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Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'
1 hour, 56 minutes ago

Syria's new leader says all weapons to come under 'state control'

Raw Story  

by Maher Al Mounes with Lisa Golden Two weeks after seizing power in a sweeping offensive, Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Sunday said weapons in the country, including those held by Kurdish-led forces, would come under state control. Sharaa spoke alongside Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, after earlier meeting with Lebanese Druze leaders and vowing to end "negative interference" …

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Bangladesh owes Tripura Rs 200 crore in unpaid electricity bills
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6 hours, 11 minutes ago

Bangladesh owes Tripura Rs 200 crore in unpaid electricity bills

Deccan Chronicle  

Agartala: Bangladesh owes Tripura Rs 200 crore in electricity dues but no decision has been taken on halting power supply to the neighbouring country yet, Chief Minister Manik Saha said on Monday. Tripura supplies 60-70 megawatts of power to the neighbouring country according to an agreement signed by the Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited through the NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam …

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Modi distributes 71,000 appointment letters, highlights youth-centric policies
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7 hours, 19 minutes ago

Modi distributes 71,000 appointment letters, highlights youth-centric policies

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday distributed over 71,000 appointment letters to newly recruited candidates through video conferencing as part of the Rozgar Mela initiative. Highlighting the government's commitment to empowering India’s youth, PM Modi stated, “Our top priority is to make full use of the potential and talent of India's youth. Over the past 1.5 years, our …

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Bangladesh runs up Rs 200 crore electricity bill, Tripura to take call on supply
13 hours, 38 minutes ago

Bangladesh runs up Rs 200 crore electricity bill, Tripura to take call on supply

India Today  

Bangladesh owes Tripura Rs 200 crore in electricity dues but no decision has been taken on halting power supply to the neighbouring country yet, Chief Minister Manik Saha said on Monday. Tripura supplies 60-70 megawatts of power to the neighbouring country according to an agreement signed by the Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited through the NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited …

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In Assad’s hometown, few shared in his family’s fortune. They hope they won’t share in his downfall
1 day, 8 hours ago

In Assad’s hometown, few shared in his family’s fortune. They hope they won’t share in his downfall

Associated Press  

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.” Nearly two weeks after the ouster of his son, Bashar Assad, people streamed in to take photos next to the burned-out hollow where the elder Assad’s grave used …

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Column: Trump’s promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy
1 day, 13 hours ago

Column: Trump’s promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy

LA Times  

This country has always had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented workers who keep America’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries humming. Can’t get more essential than that.” In the mid-1980s, when he managed cantaloupe fields, federal government pilots would fly small planes over the state’s cropland looking for large crews of workers, he recalled. The pilots would radio information about …

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Rebuilding Syria requires much more than bricks and mortar
1 day, 13 hours ago

Rebuilding Syria requires much more than bricks and mortar

Al Jazeera  

Rebuilding Syria after more than a decade of devastating conflict is no simple task. As the global community keeps a close eye on Syria’s new leadership to ensure a smooth transition, it must also send a clear and forceful message to Israel. The global community may hesitate to fully lift sanctions due to uncertainty about Syria’s new leadership. Syria’s new …

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Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump announces she won't be next Florida Senator
1 day, 14 hours ago

Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump announces she won't be next Florida Senator

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump, whom Trump made co-chair of the Republican National Committee, announced on Saturday she is no longer in consideration for the role of Senator in Florida. Trump team members openly floated the idea of Ron DeSantis appointing Lara Trump to replace Marco Rubio as a Senator in Florida. "After an incredible amount of thought, …

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Pavan K. Varma | Why India world’s ‘happiest country’ but must get rid of that status
1 day, 18 hours ago

Pavan K. Varma | Why India world’s ‘happiest country’ but must get rid of that status

Deccan Chronicle  

The legendary fourth king of Bhutan, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, ruled for 34 years, until he voluntarily abdicated in 2008 in favour of his eldest son, the current king. If power-cuts last for hours, at least there is electricity for the rest of the day; if monsoons cause misery, this is but temporary; if water is scarce, occasional tankers, …

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Cyprus can help rid Syria of chemical weapons and search for its missing, Cypriot top diplomat says
2 days, 3 hours ago

Cyprus can help rid Syria of chemical weapons and search for its missing, Cypriot top diplomat says

Associated Press  

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus stands ready to help eliminate Syria’s remaining chemical weapons stockpiles and to support a search for people whose fate remains unknown after more than a decade of war, the top Cypriot diplomat said Saturday. Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said Cyprus’ offer is grounded on its own past experience both with helping rid Syria of chemical weapons …

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Amit Shah Should Apologise For Remark On Ambedkar Else BSP Will Stage Protest: Mayawati
2 days, 4 hours ago

Amit Shah Should Apologise For Remark On Ambedkar Else BSP Will Stage Protest: Mayawati

ABP News  

Lucknow, Dec 21 Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Saturday hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah, saying that he should apologise for his statement on B R Ambedkar. In a series of posts on X in Hindi, Mayawati said, "Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, the author of the original book in the form of the super-humanistic and welfare Constitution …

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Year Ender 2024: From Ambani To Adani, The Richest People In The Country, As Per Forbes India
2 days, 7 hours ago

Year Ender 2024: From Ambani To Adani, The Richest People In The Country, As Per Forbes India

ABP News  

Before we bid goodbye to 2024 and welcome the New Year, let’s take a look at the top ten wealthiest individuals in the country. As per the Forbes India list of ‘Top 10 Richest People in India 2024’, the Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani is at the top of the index. Rank Name Net Worth Company 1) Mukesh Ambani $119.5 …

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Congress vs Amit Shah on BR Ambedkar: All is Fair in War and Politics?
2 days, 9 hours ago

Congress vs Amit Shah on BR Ambedkar: All is Fair in War and Politics?

