prison just 100 km west of Moscow when reports emerged that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic Alexei Navalny had died. Reactions poured in from across the world as leaders pointed fingers at Putin for alleged role in Navalny’s death. In West Asia, the war...
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Top news of the day: Putin critic Navalny reported dead in jail, world leaders blame Kremlin; I-T tribunal allows Congress to operate bank accounts hours after party announces they were frozen, and more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears via a video link from the Arctic penal colony during a hearing at Russia’s Supreme Court in Moscow on January 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny reported dead; Western leaders blame Kremlin Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most famous opposition leader, died on February 16 after...
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Slovak President Zuzana Caputova challenges plan to dismantle top prosecutor’s office
Slovakia’s president, Zuzana Caputova, is challenging a recent amendment that eliminates the special prosecutor’s office handling major crime and corruption. Caputova is seeking to freeze the legislation, which was approved by lawmakers loyal to populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. The amendment, passed in early February, has faced criticism domestically and internationally. Slovakia’s president said Friday...
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India ‘most protectionist’ country, claims Trump’s top trade adviser in new book
WASHINGTON: When Robert Lighthizer, who served as President Donald Trump’s trade representative between 2017 and 2021, prepared for trade negotiations with Indian counterparts, he kept the biographies of 15 Indian billionaires on his desk. He believed that while India had an “extremely strong professional bureaucracy” in all areas of government, it was also “unusual in...
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Recession has struck some of the world’s top economies but the U.S. keeps defying expectations
NEW YORK – As some of the world’s biggest economies stumble into recession, the United States keeps chugging along. Both Japan and the United Kingdom said Thursday their economies likely weakened during the final three months of 2023. For each, it would be the second straight quarter that’s happened, which fits one lay...