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Death toll rises to at least 18 in New Delhi railway station stampede
Reuters, Published on 16/02/2025
» NEW DELHI - The death toll in a stampede at the main railway station in India's capital New Delhi rose to at least 18, including five children, media reports said on Sunday, citing the Press Trust of India news agency.
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France: media
Reuters, Published on 25/08/2024
» PARIS: Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unnamed sources.
Indian tunnel rescue bid enters fifth day
Reuters, Published on 16/11/2023
» UTTARKASHI, India - Rescue workers renewed efforts on Thursday to reach 40 men trapped inside a collapsed highway tunnel in India for the fifth day, making slow progress as they began drilling through rock and soil debris.
Putin ally Kudrin steps down from audit chamber
AFP, Published on 29/11/2022
» MOSCOW - A longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexei Kudrin, stepped down Tuesday as the head of the country's audit chamber amid reports he will oversee the reconstruction of tech giant Yandex following sanctions over Ukraine.
Face recognition tech joins Ukraine war
AFP, Published on 25/03/2022
» WASHINGTON: Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said on Thursday.
Belarus strongman faces female rival in tense presidential vote
AFP, Published on 09/08/2020
» MINSK - Belarus holds a high-stakes presidential election on Sunday with a female opposition candidate posing the greatest challenge yet to long-ruling strongman Alexander Lukashenko.
Two die as Rohingya village shelled
Reuters, Published on 25/01/2020
» YANGON: Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village on Saturday, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN’s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority.
Myanmar struggles to digest global anger over Rohingya crisis
AFP, Published on 31/08/2018
» YANGON: Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook over the treatment of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim group whose plight elicits little sympathy in the Buddhist-majority nation.
14m visitors to US face social-media screening
New York Times, Published on 31/03/2018
» Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States -- an estimated 14.7 million people a year -- will be asked to submit their social-media usernames for the past five years, under proposed rules that the State Department issued Friday.