The Quint  

In his recent speech at the Rajya Sabha during the Constitution debate, Home Minister Amit Shah made several noteworthy statements that warrant serious discussion. Shah also accused the Congress of opposing welfare measures for Other Backward Classes while pushing for reservations for Muslims by exceeding the 50% limit set by the Constitution. Shah stated, “I want to tell the people …

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Trump and the return of the National ‘Emergy’
2 days, 13 hours ago

Trump and the return of the National ‘Emergy’

Al Jazeera  

In October 2018, a “migrant caravan” bound for the United States set out on foot from Honduras. Then-president Donald Trump, never one to pass up an opportunity for overzealous xenophobic spectacle, took to Twitter to broadcast a “National Emergy”, warning that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the caravan. In preparation for the pedestrian assault on the …

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Trump has the country swamped in 'ludicrous dysfunction' before being sworn in: analyst
2 days, 19 hours ago

Trump has the country swamped in 'ludicrous dysfunction' before being sworn in: analyst

Raw Story  

In his column for the Washington Post, longtime political observer Dana Milbank marveled at Donald Trump's ability to gum up the works of the U.S. government more than a month before he is sworn in. As the analyst noted, the president-elect could have stayed on the sidelines as opposing members of the House hammered out a budget deal to make …

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BORIS JOHNSON: Hapless Starmer and Reeves are doing for Britain's economy what Harold Shipman did for gerontology. But at least young voters are learning about the Doom Loop of Socialism
2 days, 20 hours ago

BORIS JOHNSON: Hapless Starmer and Reeves are doing for Britain's economy what Harold Shipman did for gerontology. But at least young voters are learning about the Doom Loop of Socialism

Daily Mail  

I have been struggling all morning to find reasons to be cheerful. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are the very people who are meant to be promoting growth, but they are in fact destroying it, writes Boris Johnson These Labour goons have a vast majority. Many young people don't even remember Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, …

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Denzel Washington's British accent has fans all saying the same thing
3 days, 12 hours ago

Denzel Washington's British accent has fans all saying the same thing

Daily Mail  

Fans are all saying the same thing about an resurfaced clip of Denzel Washington doing an English accent in one of his early films. Fans are all saying the same thing about an resurfaced clip of Denzel Washington doing an English accent in the 1988 movie For Queen And Country Fans joked that his alleged English accent was tinged with …

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TikTok gets big boost from US Supreme Court
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3 days, 13 hours ago

TikTok gets big boost from US Supreme Court

China Daily  

The US Supreme Court has thrown a significant roadblock in the path of a new law that would ban the wildly popular TikTok app throughout the United States. By now, you may likely know the backstory about TikTok: Earlier this year, members of the US Congress authored and passed legislation that was quickly signed by US President Joe Biden, which …

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Dhaka 2.0: Sheikh Hasina fading history, city finds hope in new uncertainty
3 days, 13 hours ago

Dhaka 2.0: Sheikh Hasina fading history, city finds hope in new uncertainty

India Today  

As vehicles—cars, motorbikes and hoards of compressed natural gas-driven autorickshaws, colloquially known as ‘CNGs’—speed out of Dhaka International Airport, murals of the liberation war, meant to decorate the roads and remind one of the bloody but valiant birth of Bangladesh as a sovereign nation, welcome people. Many now feel Mujibur Rahman was not the sole hero of the liberation war, …

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Full text: Chinese President Xi Jinping's address at the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Mac
Top News
3 days, 13 hours ago

Full text: Chinese President Xi Jinping's address at the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Mac

China Daily  

MACAO -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday delivered an address at the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Macao Special Administrative Region. My Fellow Chinese, Dear Friends, Over the past 25 years since Macao's return to the motherland, with the strong support of the …

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Expanding high-level opening-up benefits China and world
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3 days, 13 hours ago

Expanding high-level opening-up benefits China and world

China Daily  

The National Immigration Administration announced on Tuesday that as of that day it would relax and optimize the transit visa-free policy, extending the stay period of foreigners with transit visa-free status from the original 72 hours or 144 hours to 240 hours. As the world's second-largest economy, China is committed to promoting economic globalization and international cooperation through unilateral opening-up, …

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Full text: Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at welcoming dinner hosted by Macao SAR government on eve of 25th anniversary of Macao's return to motherland
Top News
3 days, 13 hours ago

Full text: Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at welcoming dinner hosted by Macao SAR government on eve of 25th anniversary of Macao's return to motherland

China Daily  

MACAO -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday delivered a speech at a welcoming dinner hosted by the government of the Macao Special Administrative Region on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland. Speech at the Welcoming Dinner Hosted by the Government of The Macao Special Administrative Region December 19, 2024 Xi Jinping Chief Executive …

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Expanding high-level opening-up benefits China and world
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3 days, 13 hours ago

Expanding high-level opening-up benefits China and world

China Daily  

A traveler from Poland takes photos at the Yuyuan shopping center in Shanghai on Dec 4. As the world's second-largest economy, China is committed to promoting economic globalization and international cooperation through unilateral opening-up, which is also conducive to promoting its own high-quality development and the building of an open economy. Expanding unilateral opening-up is also China's consistent policy toward …

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Full text: Chinese President Xi Jinping's address at the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Mac
Top News
3 days, 13 hours ago

Full text: Chinese President Xi Jinping's address at the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Mac

China Daily  

MACAO -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday delivered an address at the meeting celebrating the 25th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland and the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of the Macao Special Administrative Region. My Fellow Chinese, Dear Friends, Over the past 25 years since Macao's return to the motherland, with the strong support of the …

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