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"Person who made allegations was in jail for several months..": Sharad Pawar defends Sule over alleged "bitcoin scam"

NCP chief Sharad Pawar refuted allegations of a "Bitcoin Scam" against his daughter and party leader Supriya Sule. Pawar...

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Donald Trump names ex-WWE executive Linda McMahon as Education Secretary

Donald Trump speaks at a press conference with Linda McMahon at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Marc...

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The food import approach to easing cost of living crisis

Resort by the Federal Government to import food under its interventionist policy to crash skyrocketing prices of food it...

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Khair Bypoll: Aligarh District Announces Traffic Diversions For By-Elections. Check Details

Khair ByPolls 2024: The Aligarh district administration is on high alert due to the by-election being held in the Khair ...

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US ‘taking steps’ to impose new visa restrictions on Hong Kong officials after 45 democracy figures jailed

The US has said it is taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on Hong Kong officials after 45 of the city’s most ...

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Record number of GPs in training but 'job not done'

Australia is facing a severe shortage of GPs. Though more medical students are opting to become local doctors, peak medi...

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Wageworker Jobs for Youth Continue to Fall in Q2: Data

SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added more than 254,000 wageworker jobs in the second quarter of this yea...

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Helping street children requires a holistic, evidence-based approach

The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised....

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Trump picks not about good governance

A wise man once said you can judge the quality of a leader by the quality of the people he hires. Well, by that standard...

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"BJP-NDA alliance will secure over 51 seats, form govt": Jharkhand BJP chief Babulal Marandi

Jharkhand BJP Chief Babulal Marandi expressed confidence that the BJP-NDA alliance will win over 51 seats in the Assembl...

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‘Democracy can wait, waist cannot’: Harsh Goenka criticises Mumbai's non-voting Gucci crowd

Maharashtra Assembly Elections: As Maharashtra votes for its 288-member legislative assembly, RPG Group Chairman Harsh G...

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Guardian ad Litem training offered

CHARLESTON -- The Cass Elias McCarter Guardian ad Litem Program, a division of the South Carolina Department of Children...

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Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: ‘Democracy can wait, but waist cannot,’ Billionaire slams elites who may not vote

Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: A Mumbai billionaire criticized elites for their indifference towards voting, highl...

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President Ruto Bids Farewell to Whitman (PHOTOS)

President William Ruto has bid farewell to Meg Whitman, the outgoing United States Ambassador to Kenya, following her re...

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DP Kindiki Challenges Public Officials to Meet the Demands of Kenya’s Vibrant Democracy

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has urged all public officials to work harder, smarter, faster, and more efficiently to...

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Biden Urges World Leaders to Keep Focus on Climate

'I urge us to keep the faith and keep going,' Biden told G20 leaders during the last day of the summit in Brazil....

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Court of Appeal Upholds Uhuru’s Victory Over Jubilee Rebel Faction

The Court of Appeal in Nairobi has dismissed a request to halt a ruling that confirmed retired President Uhuru Kenyatta ...

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Near North Korean Waters, South Korean Crab Fishermen Clash With Officials Over Net Disposal

INCHEON, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – On Yeonpyeong Island, a fishing community situated near the maritime border with No...

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Trump’s planning a war against illegal immigrants. Problem is, it was lost 70 years ago

Each wave of people arriving in America has been decried as unassimilable—only for them to establish themselves as age...

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Maharashtra election: Akshay Kumar, Rajkummar Rao among Bollywood celebrities to cast early votes | In pics

As Maharashtra elections kick off, Bollywood celebrities including Akshay Kumar and Rajkummar Rao take to the polls, emp...

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Austerity measures painful, but necessary

THE Treasury’s bold move to introduce austerity measures in the last quarter of this year is a commendable step toward...

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Trump Picks Linda McMahon As Secretary Of Education

The decision emerged after it became evident that McMahon would not be selected for the role of Commerce Secretary...

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Trump taps Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid, McMahon for Education, Lutnick for Commerce

She’s seen as a relative unknown in education circles, though she expressed support for charter schools and school cho...

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Rajnath Singh to hold bilateral talks with Chinese counterpart today, review of LAC on cards

In China, the defence minister is a largely ceremonial role and is the public face of military diplomacy with other coun...

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Trump 2.0 and the future of Bangladesh-US defence relations

The Bay of Bengal holds a great strategic value as about half of the world's container traffic passes through this regio...

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Election News: 800 crore gets recovered so far including Maharashtra, Jharkhand and by-elections

Like every election, in Maharashtra, Jharkhand elections and by-elections being held in 14 states, the Election Commissi...

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President-elect Trump has considered buying Greenland: Here's every proposal in American history

President-elect Trump has floated the idea the United States may purchase Greenland in his previous term, but he is far ...

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Jharkhand Assembly Elections: Over 1.2 Crore Voters To Decide Fate Of 528 Candidates

The second and final phase of voting for 38 out of 81 assembly constituencies in Jharkhand began at 7 AM on Wednesday, N...

