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Wildfires rage across Europe as climate alarm sounded

Published On: July 21, 2022 06:35 AM NPT By: Reuters

ATHENS/LONDON, July 21: Emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain's hottest day that the fight against climate change needed to be stepped up.

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K-Pop star J-Hope to make music history at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival

Published On: July 20, 2022 05:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

K-Pop star J-Hope of the boy band sensation BTS will perform this month as the finale act at Chicago's annual Lollapalooza show, becoming the first South Korean artist to headline a major U.S. musical festival, organizers said on Tuesday.

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Wickremesinghe, a wily political survivor, elected Sri Lanka's president

Published On: July 20, 2022 04:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 20: Ranil Wickremesinghe, a lawyer who served as Sri Lanka's prime minister a record six times, has finally made it to the top job, securing the presidency after winning a parliamentary vote on Wednesday despite fierce public opposition to his candidacy.

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Brad Pitt battles assassins in action thriller 'Bullet Train'

Published On: July 20, 2022 12:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

Hollywood star Brad Pitt fights off assassins on a high speed train travelling across Japan in action thriller "Bullet Train", reuniting with his former stuntman turned director David Leitch.

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China warns of 'forceful measures' if U.S. House Speaker Pelosi visits Taiwan

Published On: July 20, 2022 06:30 AM NPT By: Reuters

BEIJING, July 20: China's government on Tuesday warned that it would take "forceful measures" if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, after the Financial Times said she would go to the Chinese-claimed island next month.

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Scientists find an exotic black hole deemed a 'needle in a haystack'

Published On: July 19, 2022 02:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

Astronomers have spotted in a galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way what they are calling a cosmic "needle in a haystack" - a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have been born without the explosion of a dying star.

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Sri Lanka says IMF talks near end after declaring state of emergency

Published On: July 18, 2022 08:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 18: Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday that the country had almost concluded negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a day after he declared a state of emergency in the island nation.

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Sri Lanka puts emergency in place ahead of parliament's vote for new president

Published On: July 18, 2022 12:22 PM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 18: Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe gazetted orders late on Sunday for a state of emergency in the crisis-ridden island nation, in an effort to head off unrest ahead of a vote in parliament later this week to elect a new president.

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U.S., Saudi Arabia agree on stopping Iran getting nuclear weapons -joint statement

Published On: July 16, 2022 07:40 AM NPT By: Reuters

July 16: The United states and Saudi Arabia agreed on the importance of stopping Iran from "acquiring a nuclear weapon", during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden, a joint statement carried by the Saudi state news agency (SPA) said.

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Russia sanctions 384 Japanese lawmakers

Published On: July 16, 2022 07:03 AM NPT By: Reuters

MOSCOW, July 16: Russia on Friday imposed sanctions against 384 members of Japan's parliament, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

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Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa ousted, search begins for next leader

Published On: July 15, 2022 07:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 15: Sri Lanka's parliament accepted the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday after he fled the country, paving the way for lawmakers to start repairing the island's shattered politics and resume efforts to ease its economic crisis.

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Breakthrough at Ukraine grain export talks as heavy shelling continues

Published On: July 14, 2022 07:34 AM NPT By: Reuters

ISTANBUL/UNITED NATIONS, New York, July 14: Ukraine, the United Nations and Turkey hailed progress at talks in Istanbul that aim to resume Black Sea grain exports blocked by Russia and ease the risk of starvation faced by millions, but an end to the war remained far off as heavy shelling continued.

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NASA draws back curtain on Webb space telescope's first full-color images

Published On: July 13, 2022 12:50 PM NPT By: Reuters

NASA on Tuesday drew back the curtain on billions of years of cosmic evolution with the inaugural batch of photos from the largest, most powerful observatory ever launched to space, saying the luminous imagery showed the telescope exceeds expectations.

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Chinese scientists develop robot fish that gobble up microplastics

Published On: July 12, 2022 05:04 PM NPT By: Reuters

Robot fish that "eat" microplastics may one day help to clean up the world's polluted oceans, says a team of Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China.

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BTS documentary series, concert coming to Disney streaming services

Published On: July 12, 2022 02:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) announced a deal on Monday that will bring a documentary series and concert featuring K-pop band BTS to the company's streaming services.

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Sri Lanka president's brother stopped from flying out as anger surges

Published On: July 12, 2022 11:48 AM NPT By: Reuters

COLOMBO, July 12: Sri Lankan immigration officials said on Tuesday they prevented the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country, as anger rises against the powerful family for a debilitating economic crisis.

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Amid Ukraine war, Russian parliament to hold extraordinary session

Published On: July 12, 2022 08:08 AM NPT By: Reuters

LONDON, July 12: The lower house of the Russian parliament will gather on July 15 for an extraordinary session, its council decided on Monday, just days after President Vladimir Putin warned that he had not even started to get serious in the war in Ukraine.

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Musk makes meme on Twitter legal threat after scrapping $44 billion deal

Published On: July 11, 2022 06:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

Elon Musk on Monday mocked Twitter Inc's (TWTR.N) threat to sue him following his move to abandon the $44 billion takeover deal, tweeting the social media firm would need to disclose more information on bots and spam accounts.

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NASA to showcase Webb space telescope's first full-color image

Published On: July 11, 2022 01:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-color images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe.

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Lebanon's music festivals make modest comeback after crisis

Published On: July 11, 2022 11:30 AM NPT By: Reuters

Lebanon's international music festivals kicked off at the weekend with a performance in the Roman ruins of Baalbek, the first performance there since the country's economic crisis.

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