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China downgrades ties with Lithuania after row over Taiwan

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  • 2021-11-21 --

Beijing: Furious over Lithuania for permitting Taiwan to open a representative office, China on Sunday downgraded diplomatic ties with it to the level of charge d’affaires, a move that could Read more...

Biden to have colonoscopy, transfer power to Harris

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  • 2021-11-20 --

Joe Biden hosted Canadian and Mexican leaders on Thursday for their first North American summit in five years in a bid to revitalise regional cooperation that was shadowed by tensions over Bid Read more...

US allows only 100 Afghan refugees

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  • 2021-11-20 --

Lowell: More than 28,000 Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the US for humanitarian reasons since shortly before the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan and sparked a chaotic US withdr Read more...

Real estate sheds DeMo blues, rides high on demand

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  • 2021-11-20 --

Post-demonetisation, Indian housing sales have outstripped new supply, says a research study

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Post-demonetisation, Indian housing sales have outstripped new Read more...

India, China ties strained: Jaishankar

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  • 2021-11-20 --

Singapore: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Friday that India and China are going through a “particularly bad patch” in their ties because Beijing has taken a set of ac Read more...

‘Theft of shrouds’: They just want to bury their dead

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  • 2021-11-20 --

By Aakash Hassan

As the sun was slipping behind the snow-peaked Himalayan mountains on Monday, a contingent of Indian army and counterinsurgent police laid a cordon around a two-story bu Read more...

Seoul scrambles jets as warplanes enter zone

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  • 2021-11-20 --

Chinese and Russian warplanes have entered South Korea’s air defence identification zones in recent years

Seoul: South Korea said Friday it scrambled fighter jets to re Read more...

Black pastors’ rally outside Arbery’s trial

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  • 2021-11-20 --

Brunswick: Hundreds of pastors both rallied and prayed at the Georgia courthouse where three white men are on trial in the killing of Ahmed Arbery, gathering in response to a defense lawyer&rsquo Read more...

4th wave: Austria enters lockdown

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  • 2021-11-20 --

Vienna: Austria will go into a national lockdown to contain a fourth wave of coronavirus cases, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Friday, as new Covid -19 infections hit a record high ami Read more...

Love for farmer or eye on polls?

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  • 2021-11-20 --

By Ajay Jha | NT

New Delhi: The timing of Modi’s announcement on repealing the farm laws was aimed at appealing to the Sikh voters of Punjab and bolster prospects of his Bharatiya Read more...

J&K: Chorus for handing over body of 3rd victim grows louder

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  • 2021-11-20 --

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Srinagar: A day after J&K police, late on Thursday, quietly exhumed the bodies of two civilians killed in the controversial Srinagar encounter earlier this week and Read more...

The day of the imprisoned writer

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  • 2021-11-20 --

By Stefan Dege

Every year on November 15, London-based PEN International launches its Day of the Imprisoned Writer campaign, drawing attention to the fates of imprisoned or persecuted a Read more...