Northern Ireland political party agrees to end 2-year boycott
Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years and rattled the foundations of the 25-year-old peace. The breakthrough could see the shuttered Belfast government restored within days. After a marathon late-night meeting, Democratic Unionist...
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Israeli undercover forces kill 3 militants
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Philippines, Vietnam agree to cooperate on disputed SCS
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China protests deportations of its students
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US, Chinese officials hold meeting in Bangkok: WH
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Indian student who went missing at Purdue University confirmed dead
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Macron gets ceremonial welcome in Sweden
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‘Universe chants Jai Shree Ram’ aerial banner enthrals Indian-Americans
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Indian-origin couple convicted in UK
An Indian-origin couple in the UK, whose extradition was sought by India, has been convicted of exporting more than half a tonne of cocaine to Australia after an investigation found that they were behind a front company that had sent the drugs by plane under a cover load of metal...
Maldives govt approaches SC over Pres impechment bid
Even as the main opposition announced its plan to impeach Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, the government has approached the Supreme Court over the recent amendment to Parliament’s standing orders which makes the process of impeachment easier, according to media reports on Tuesday. The Attorney General’s Office filed the case on Sunday,...
HK begins work on its own National Security Law
Hong Kong began public consultation on a local National Security Law on Tuesday, more than three years after Beijing imposed a similar law that has all but wiped out dissent in the semi-autonomous city. The new law could expand the government’s ability to prosecute residents for offenses like collaborating with...
5 terrorists killed as Pak security officials thwart attack on Mach jail
At least five terrorists of a banned group were killed when Pakistani security forces thwarted at least three coordinated attacks with rockets and sophisticated weapons by militants on a high-security jail in the country’s restive Balochistan province, authorities said on Tuesday.A senior police official said at least 15 rockets were...
Ukraine’s strikes on targets inside Russia expose Putin’s claims
The wail of air raid sirens is commonplace in Belgorod, a Russian border city whose residents are on edge following a Ukrainian missile attack on a New Year’s holiday weekend that left dozens of people dead and injured. A spectacular explosion rocked a huge fuel export terminal on the Baltic...
EU moves toward using profits from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine
European Union nations have decided to approve an outline deal that would keep in reserve the profits from hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian central bank assets that have been frozen in retaliation for Moscow’s war in Ukraine, an EU official said. The tentative agreement, reached late on Monday,...
ChatGPT violated European privacy laws, Italy tells OpenAI
Italian regulators said they told OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules. The country’s data protection authority, known as Garante, said on Monday that it notified San Francisco-based OpenAI of breaches of the EU rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation. The...
