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“El Chapo’s” Sancho Panza Alex Alleges $100 mn. Bribe To Former Mexican President
Andy Murray Likely To Retire This Year
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Jamal Khashoggi's Murder: Saudi Waits For Evidences From Turkey
Riyadh: As the trial on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggihas began at the Riyadh Criminal Court, the Saudi public prosecution said they were waiting for the evidences with Turkey. Earlier,...
Kerala |
Sabarimala Agitation: UK, USA Issue Alert Warning For Citizens In Kerala
New Delhi: In the wake of recent agitation erupted post the entry of young women in Sabarimala temple, the UK and the USA have warned their citizens to be alert and cautious while travelling across Kerala...
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2018's World Affairs In 'Lokakazhchakal' -Special Programme
Globally, 2018 was an eventful year that witnessed lots of diplomatic moves, regime change, coup, conflicts, disasters, moments of repent, rehabilitation and anticipation. 'Lokakazhchakal' is a special...
Crime |
How Elite Chinese Hackers Stole Western Intellectual Property
US justice department has indicted two Chinese accused of hacking into the computer networks of companies and government agencies in Western countries. Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong are allegedly part of a...
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Discredited Award-Winning German Reporter Faces Embezzlement Charges
The award-winning German reporter Claas Relotius, accused by top news magazine Der Spiegel of faking stories, could now face embezzlement charges. The publication is filing a criminal complaint alleging...
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A re. 12 Crore Grant To Feminise European Modernity
Carme Font, a lecturer in English literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, has been awarded a re. 12 crore grant by the European Research Council to scour libraries, archives and private collections...
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A Well-Healed Banker Returns To His Hometown To Battle The Mafia
The son of a farming family, Gaspare Giacalone, arrived in London in 1996 and found work as a financial analyst. After stints with Deutsche Bank and the Royal Bank of Scotland he joined the European Bank...
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Indonesia Tsunami: Death Toll Crosses 400
The death toll from the fatal tsunami that struck the Indonesian coast on Saturday has climbed to 429, leaving many injured. The search and rescue operations are still underway.
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Tsunami, Volcano Warning Remains In Indonesia
Experts have warned that another tsunami could strike in Indonesia, along with volcanic eruptions. Thousands have been evacuated to safer zones. The death toll of the tsunami that hit the island two days...
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Celebrating Love, Peace On Christmas
The silent night turned holy when the world welcomed a Christmas of love and peace. Special services were held in Churches at midnight across the globe to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.Pope Francis,...
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How Social Media Abets The Rise Of Populists Worldwide
The domination of Facebook by Italy’s two populists, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio, is revealed in previously unseen data that shows how they exploited video and live broadcasts to circumvent mainstream...
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Australian Gag Order On Child Sexual Abuse Conviction Of Cardinal Fails
An Australian court’s gag order proved futile in the Information Age as it failed in an effort to keep news about the conviction of the 3rd high-ranking Vatican official from reaching readers. While some...
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India Announces Rs 140 Cr Assistance To Maldives
New Delhi: With Maldives reeling under mounting Chinese debt, India announced Rs 140 crore financial assistance to the island nation and signed four pacts with it after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
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UN Demands Credible Probe Into Khashoggi's Murder
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has demanded for a credible investigation into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While Turkish Foreign Ministry has clarified that they would expose all the...
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Concealed-Carry Gun Permit Group Spent Crores On Fb In US Mid-Terms
Among the biggest ten spenders on Facebook political advertisements during the recent American midterm campaigns is a relatively unknown entity: Concealed Online. Since May, that for-profit company launched...
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Billionaire Under-Age Sex Predator Protected By Trump’s Labour Secretary
A ‘Miami Herald’ expose gives sordid details about how President Trump’s labor secretary went to great lengths to help downplay billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes involving nearly 80 minors. According...
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DJ’s Twerk Request Sours Historic Women’s Ballon d’Or Presentation
Olympique Lyonnais and Norway forward Ada Hegerberg won the inaugural Ballon d’Or award for the best player in women’s football, but the moment was tarnished when DJ Martin Solveig asked her to ‘twerk’...
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Join Hands Against Economic Offenders: Modi
Buenos Aires: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the G20 summit has requested to the G20 countries not to provide protection for the economic offenders. The nation has also requested the cooperation...
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Seven Bodies Found In Jap Tourist Hotspot
Bodies of seven people, a possible murder-suicide, were retrieved from Gokasegawa river near the Takachiho-kyo gorge in Japan’s Miyazaki prefecture, a mountain village of 12,000 people and a popular tourist...
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'InSight Lander' Aims To Reveal Secrets Of Mars
A waist-high unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on Mars on Monday, after a nearly six-month journey. The $993 million spacecraft -- designed to listen for quakes and tremors as a way to unveil...
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And Now A Book On “Embedded Enemies” Undermining Trump
“Trump’s Enemies: How The Deep State Is Undermining The Presidency” by two unabashed admirers of Trump claims the presidency is being sabotaged by a network of “embedded enemies” throughout the federal...
