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Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall Tudor saga, dies at 70
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Hilary Mantel, author of 'Wolf Hall' Tudor saga, dies at 70

London, Sep 24: Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed "Wolf Hall" trilogy of historical novels, has died, her publisher said Friday. She was 70. Mantel died "suddenly yet peacefully" on Thursday surrounded by...
Roger Federer retires after teaming with Nadal in last match
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Roger Federer retires after teaming with Nadal in last match

London, Sep 24: This day, this match, had to come, of course, for Roger Federer, and for tennis, just as it inevitably must for every athlete in every sport. Federer bid adieu Friday night with one last contest before he heads into retirement at age 41 after a superlative career that spanned...
Man missing for 17 days after Sichuan earthquake found alive
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Man missing for 17 days after Sichuan earthquake found alive

Beijing, Sep 23: A man who was missing for 17 days after an earthquake in China's southwest Sichuan province has been found alive, according to local media reports. The 28-year-old hydropower station employee Gan Yu had stayed behind with his colleague Luo Yong after the magnitude-6.8 earthquake...
Guterres warns against continued global warming, 1.5-degrees limit on life support
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Guterres warns against continued global warming, 1.5-degrees limit 'on life...

United Nations, Sep 22: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that global warming continues and the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris accord -- to limit Earth's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels -- is "on life support". "The 1.5-degrees limit is on life...
Women burn headscarves as anti-hijab protests continue in Iran
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Women burn headscarves as anti-hijab protests continue in Iran

Sari (Iran), Sep 22: Women have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws, media reports said. Crowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a bonfire in Sari on Tuesday, the fifth successive day of unrest,...
Sri Lanka to seek Indian or Chinese credit line for solar panel imports: Energy Minister Wijesekara
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Sri Lanka to seek Indian or Chinese credit line for solar panel imports: Energy...

Colombo, Sep 20: Sri Lanka intends to seek an Indian or Chinese credit line for the purchase of solar panels as a solution to mitigate the high cost of electricity tariffs, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said on Tuesday amid calls by the influential Buddhist clergy to protest against...
India, UAE and France hold first trilateral ministerial meeting in US
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India, UAE and France hold first trilateral ministerial meeting in US

New York, Sep 20: India, the UAE and France have held their first trilateral ministerial meeting here on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly session and discussed a new and more contemporary way of doing diplomacy with a focus on "active exchange" of ideas between strategic partners and UNSC...
World leaders meet at UNGA under dark clouds, grasping for silver lining
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World leaders meet at UNGA under dark clouds, grasping for silver lining

United Nations, Sep 20 (IANS) World leaders begin their high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday under the dark clouds of global polarisation, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, food and energy crises, economic problems and natural disasters grasping for silver linings of hope."A...
Valery Polyakov, the man who took longest single trip to space, dies
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Valery Polyakov, the man who took longest single trip to space, dies

Moscow, Sep 19: Valery Polyakov, the Soviet cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russia's space agency announced Monday. Polyakov's record of 437 days in space began January 8, 1994, when he and two others blasted off on a two-day flight to the...
Biden claims
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Biden claims 'pandemic is over' as WHO advises vigilance

Washington, Sep 19: US President Joe Biden has claimed that the Covid-19 pandemic is over, as millions suffer from long Covid and several countries still bear the brunt of the global health crisis. On the CBS '60 Minutes' TV show on Sunday, Biden said: "The pandemic is over. We still have a...
Over 2,000 guests to join Queen Elizabeths funeral today
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Over 2,000 guests to join Queen Elizabeth's funeral today

London, Sep 19: More than 2,000 guests will gather in London's Westminster Abbey on Monday for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on September 8 at the age of 96. Before the service commences at 11 a.m. (about 4 p.m. IST), a bell will toll for 96 consecutive minutes, marking the...
Sri Lanka seeks details on medical students Zelensky claimed to rescue from Russian captivity
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Sri Lanka seeks details on medical students Zelensky claimed to rescue from...

Colombo, Sep 18: Sri Lanka has sought more information from the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian embassy in New Delhi on the news of the rescue of seven Sri Lankan students from Kupyansk Medical College in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine. Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry said that it has requested...
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