30 dead, 90 injured in India’s Kumbh Mela stampede
PRAYAGRAJ, India: A pre-dawn stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people in India on Wednesday,
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Australia’s Steve Smith joins greats with 10,000 Test runs
GALLE, (Sri Lanka): Australia’s Steve Smith joined a select group of batsmen to reach 10,000 Test runs on Wednesday during
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Bird feathers and bloodstains found in Jeju jet engines: report
Bird feathers and bloodstains were found in both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed in December, according to
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India boosts domestic arms industry and looks West to pare back Russia reliance
India’s efforts to pare back a longstanding reliance on Russian military hardware is bearing fruit after the courting of new
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Troubled European carmakers to talk fines and EVs with EU
Europe’s biggest carmakers will converge on Brussels for talks this week as the EU seeks to chart a way forward
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Chinese lion dance troupe shrugs off patriarchal past
Flinging her male teammate into the air, performer Lin Xinmeng practises China’s world-famous lion dance with a troupe that is shrugging
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The four Israeli women hostages freed on Saturday
Four women soldiers, abducted by Palestinian militants on October 7, 2023 while doing their military service near the Gaza border,
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Ukraine folk artists harness music to fight Russian ‘assimilation’
A Ukrainian band is treating international audiences to their country’s traditional folk music, spiced up with world music and some
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Hundreds to wed as Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force
Hundreds of same-sex couples are set to tie the knot in Thailand on Thursday as it becomes by far the
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Musk seeks Trump pardon for ‘Bitcoin Jesus,’ charged with fraud
Elon Musk said Tuesday he was exploring a presidential pardon for “Bitcoin Jesus,” who was arrested last year on fraud
