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26-04-2023 WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden has officially launched his campaign for re-election in 2024, becoming the Democratic frontrunner in a race that could pit him for a second time against Republican contender Donald Trump, according to his campaign video. Biden’s announcement on Tuesday came on the fourth anniversary …

26-04-2023 BEIJING: China’s Mars rover, which has been in longer-than-expected hibernation on the red planet since May 2022, has likely suffered excessive accumulation of sand and dust, its mission designer has said, breaking months of silence about the status of the space vehicle. The fully robotic Zhurong, named after a …

26-04-2023 WASHINGTON: A 17-year-long Cable News Network (CNN) host Don Lemon has been terminated from his post on Monday by the network, he said on Twitter. CEO Chris Licht, in a memo to staff, said: “Don will forever be a part of the CNN family and we thank him for …

26-04-2023 NEW YORK/ PARIS: A recent, rapid heating of the world’s oceans has alarmed scientists concerned that it will add to global warming. This month, the global sea surface hit a new record high temperature. It has never warmed this much, this quickly. Scientists don’t fully understand why this has …

26-04-2023 TEHRAN: Iran formed a secret committee last year to punish celebrities who backed the current anti-government protests, leaked documents seen by the BBC show. In a letter dated 22 September, just six days after the unrest began, the committee sent the economy ministry a list of 141 well-known figures. …

26-04-2023 STOCKHOLM/ LONDON: A hotel in Stockholm, an estate agent’s office in London and a space above a noodle shop in New York City’s Manhattan might seem like innocuous places, but they are among several locations around the world that have played host to alleged Chinese police stations. With most …

26-04-2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE: More than a dozen suspected gang members in Haiti were lynched and their bodies set on fire by residents in the capital Port-au-Prince, police and witnesses said, as the United Nations warned that insecurity in the city had “reached levels comparable to countries in armed conflict”. Haiti National …

25-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ASSAM: To deter any jailbreak or violent rescue attempts, the New Delhi-pressured government of Indian Punjab is moving one of the most vocal pro-Khalistan activists, Amritpal Singh, to prison in the northeastern state of Assam over 2,500 kilometres away from the state that is the …

25-04-2023 NAIROBI: The discovery of 73 dead bodies of people who starved themselves to death near the coastal town of Malindi has sent shockwaves through Kenya. The body count in a case concerning a Kenyan cult that practiced starvation climbed to 73 Monday, police sources told as investigators unearthed more …

25-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Right-wing primetime host Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News immediately, days after the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network settled a historic defamation lawsuit for spreading election lies. In a surprise statement on Monday morning (US time), the company announced that Fox and its highest-rating presenter “had agreed to part …