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PORTO ALEGRE: Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil’s southernmost state on Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas that had previously been untouched in Rio Grande do Sul’s capital city of Porto Alegre.Record flooding over the past month has killed 163 people and displaced around 600,000 more. Another 64 people are still
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NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, arrived in Belarus for a two-day visit. He was received by his Belgian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko assured Putin that they would discuss “security issues at the forefront, and tomorrow we will discuss economic issues together with our colleagues from the governments.”Earlier, Putin traveled to China earlier
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BERLIN: German police cleared about 150 pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a Berlin university faculty on Thursday, ending one of a wave of student-led protests across Europe over Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas. Activists had occupied several rooms of the Humboldt University‘s Institute for Social Sciences in downtown Berlin on Wednesday. Student Coalition Berlin, the
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NEW DELHI: The Louisiana House, with a majority of 64 to 29, has passed a bill that would classify the drugs used in medication abortions as controlled substances, making it illegal to possess them without a prescription, reports CBS News.Louisiana will be the first state to categorize misoprostol and mifepristone, used in early-stage pregnancy termination,
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NEW YORK: New York City stepped up its efforts to push migrants out of its overwhelmed shelters Wednesday as it began enforcing a new rule that limits some adult asylum-seekers to a month in the system before they have to find a bed on their own. Migrants without young children must now move out of
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NEW DELHI: Germany is actively contemplating the reintroduction of compulsory military service for all 18-year-olds as it faces increasing geopolitical pressures from an assertive Russia, detailed in leaked military documents. These discussions, reportedly reaching final stages within the German defense ministry, come at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin has ramped up his militaristic
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BANGKOK: Thailand‘s billionaire former PM Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on Sunday after six months in detention, his first day of freedom in his homeland 15 years after fleeing in the wake of his overthrow in a military coup.Thailand’s best-known and most polarising premier, the influential Thaksin has loomed large over politics during the
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TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) has said that it has detected 10 Chinese military aircraft and five naval ships around Taiwan in the past 24 hours, till 6 am (local time) on Saturday, Taiwan News reported. Taiwan’s MND did not reveal whether the Chinese military aircraft crossed into China’s air defence identification zone
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Moscow: Russia‘s former leader Dmitry Medvedev suggested Saturday that Moscow may annex more regions of Ukraine, as he marked one year since the Kremlin claimed four Ukrainian territories as its own. Moscow held elections in the four regions this month, but does not fully control any of them and is currently battling a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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Early on September 19, Azerbaijan‘s president set in motion a lightning-fast military plan months in the making that would redraw the geopolitical map and avenge an ignominious defeat suffered by his father some 30 years before.In power for two decades and with one successful war already under his belt, President Ilham Aliyev had often spoken
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