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Sokoto State and Lukarawas’ emerging security challenge

Sokoto State, which already has its plate full due to the nefarious activities of the terrorists operating freely in 13 ...

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Trump picks business executive Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department

McMahon is a professional wrestling business magnate and co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team. She...

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Concerns over regional representation as Tinubu nominates 2 INEC commiossioners

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Senate to confirm two nominees for positions as National Commissioners of the ...

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Root out ragging in educational institutes

The victim, a first-year MBBS student, fell unconscious and died allegedly after being made to stand for hours during ra...

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Negotiating freedom, at midnight

If the web-series is indeed the new novel, then history as narrative non-fiction got seriously interesting for everyone...

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Modi catches up with several world leaders at G20 Summit

Issue of Indian economic offenders raised with British PM...

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Resolve port crisis now

Within a few short weeks, the situation at the Port of Port of Spain has moved from inconvenience to emergency and may s...

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Public officials deserve fair pay

The Salaries Review Commission (SRC) has proposed increases in the remuneration packages for senior public officials, in...

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Ondo poll: Ajayi rejects results, vows to take legal action

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last Saturday's governorship election in Ondo State, Agboola Ajay...

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Axis My India’s Pradeep Gupta to release exit poll results independently. ‘Shut shop and start...,’ say netizens

As Axis My India prepares to release its exit poll results for Jharkhand and Maharashtra, the pollster faces criticism f...

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Trump ignores transition rules. It’s a ‘hostile takeover,’ ally says.

Donald Trump’s transition team has begun what a close ally calls a hostile takeover of the federal government, ignorin...

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Mary Kenny: Irish lawmakers will watch carefully as doubts creep in on the UK’s assisted dying bill

People change their minds about politics, ideas and values. And it has been revealing to observe a gradual change of min...

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Ian O’Doherty: It’s easy to laugh at the UK over its policing of tweets until a knock comes to your door

When I was a child, we went to Romania. This was the late 1970s, and my father jumped at the chance of a trip to see Cea...

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Sinéad Ryan: Those quirky rules of air travel are not just flights of fancy

I have a flight tomorrow, a red-eye, up-in-the-middle-of-the-night one. But short, thankfully. Aside from the lack of sl...

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Saoirse Hanley: I waited tables for over a decade and a rude customer is not the king. Here’s six rules for staying on your server’s good side

It is one of my firmly-held beliefs that everybody should be required, by law, to spend some time serving tables, becaus...

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Deirdre Garvey: We must stand together to protect civilians in war zones

I recently found myself in a cosy hotel room in a city in western Ukraine. It was 2am, and I had finally drifted into a ...

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Letters: Kathy Donaghy is spot on about neglect of Donegal by the powers that be

I must admit my guilt. I once published an article in a US magazine entitled “Donegal: The Forgotten County”. In my ...

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Editorial: Peace looks a distant hope amid Russia and Ukraine escalations

Even well-intentioned attempts to hurry history tend to end messily. Anticipating the arrival of Donald Trump in the Whi...

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Arizona Republican lawmaker calls for reforms to the Department of Child Safety after worker assault

State Senator T.J. Shope says the majority Republican legislature may introduce a bill mandating DCS set aside money for...

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Trump Chooses Linda McMahon for Education Secretary

Trump said he believes that McMahon will use her leadership experience to ‘make America Number One in Education in the...

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Son of Norway’s crown princess, Marius Borg Hoiby arrested on suspicion of rape

The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess, Marius Borg Hoiby has been arrested on suspicion of rape, according to poli...

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Trump says he will nominate wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon to be education secretary

Trump says he will nominate wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon to be education secretary...

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Our View: There is a simple solution to ensure plug not pulled on state projects

Audit office spokesman Marios Petrides was on a television show last week talking about public tenders and insisting the...

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Billionaire Robert Miller has two Montreal homes seized ahead of sex abuse trial

The four women plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit have reason to fear that the 81-year-old founder of Future Electronics ma...

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Trudeau minister Randy Boissonnault accused of 'fraud' and 'pretendianism' as calls to resign grow

'A prime minister committed to true reconciliation would have removed Randy,' said former Liberal cabinet minister Jody-...

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'My heart sank': Toys, mittens sparked search for family found frozen near border, trial hears

Prosecutors say the family of four Indian migrants froze to death Jan. 19, 2022, after spending hours wandering in heavy...

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Judge tosses ‘vexatious’ Canadian Armed Forces vaccine mandate lawsuit over lack of ‘material facts’

More than 300 plaintiffs who were seeking $1.3M in damages each will now collectively pay the Canadian government $5K in...

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Hand recounts to be conducted for 2 Minnesota House races

On Tuesday, Sherburne County officials announced that a hand recount will be done in the race for Minnesota House Distri...

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Ukraine fired six U.S. long-range missiles, Russia says

Earlier on Tuesday, Ukraine reported that a third Russian strike in as many days on a residential area killed at least 1...