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Tehran, July 7 (IANS) A total of 833 people have been referred to hospitals and medical centres in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan over the past five days due to health problems caused by sandstorms, state media reported.Majid Mohebi, head of the province’s Disaster Mitigation and Management Organization, told the state media that 128 of those people had been hospitalised mostly for breathing problems, heart or eye conditions as a result of the sandstorms, reports Xinhua news agency.Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, the head of the Sistan and Baluchestan Red Crescent Society, said that more than 6,000 face masks…

Madrid, July 7 (IANS) Campaigning for Spain’s general election scheduled to be held on July 23 has kicked off, with incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Alberto Nunez Feijoo from the People’s Party being the major contenders.Asking for the “majority confidence” of the Spanish people, Sanchez, as candidate of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, launched his election bid here on Thursday, reports Xinhua news agency.He assured that his party would be the “first political force”, and vowed to help relieve the mortgage burden on the people.”We are going to win the elections on July 23, and on the 24th, Spain…

New York, July 7 (IANS) Indian-American Gurdeep Pall, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, who helped build and promote Windows, Skype and Bing, intends to retire from the company in September, a media report said.According to The Information, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed his departure via email, describing it as “a long-planned retirement”. Chandigarh-born Pall joined Microsoft in January 1990 as a software design engineer, and has since worked on many breakthrough products in his tenure, starting with LAN Manager Remote Access Service. In his 33-year-long tenure at Microsoft, Pall has worked with former CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and…

United Nations, July 7 (IANS) As world temperature records were broken on two consecutive days this week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that “climate change is out of control”.“If we persist in delaying key measures that are needed, I think we are moving into a catastrophic situation, as the last two records in temperature demonstrates,” the Guardian quoted Guterres as saying in referrence to the global temperature records that were broken on Monday and Tuesday.The average global air temperature was 17.18 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, according to data by the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), surpassing the record…

New York, July 7 (IANS) Some Indian immigrants to the US used to say that a reason for coming here was the reservations policy in university admissions and jobs in their homeland and they wanted their children to escape its clutches. But it followed them here in the form of affirmative action in universities and government programmes and threatened to spill over into technology and science jobs.The US Supreme Court’s ruling last week in cases involving Harvard and the Univerity of North Carolina that race-based affirmative action programmes violated the Constitution’s provisions on equality of all may give them a…

New York, July 7 (IANS) At least 18 people were injured following a collision between two buses in New York City, authorities said.According to officials, the accident occurred at around 7 p.m. on Thursday evening in downtown Manhattan and the buses were in full capacity at the time of the collision, reports the BBC.The collision occured between a city MTA bus and a tourist bus on a night-time tour operated by TopView Sightseeing.Addressing the media on Thursday night, Deputy Chief of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) Paul Hopper said that the TopView bus, which departs from near Times…

Amman, July 7 (IANS) Jordan and Oman signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) and executive programmes to boost cooperation and coordination in various areas.The deals, covering establishing industrial estates, educational cooperation, consumer protection, and youth program, were signed at the conclusion of the 11th Jordanian-Omani Joint Ministerial Committee meeting held in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement by Jordan’s Foreign Ministry.Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi and his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Hamad al-Busaidi affirmed the “deep-rooted, historic and strategic” relations between the two countries and their mutual desire to develop…

Prague, July 7 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the Czech capital and held talks with President Petr Pavel at Prague Castle.The two presidents on Thursday discussed the current situation in Ukraine, developments in Belarus, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Vilnius and the Czech Republic’s involvement in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Czech News Agency (CTK).Pavel said that the Czech government, as well as private companies and citizens, have contributed 45 billion crowns ($2.1 billion) to Ukraine.The Ukrainian President thanked Pavel for Czech assistance to Ukraine.Zelensky landed in the Czech capital…

San Francisco, July 7 (IANS) Alarmed at Instagram Threads’ steep rise, Elon Musk-run Twitter has threatened to sue Meta for allegedly using its trade secrets and poaching its former employees to build the new “copycat” platform that saw over 30 million users in just 24 hours. Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”, reports Semafor.”Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade…

New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) With Meta launching its Twitter competitor Threads on Instagram, online searches for the term ‘Threads’ exploded in the past 24 hours to up to a massive 3,233 per cent, including in the European Union (EU) where the app is currently not available, a report showed on Thursday.The online searches for the term ‘Thread App’ have also increased exponentially, up 4,900 per cent in the same period of time, according to data provided by search engine specialists at Digital Funnel.China, Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil and Japan are the countries currently searching for the app the most.“The app…