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Book On Trumpian View On Women
“Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women,” by the journalist Nina Burleigh, traces how the comments about women continue a running theme that started early in U S president Donald Trump’s...
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Global Fertility Rate Has Almost Halved In 67 Years
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were facing a “baby bust”-...
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Femen In Topless Protest At Armistice Day Event
Topless female protesters with “Fake Peacemaker” scrawled across their chests ran at the motorcade carrying US President Trump along the Champs Elysees in Paris ahead of a ceremony to mark the end of World...
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US Mid Term Polls: Trump Needs To Soften His Stands
It is clear from the results of the mid term elections in the USA that President Trump might have to soften his stands. It is being said that the people have rejected the stands of Trump on Migration....
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Major Set-Back For Trump Mid-Term Elections
A major set-back for President Donald J Trump in the mid term elections. The Democrats made a great progress in the 435 member House Of Representatives. They have gained 25 seats from the Republic Party...
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Young women potent political force in 2018
In January 2017 women activists organised the Women’s March drawing more than 40 lakh people across the globe in solidarity against Trump’s presidency. It set off a wave of grassroots activism across the...
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Nadia Murad Makes Impassioned Plea For Minorities
In her first major public appearance since winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad called for the global community to support and seek justice for minorities. Delivering a keynote address at the Sharjah...
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Women Candidates Face Grave Risks In Afghan Election
Life-threatening risks have not deterred more than 2,500 candidates nationwide, including 417 women, to run for 250 seats in the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the Afghan parliament. Maryam Samaa, a...
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Halloween Proves That Heroine-Led Horror Can Be A Hit
‘Halloween’ collected re. 553.46 crore at the US box office breaking records for a slasher film in its opening weekend. It was also the 2nd-biggest opening ever for an R-rated horror film, behind last...
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Norwegian Who Foiled Nazi Atom Bomb Dream Dies
Norwegian resistance fighter Joachim Ronneberg, who sabotaged Nazi Germany’s World War II nuclear weapons ambitions has died aged 99. In 1943 he led a top-secret raid on a heavily-guarded plant in Norway’s...
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Books That Provide Insight Into Saudi Arabia
As Saudi Arabia is in the eye of a media storm, five books are essential reading to provide an insight into that country. Historian Madawi al-Rasheed’s “Salman’s Legacy: the Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi...
Kerala |
Attack At Sabarimala Traumatizing: Suhasini Raj
Kottayam: New York Times reporter Suhasini Raj said that the attack on her by a mob while she was trekking to Sabarimala took a toll on her mentally and physically. She was taken to Kochi from Kottayam...
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British Royal Family Gets Ready To Welcome Their New Family Member
The British Royal family is in waits to welcome a new family member. It was last day that the palace gave out the confirmation of Duchess Meghan's pregnancy. This baby would be the eighth great grandchild...
World |
Tarana Burke Reflects On #MeToo Going Viral
A year after the Me Too movement sparked a worldwide reckoning, activist Tarana Burke who created the campaign in 2007, celebrated the first anniversary of the day the campaign went viral. The 45-year-old...
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Alternative Nobel literature prize goes to Maryse Condé
Maryse Conde of Guadeloupe was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, created after the Swedish Academy postponed this year’s literary Nobel roiled by a rape scandal. The author of some 20 novels,...
Crime |
End Game Of Cards And Tattoos In Russian Prisons
‘Russian Criminal Tattoos and Playing Cards’ by tattoo iconography expert Arkady Bronnikov provides a hellish guide into the Russian prison underworld. The restriction on gambling is ignored as the respect...
World |
In Australian Town Of 11, All Are Suspect In A Murder
Paddy Moriarty, a laborer of Irish descent, downed eight beers in Pink Panther, the only bar-hotel in the wee, dusty town of Larrimah in the Northern Territory, about 500 km south of Darwin, and headed...
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Hurricane Michael Pummels Florida
Hurricane Michael, the fiercest storm to hit Florida in living memory and the 3rd-most powerful ever to strike the U.S. mainland, unleashed roof-shredding winds, towering surf and torrential rains. Michael,...
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Suspect Detained In Rape And Murder Of Bulgarian Journalist
The body of 30-year-old Viktoria Marinova, a Bulgarian journalist was found in a park in the Danube town of Ruse. She was raped and suffocated to death. Her mobile phone, car keys, glasses and some of...
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Dr Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win Nobel Peace Prize
Stockholm: Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, for their work in fighting sexual violence and conflicts around the world. Nobel committee...
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Rep. Senators Appalled By Trump Mocking Dr. Ford
At a rally in Mississippi, President Trump repeatedly ridiculed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both teenagers...
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NYT Accuses Trump Of Tax Fraud
US President Trump engaged in fraudulent schemes through which he and siblings helped their parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes, according to a New York Times investigation based on more than 100,000...
World |
Streisand Rips Trump
When Barbra Streisand started writing lyrics for her political “Don’t Lie to Me,” she aimed for “very subtle” references to President Trump. But she couldn’t help herself. It passionate lyrics include:...
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