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Boston: As the key trinity of Democratic candidates socialist Bernie Sanders, capitalist Elizabeth Warren and centrist Joe Biden jump start their presidential candidature bids, the latter two appear to be locked in a race to fight Trump in 2020. The race to West Wing has begun in earnest. Joe Biden emerged as someone smelling like roses almost overnight as he strategically chose a new path. His...
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Home Snapchat down again globally, users clueless
San Francisco: Popular photo-messaging app Snapchat suffered a major outage on Monday, with users saying they were unable to send snaps to their friends and family members. At least 15,000 people reported the outage on DownDetector.com, with issues largely affecting the US, Canada and Europe. Netizens took to Twitter to react to the Snapchat issues, with an outpouring of memes. "Me on my bed...
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Home Kurds might be freeing ISIS prisoners: Trump
Washington: President Donald Trump suggested that Kurds could be freeing Islamic State (ISIS) prisoners amid the offensive launched by the Turkish army in northeast Syria in order to compel the United States to get involved in the situation, and warned that big sanctions were about to be imposed on Ankara. "Kurds may be releasing some to get us involved," Trump posted on Twitter on Monday,...
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Home Pakistan offers to host Saudi-Iran talks
Islamabad: Pakistan is pushing for direct talks between Saudi and Iranian officials as part of its ongoing diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions in the Persian Gulf region, informed officials told The Express Tribune. Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was accompanied by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), put forward the proposal during his visit to...
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Home '1 in 3 children under 5 undernourished or overweight'
United Nations: At least one in every three children under five years of age is undernourished or overweight, according to a new Unicef report that sounds the alarm on the consequences of poor diets around the world. In the report published on Monday, the Unicef warned that millions of children were eating too little of the food they need and too much of what they don't need, adding...
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Home President to visit Philippines, Japan from Oct 17
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind will pay a four-day state visit to the Philippines from October 17, and then visit Japan to attend the Enthronement Ceremony of the Japanese Emperor Naruhito. The President's visit to the Philippines is at the invitation of its President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. The state visit is taking place on the occasion of 70 years of establishment of diplomatic...
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Home Indian-American contestant collapses before Miss World America final night
Las Vegas: Indian American beauty Shree Saini collapsed right before Miss World America final night of the competition. Shree will stay in a hospital for a "cardiac arrest watch", says her mother. "Please pray for my daughter Shree Saini. This is Ekta Saini, Shree's mom. Shree collapsed right before Miss World America final night of competition,...
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Home Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee wins Nobel Prize in Economics for study on poverty
Stockholm: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Indian-origin MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty", it was announced on Monday. Banerjee was born in 1961 in Mumbai. He is a PhD from Harvard University and a Professor of...
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Home Ex-LTTE cadre arrested with firearms, explosives
Colombo: A former cadre of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militant group has been arrested with firearms and explosives in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, the police spokesperson said. On information received by an officer of the Serunuwara Army Camp near the Kiliweddi Bridge, Army officers on Friday arrested the suspect Joseph Peter Robinson, the Colombo-based Daily Financial...
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Home 4 foreign teams to observe SL presidential election
Colombo: Four foreign monitoring teams have been granted permission to observe Sri Lanka's presidential election on November 16, the island nation's Election Commission said on Monday. Three of the teams have already arrived on the island on the invitation of the Election Commission, reports Colombo Page. The fourth group of foreign observers was due to arrive in the coming few...
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