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Thousands block key motorway in Serbian capital during student-led protests

BELGRADE, Serbia — Thousands of people blocked traffic on Friday at a key motorway intersection in Serbia’s capital during student-led street protests over the collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people more than two months ago. Protesters have staged almost daily street demonstrations to demand accountability over the Nov. 1 crash at a railway station building in the …

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19 hours, 40 minutes ago

Constellation buying Calpine in $26.6 billion deal that would join two huge US power companies

Associated Press

Constellation is buying power natural gas and geothermal power provider Calpine for $16.4 billion, joining together two of the country’s biggest power companies. “By combining Constellation’s unmatched expertise in zero-emission nuclear energy with Calpine’s industry-leading, best-in-class, low-carbon natural gas and geothermal generation fleets, we will be able to offer the broadest array of energy products and services available in the …

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T.N. moves Bills on strict punishment for sexual offences against women, children

The Hindu

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday moved two Bills in the Legislative Assembly that sought to increase the quantum of punishment for sexual offences against women and children and to cover the offences committed against them through digital and electronic means. The State government firmly believed that enhancing the quantum of punishments for the offences committed against women …

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Billionaire Frank McCourt's Project Liberty proposes bid for TikTok's US assets

The Hindu

Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt's Project Liberty and its consortium of partners in The People's Bid said on Thursday they proposed to make a formal bid to ByteDance to buy TikTok's U.S. assets. The move comes ahead of a Jan. 19 deadline by which ByteDance has to sell the platform or face a ban under a …

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Formula E race: KTR grilled for over 7 hours by ACB

The Hindu

Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president and former minister K.T. Mr. Rama Rao arrived at the ACB headquarters in Banjara Hills around 9.30 a.m. in his white SUV, accompanied by his lawyer and personal assistant. Indicating that the accused person could be called again for questioning, the official said, “We have just begun the investigation.” Meanwhile Mr. Rama Rao said that …

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TGSRTC braces for passenger rush on Sankranti

The Hindu

Ahead of Sankranti, the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation has geared up to deal with the massive influx of bus passengers. In anticipation of lakhs of passengers, the corporation had already announced that it would press into service as many as 6,432 special buses to cater to the rush with people from Hyderabad going to their hometowns within Telangana and …

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Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind

The Hindu

The Biden administration succeeded Thursday in temporarily blocking accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from entering a guilty plea in a deal that would spare him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A three-judge appeals panel agreed to put on hold Mohammed’s guilty plea scheduled for Friday in a military commission courtroom at the U.S. naval …

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Guerrero, Blue Jays agree at $28.5M on day of arbitration swap, Valdez, Astros at $18 million

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays avoided a salary arbitration hearing when the first baseman agreed Thursday to a $28.5 million, one-year contract on the day players and teams were to exchange proposed figures. Guerrero, a son of Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero, won a $19.9 million salary last year in a record high for …

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Sanctions on Gazprombank Imperil Uzbek Copper Mine Expansion

The Diplomat

The U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to slap sanctions on Gazprombank in late November poses a potential major headache for Uzbekistan’s burgeoning mining industry, which until now has relied on the Russian lender to finance a $4.8 billion mine expansion set to nearly double the country’s copper production. Russia’s interest in Yoshlik dates back to 2021 when Gazprombank and VEB.RF, Russia’s …

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Will AUKUS Survive the Trump Administration?

The Diplomat

The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States has understandably led to a flurry of questions about what form his foreign policy will take. Flagship achievements of the Obama administration were some of the first targets of Trump’s attention – “Obamacare” and the U.S. commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement were two such examples. While …

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Amad Diallo signs new five-and-half-year deal at Manchester United

India Today

Manchester United winger Amad Diallo has committed his future to the club by signing a new five-and-a-half-year contract, extending his stay at Old Trafford until June 2030. This long-term deal comes during a breakout season for the 22-year-old Ivory Coast international, despite Manchester United's struggles in the current campaign. Diallo joined Manchester United in January 2021 from Atalanta and has …

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Vanangaan review: Director Bala's film on sexual violence has contrasting ideologies

India Today

In the 25 years of his career, director Bala has created quite a niche for himself. With 10 films to his credit, director Bala is back with Vanangaan, after the disastrous Varmaa, which is a remake of the Telugu superhit film, Arjun Reddy. On the surface, director Bala's Vanangaan might appear to be a film where the hero is portrayed …

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Missing You: Why Harlan Coben’s Netflix shows have become a global addiction.

