07-04-2022 PORTLAND: Author of ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Nancy Crampton-Brophy has gone on trial for murdering her husband, chef Daniel Brophy in June 2018, The Independent reported on Monday. Crampton-Brophy, 71, has remained in custody since her arrest in September 2018, facing a murder charge for the death of …
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06-04-2022 WASHINGTON: The US military announced Tuesday a new test of a hypersonic missile, as Pentagon officials seek to match or get ahead of China’s and Russia’s advances in the cutting-edge strategic weapons technology. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it had recently completed a free flight test …
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06-04-2022 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign, a minister said on Wednesday, despite demonstrations against his handling of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades and as doctors held street protests over a shortage of medicine. Rajapaksa, governing the country since 2019 with other family members in …
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06-04-2022 NEW DELHI: The Indian government did not apply the law when the country’s central bank breached the 2020 inflation target, documents accessed by The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) and Al Jazeera through the Right to Information Act show. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), under Governor Shaktikanta Das, was unable …
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06-04-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ KARACHI: Who says that United States of America is a peaceful, educated and most livable country because neither there is law and order situation is under controlled in America nor Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) as well as other concerned …
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06-04-2022 PYONGYANG: The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened South Korea with nuclear retaliation if provoked after Seoul highlighted its supposed pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North. In a statement published by North Korea’s state media on Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong called South Korea defence …
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06-04-2022 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: The Australian government began seeking controversial powers to crack encrypted communications almost two years before unveiling landmark anti-encryption legislation branded “dangerous” by tech industry leaders, newly obtained documents reveal. Australia in 2018 passed world-first laws to force tech companies and service providers to build capabilities …
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05-04-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A case was registered against controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand along with other speakers at a Hindu Mahapanchayat, for alleged hate speeches, including statements that “50% of Hindus will convert” in 20 years if a Muslim becomes the prime minister of the country and urging people …
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05-04-2022 UNITED NATIONS/ MOSCOW/ KYIV: Global outrage is mounting over the discovery of dozens of bodies, some with their hands bound, in towns near the Ukrainian capital after invading Russian troops retreated from the area. Ukraine has accused Russia of carrying out the killings in towns near Kyiv, including in …
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05-04-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A year after the government led by Narendra Modi’s BJP came to power in 2014, the top finance ministry official accused the Reserve Bank of India of setting interest rates to benefit developed countries and sought a probe into its conduct, a trove …
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