More than 50% of the votes have been counted so far, election commission says
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In perhaps the least surprising news of the year, Vladimir Putin has triumphed at the Russian ballot box and been enthroned for the fifth time as president. He will serve for six more years.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rebuffed international pressure, vowing that Israel would push ahead with an attack on Hamas militants in Rafah near the Gaza-Egyptian border, even as cease-fire talks were set to resume in Qatar in the coming days.
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Bangaluru, India - Bhavani Mani Muthuvel and her family of nine have around five 20-liter (5-gallon) buckets worth of water for the week for cooking, cleaning and household chores.
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A 64-year-old woman set off a large firecracker, according to media reports
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DHAKA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's first sea-land integrated oil storage and transportation system has been put into commercial operation.
Читать дальше...Islamabad [Pakistan], March 17 (ANI): Amid the economic crisis, Pakistan will make a formal request to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a longer and larger bailout package under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) next month, The Geo News reported on Sunday. The country is expected to seek a fresh IMF bailout package of over USD 8 billion with the possibility of augmentation through climate finance on the occasion o
With Israeli Prime Minister facing a backlash in Israel and globally as he prosecutes a vicious war on Gaza, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has arrived in his second visit to the Jewish state since October 7, and his third overall, to provide Germany's backing.
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The EU chief and five European leaders visited cash-strapped Egypt on Sunday to announce a 7.4-billion-euro financial package focussed on boosting energy trade and stemming irregular migrant flows to the 27-member bloc.
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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda will meet with Arvydas Anusauskas on Saturday
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The attack has caused a fire but led to no casualties, the security ministry of the breakaway region of Moldova told RIA Novosti
Читать дальше...Islamabad [Pakistan], March 17 (ANI): Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has stated that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has kept terrorists in its defence line, ARY News reported on Sunday. "The result will not be good if a party will cross the limit," the defence minister said. "Nothing is cheaper than humiliating the martyrs," he added by talking to the media in Sialkot. He claimed that during the PTI's previous admin
Moscow [Russia], March 17 (ANI): Protests were seen at polling stations on Sunday, the last date of voting in the elections that is expected to extend the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the country, CNN reported. At approximately 12 p.m. local time on Sunday, those who were supporting the late opposition leader Alexey Navalny called on people to vote in unison to demonstrate their support for the opposition.
BOSTON, Massachusetts: This week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said she was seeking to pardon people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession in the years before the state legalized cannabis in 2016.
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SAN FRANCISCO, California: This week, Wells Fargo raised concerns over the waning impact of price cuts by Tesla, the world's most valuable automaker, on the demand for its electric vehicles (EV) and downgraded them to "underweight."
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CAIRO, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and visiting European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday held a meeting on boosting Egyptian-European ties, said the Egyptian presidency.
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Larry Mayer
There's no better word to describe new Bears safety Jonathan Owens than "persistent."
Defined as "firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition," it's something that the 28-year-old has embodied since entering the NFL with the Cardinals in 2018 as an undrafted free agent from Division II Missouri Western State.
Owens sustained a season-ending tor
Palnadu (Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 17 (ANI): TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday exuded confidence that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will form the government in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and said that only the flags of the BJP-TDP-JSP alliance are different, not the agenda. While addressing the people at Boppudi village, in Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu district, the TDP chief said, "I'm happy to see the
India announced Saturday that national polls would begin in April, with Hindu-nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly favoured to win a third term in the world's largest democracy.
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The US might never have another election if he doesn?t win in November, the former president has said
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ADEN, Yemen, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) issued a warning on Sunday after receiving a report of an explosion near a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden.
Читать дальше...Abha [Saudi Arabia], March 17 (ANI): Nicknamed the Bride of the Mountain, the landscape of the city of Abha is not what people would generally associate Saudi Arabia with. Mesmerising views, fresh air, some occasional fog, but most significantly, the mild climate. The temperature was a pleasant 20 degrees Celsius on the first day of training for the Blue Tigers, who have travelled to the capital of the Asir province for t
CAPE TOWN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The annual Cape Town Carnival kicked off in the legislative capital of South Africa on Saturday evening with Chinese elements featured at the event.
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FUZHOU, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL), China's largest automotive lithium-ion battery maker, posted strong net profit growth of 44 percent in 2023.
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ULAN BATOR, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia's central bank has decided to lower its benchmark interest rate to 12 percent, local media reported on Saturday, citing a statement released by the bank.
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