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Toronto, July 20 (IANS) Canadian police have arrested 15 Indian-origin men and laid 73 charges against them in an alleged organised auto theft ring, while recovering stolen goods worth more than 9 million dollars.Dubbed Project Big Rig, a joint task force was formed in March this year to investigate a series of tractor trailer and cargo thefts in Peel and across the Greater Toronto Area, the Peels Regional Police said in a statement on Wednesday.The investigation led to the recovery of 28 containers of stolen cargo valued at $6.99 million. An additional 28 stolen tractors and trailers valued at $2.25…

Seoul, July 20 (IANS) South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will hold a trilateral summit with his US counterpart Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Camp David, near Washington, on August 18, sources said on Thursday.The three leaders are expected to discuss ways to strengthen deterrence against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats during the summit at the US presidential retreat in Maryland, reports Yonhap News Agency.The presidential office acknowledged in a notice to reporters that the summit will take place in the US “sometime in August”, but added the exact date and place will be announced…

Seoul, July 19 (IANS) An American soldier who recently crossed the inter-Korean border into North Korea had been in a prison workshop for 48 days after failing to pay a court fine for kicking and damaging a police patrol car in Seoul, legal sources said on Thursday.Pvt. Travis King, stationed in South Korea, willfully crossed the inter-Korean border into North Korea without authorisation during a tour to the Joint Security Area on Tuesday and is believed to be in North Korea’s custody, according to the UN Command and American defence authorities.American media organisations reported that he had been in the…

Toronto, July 20 (IANS) Fifteen Indo-Canadian men, mostly Punjabis from Brampton, have been arrested for their involvement in a multimillion-dollar auto and cargo theft ring in and around Toronto.The gang would steal tractor trailers loaded with cargo and sell stolen products to unsuspecting people.Police have recovered 28 stolen tractor-trailers and seized 28 containers of stolen cargo from the 15 accused identified as Balkar Singh (42), Ajay (26), Manjeet Padda (40), Jagjeevan Singh (25), Amandeep Baidwan (41), Karamshand Singh (58), Jasvinder Atwal (45), Lakhvir Singh (45), Jagpal Singh (34), Upkaran Sandhu (31), Sukhvinder Singh (44), Kulvir Bains (39), Banishidar Lalsaran (39),…

Washington, July 20 (IANS) Former US President Donald Trump has lost a retrial bid in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming columnist E Jean Carroll.E. Jean Carroll, 79, had accused Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and then branding the incident a hoax in an October 2022 post on his Truth Social platform.The jury found Trump guilty of battering the columnist, but stopped short of finding the former President guilty of rape.Trump has been ordered to pay $5 million in damages.The former President’s attorneys…

New York, July 20 (IANS) An Indian-American couple has been charged with multiple offences, including confiscating a worker’s documents, forcing him to provide services for minimal pay and subjecting him to threats at their gas station and convenience store in Virginia.Returning a seven-count indictment on Wednesday, a federal jury in Richmond laid a total of six charges against Harmanpreet Singh, 30, and Kulbir Kaur, 42, of North Chesterfield region.The charges include, conspiracy to commit forced labor, forced labor, alien harboring for financial gain, document servitude, conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud, and fraudulent transfers in completion of bankruptcy. According to the…

Moscow, July 20 (IANS) A video doing the rounds on social media has shown Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus, marking his first appearance in public since the group’s failed mutiny in Russia last month.“Welcome guys! I am happy to greet you all. Welcome to the Belarusian land! We fought with dignity! We have done a lot for Russia,” a man resembling and sounding like Prigozhin says in the video, which was posted on pro-Wagner Telegram channels on Wednesday and then shared on his account, CNN reported.CNN geolocated the video to a previously disused military base in Asipovichy, some 80…

Auckland, July 20 (IANS) At least two people were killed on Thursday in a shooting incident in Auckland just hours before the Fifa Women’s World Cup is slated to begin in the New Zealand city.According to authorities, six other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident occurred at 7.22 a.m. on a construction site in the central business district, reports the BBC.The police have said that they received information of a person discharging a firearm inside the construction site, and the gunman moved through the building and continued to fire.The man then…

London, July 20 (IANS) Moksha Roy, a seven-year-old Indian-origin girl, has been awarded the British Prime Minister’s Points of Light award for volunteering for several sustainability initiatives, including raising funds for children, since the age of three.Moksha Roy, who received the award from Deputy British Prime Minister Oliver Dowden last week, started her journey by volunteering for a UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative against microplastic pollution. The initiative was supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the UN task force, earning Moksha the distinction of being the world’s youngest sustainability advocate at the age of three. “I am very…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Pharma giants Pfizer, Gilead Sciences, and GSK are expected to collectively generate 62 per cent of total infectious disease drug sales between 2023 and 2029, according to a report on Wednesday. The report by GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, showed that the infectious diseases market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.7 per cent between 2023 and 2029 to reach an impressive $150 billion in annual sales in 2029. Despite a 63.8 per cent decline in forecast sales for Covid-19 drugs in 2023, infectious disease drug sales…