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Blackouts in over 1,000 Ukraine towns after massive Russian rocket attacks
Kiev: More than a thousand towns and villages across Ukraine remain without power after massive Russian attacks in recent days, Ukrainian officials said, as per media reports. Emergency services spokesman Oleksandr Khorunzhyi…
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Musk denies talking to Putin recently about Ukraine war
San Francisco: Tech tycoon Elon Musk has refuted a claim made by political scientist and founder of Eurasia Group Ian Bremmer that he recently discussed “the minimum the Russian President would require…
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Russia: Meta added to list of ‘terrorist and extremist’ organisations
Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, on Tuesday, flagged and added the U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. (META.O) as “terrorists and extremists”, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. An appeal by…
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Avoid all non-essential travel to and within Ukraine: India tells its citizens
Moscow: Concerned over the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine, India on Monday advised its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to and within Ukraine and asked them to strictly follow the safety…
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Putin faces grim choices after blast hits prized Crimea bridge
Kryvyi Rih: An explosion that severely damaged parts of the road and rail bridge between annexed Crimea and the Russian mainland early Saturday seems designed to play into President Vladimir Putin’s current…
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Erdogan says Turkey ready to help resolve Ukraine crisis
Ankara: Turkey was ready to contribute to a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis in the interests of all, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a…
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Gold gains Rs 152; silver jumps Rs 333
New Delhi: Gold prices in the national capital rose by Rs 152 to Rs 49,871 per 10 grams on Wednesday, amid a rise in international precious metal prices along with rupee depreciation,…
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Russian missile just misses nuclear power plant in Southern Ukraine
A Russian missile, on Monday, struck close to a nuclear power plant situated in Southern Ukraine. The area where the missile struck is just 300 meters from the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant, also…
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UAE: Newspaper Al Roeya’s report on price hike results in its closure
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have arbitrarily closed a local newspaper ‘Al Roeya’ and dismissed dozens of its employees due to a report on high fuel prices, local media…
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Double standards: Russia slams West’s criticism of India over oil imports
New Delhi: The criticism of India by the Western countries on its imports of Russian crude oil while exempting themselves from their “own illegitimate sanctions” is a reflection of their unprincipled position…
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Ukraine is bankrupt: Moscow
Moscow: Ukraine has lost its financial independence as it cannot meet its obligations to its citizens without Western help, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on Monday, media reports said. Taking…
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EU ban on Russian coal imports to take effect after transition ends
Brussels: European Union (EU) member states will not be allowed to import any more coal from Russia after the transitional period for the bloc’s embargo ends at midnight on Wednesday. The embargo…
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Missile attack near Ukrainian nuke plant kills 11
Kiev: At least 11 people were killed in missile attacks overnight in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region not far from the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, the local military said on Wednesday. “A tragic night…
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Ukraine risks repeating Chernobyl disaster
Moscow: Russia has asked the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to make Ukraine stop the “shelling” of Chernobyl, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. Moscow accused Ukrainian troops of firing artillery…
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Entrepreneurial diplomacy—Requirement of 21st Century—Part one
By Ishrat Aziz This is firs part of the two-part lecture that an astute and far sighted for Indian diplomat has given at a function organised by AMU Boys Association in the…