Slate

We may be entering the late decadent stage of the Harlan Coben Netflix adaptation, to judge by Missing You, the most recent of the hit miniseries based on Coben novels to be released on the streaming platform. Missing You centers on Kat Donovan, a police detective obsessed with extracting the last remaining bit of information about her father’s murder from …

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Democrats Swing Further Right On Immigration After 2024 Election Losses

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday advanced a bill that would require the detention of undocumented immigrants who commit certain crimes, a priority for the new Republican majority following GOP victories in last year’s election. “If we can’t get at least seven out of 47 … then that’s a reason why we lost,” Sen. John Fetterman, who …

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1 day, 14 hours ago

Kentucky reaches $110 million deal with Kroger to settle its opioid lawsuit

Associated Press

Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state’s attorney general said Thursday. “This massive grocery chain that asked for our trust and our business allowed the fire of addiction to spread across the commonwealth, leaving pain and leaving so much brokenness in its …

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Baby girl rescued in Belagavi after parents sell it to a family in Goa

The Hindu

Members of the Belagavi District Child Protection Committee and Belagavi City Police have rescued a 20-month-old baby girl said to have been sold by her parents to a family from Goa. The baby was rescued as the girl was brought to Belagavi after her biological parents Rajendra Metri and his wife Shilpa Metri from Sangli, Maharashtra, sold their daughter to …

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1 day, 16 hours ago

Abolition Of The Post Of “Assistant Sessions Judge” By The “BNSS”, Whether Justifiable.

Live Law

Section 9 : Court of Session The State Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division. The High Court may also appoint Additional Sessions Judges and Assistant Sessions Judges to exercise jurisdiction in a Court of Session. Where the office of the Sessions Judge is vacant, the High Court may make arrangements for the disposal of any …

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Striking ski patrollers at the biggest US resort return to work claiming victory

Associated Press

Two hundred Utah ski patrollers returned to work Thursday after voting to accept a new labor contract and end a nearly two-week strike that closed many trails and caused long lift lines at the ones that remained open during a busy time of year at the country’s biggest ski resort. The Park City Ski Professional Ski Patrol Association claimed victory, …

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1 day, 18 hours ago

IWL 2024-25: With star-studded squad and a winning coach, East Bengal enters new season as firm favourite

The Hindu

With a star-studded squad and a coach privy to the league’s winning formula, East Bengal will be looking to go for the title as it hosts Kickstart FC in the 2024-25 Indian Women’s League opener on Friday. I want to replicate the same success with East Bengal,” Andrews, who has signed a two-year deal with the club, said on the …

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With 9/11 plea deals in flux, victims’ families sort through their feelings

Associated Press

NEW YORK — After his only child was killed on 9/11, Ken Fairben looked for justice in a far-off military courtroom on the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people, including paramedic Keith Fairben, at New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. Brett Eagleson, a son of Sept. 11 victim John …

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Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed battle to let his guilty plea go forward

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday n Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a plea agreement that would spare him and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty in al-Qaida’s notorious Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Defense lawyers in a filing late Wednesday …

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Meloni says Italy is exploring deals on telecoms security, but denies private talks with Musk

Associated Press

ROME — Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday that her government is in talks with several private companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, over the country’s telecoms security system, but denied having discussed the issue privately with Musk. It’s not my habit to use my public role to do favors to friends,” Meloni said, responding to reporters’ questions during her start-of-the-year …

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1 day, 22 hours ago

Independent streak helped build Notre Dame into football’s historic and now modern behemoth

Associated Press

DANIA BEACH, Fla. — It was some combination of religion, a grudge involving Knute Rockne and maybe the simple notion that some people just don’t like Notre Dame. “For people at Notre Dame, it’s a point of differentiation,” said John Heisler, the longtime sports information guru who has written 10 books on the Irish. “And it’s just not something that …

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Gaza rescuers say children among 12 killed in Israeli strikes

The Hindu

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces pounded the Palestinian territory on Thursday, killing at least 12 people including three girls, 15 months into the war. The latest strikes came as Qatar, Egypt, and the United States mediate negotiations in Doha between Israel and Hamas militants for a deal to end the fighting in Gaza and secure the release of …

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Thousands block key motorway in Serbian capital during student-led protests

Constellation buying Calpine in $26.6 billion deal that would join two huge US power companies

T.N. moves Bills on strict punishment for sexual offences against women, children

Billionaire Frank McCourt's Project Liberty proposes bid for TikTok's US assets

Formula E race: KTR grilled for over 7 hours by ACB

TGSRTC braces for passenger rush on Sankranti

Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind

Guerrero, Blue Jays agree at $28.5M on day of arbitration swap, Valdez, Astros at $18 million

Sanctions on Gazprombank Imperil Uzbek Copper Mine Expansion

Will AUKUS Survive the Trump Administration?

Amad Diallo signs new five-and-half-year deal at Manchester United

Vanangaan review: Director Bala's film on sexual violence has contrasting ideologies

Missing You: Why Harlan Coben’s Netflix shows have become a global addiction.

Democrats Swing Further Right On Immigration After 2024 Election Losses

Kentucky reaches $110 million deal with Kroger to settle its opioid lawsuit

Baby girl rescued in Belagavi after parents sell it to a family in Goa

Abolition Of The Post Of “Assistant Sessions Judge” By The “BNSS”, Whether Justifiable.

Striking ski patrollers at the biggest US resort return to work claiming victory

IWL 2024-25: With star-studded squad and a winning coach, East Bengal enters new season as firm favourite

With 9/11 plea deals in flux, victims’ families sort through their feelings

Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed battle to let his guilty plea go forward

Meloni says Italy is exploring deals on telecoms security, but denies private talks with Musk

Independent streak helped build Notre Dame into football’s historic and now modern behemoth

Gaza rescuers say children among 12 killed in Israeli strikes