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India predicts a hotter summer, raising power supply worries 01 Apr 2023 - 01:39 pm

Several parts of India are forecast to witness hotter-than-usual weather through June, raising the risk of more strain on the power network as...

Tornado slams Little Rock, smashes rooftops, flips vehicles 01 Apr 2023 - 12:23 am

Little Rock, Arkansas:A tornado plowed through Little Rock and surrounding areas on Friday afternoon, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris...

Romania: Andrew Tate's detention replaced with house arrest 31 Mar 2023 - 11:25 pm

Bucharest, Romania: Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human...

Probe of deadly Black Hawk crash underway in Kentucky 31 Mar 2023 - 11:19 pm

Louisville, Kentucky:The military says the service members who died in a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crash ranged in age from 23 to...

After pizza, prayer and baptisms, Pope set to leave hospital Saturday 31 Mar 2023 - 10:50 pm

Vatican City: Pope Francis paid a surprise visit to children in a cancer ward on Friday, even baptising a baby, as he prepared...

Moscow prison for US reporter was used in Stalin's purges 31 Mar 2023 - 09:10 pm

Lefortovo prison, where AmericanJournalistEvan Gershkovich has been jailed on espionage charges, dates from the czarist era and has been a terrifying symbol of...

Baldwin codefendant gets 6 months probation on gun charge 31 Mar 2023 - 09:02 pm

SANTA FE, New Mexico: A codefendant in the case against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on a...

Italy privacy watchdog blocks ChatGPT, citing data breach 31 Mar 2023 - 08:47 pm

ROME: Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation...

Gwyneth Paltrow wins ski crash law suit 31 Mar 2023 - 08:25 pm

Los Angeles: A jury ruled on Thursday that actress Gwyneth Paltrow is not liable for an accident on a swanky US ski slope,...

Brazil's Lula reschedules China trip for April 11-14 31 Mar 2023 - 08:15 pm

Brasília: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who last week had to cancel a visit to China after coming down with pneumonia,...

IMF Board approves $15.6 billion loan for Ukraine amid war 31 Mar 2023 - 08:04 pm

The International Monetary Fund’s board signed off on a $15.6 billion aid package for Ukraine, the final approval for the institution’s first-ever loan...

Northern Spain ravaged by more than 100 fires 31 Mar 2023 - 07:43 pm

Madrid: More than one hundred illegally started fires ravaged northern Spain on Friday, according to authorities while blazes that raged for over a...

South Africa's Pistorius denied parole decade after killing girlfriend 31 Mar 2023 - 07:27 pm

Pretoria: South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was refused parole on Friday after seeking early release from prison, a decade after he shot...

NATO chief says Finland to become member 'in coming days' 31 Mar 2023 - 06:22 pm

Brussels: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday that Finland would formally become a member within days, as he congratulated its president on...

Greece's prime minister makes border wall an election pledge 31 Mar 2023 - 05:44 pm

THESSALONIKI: Greece’s prime minister promised on Friday to extend a wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkiye as he campaigned...

Japan unveils proposal to promote marriage, raise birthrate 31 Mar 2023 - 05:09 pm

TOKYO: A Japanese Cabinet minister in charge of tackling the country's declining birthrate unveiled a draft proposal on Friday aimed at reversing the...