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US : Former President Donald Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to declare that the election was corrupt in an attempt to help Republican members of Congress try to overturn the election result, according to notes of a December 2020 call Trump held with Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue. During the December 27, 2020, call, Trump pressured Rosen and Donoghue to falsely declare the election “illegal” and “corrupt” even after the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud. “Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,”…

Students of Al Noor International School (CBSE Curriculum) have achieved 100 percent success in their All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE). In the Science Stream Aaliya Hussain Bhat scored 95.4% and is the school topper, followed by Sarathy Ramanan Ramasamy with 95% and Noorul Ibtesam Idris and Muhammed Hisham, both scoring 94.6%. In the Commerce Stream, Zainab Mohamed Ahmed Ali Abdulla topped with 92%. The School Chairman Mr. Ali Hasan congratulated all the students, parents and teachers for their sincere efforts and wished the students success in their future endeavors. The School Director Dr. Muhammad Mashood applauded the excellent…

Boxer Lovlina Borgohain assured a medal for India, defeating Chinese Taipei’s Nien-Chin Chen to reach women’s welterweight semifinals. Deepika Kumari was knocked out after losing to Korea’s An San in the quarterfinals of the women’s individual archery. India women’s hockey team beat Ireland 1-0 in pool A match. Boxer Simranjit Kaur failed to reach the quarterfinal after losing her round of 16 match. Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat failed to reach the Women’s 25m Pistol final. India 3000m steeplechase athlete Avinash Sable set a new National Record but was unable to qualify to the next round. Catch all the live…

Tokyo : India’s Avinash Sable shattered his own 3000m steeplechase national record but failed to qualify for the final despite clocking a better time than the top three in another heat race of the Olympic Games.

Taiwan :  Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) chip supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) said on Friday that some of its production lines in southern Taiwan were hit by a contamination of gases used in the chipmaking process.

Bahrain :  The Higher Criminal Court issued its verdict today in the largest money laundering case in the history of the Kingdom of Bahrain, convicting Future Bank and six of its officials, the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks, fining them 19 million Bahraini Dinars, and confiscating laundering money, amounting to approximately 1.3 billion USD, while sentencing six convicted individuals to imprisonment. His Excellency Attorney General Dr. Ali bin Fadhel Al Buainain said that the Higher Criminal Court has convicted the Central Bank of Iran and a number of Iranian banks, in addition to Future Bank and six…

Jordan : Bahraini citizens’ inoculation against Covid 19 in Jordan comes in implementation of the royal directive of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to start vaccinating Bahraini citizens who live abroad and who haven’t been inoculated yet against Coronavirus (Covid 19 and in order to protect the health and safety of citizens, and support the national efforts led by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, to confront Coronavirus. In this context, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the sisterly Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, H.E. Ahmed bin Yousef…

Tokyo : Japan is set to expand the coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo to neighboring areas and the western city of Osaka on Friday in the wake of a record-breaking surge in infections while the capital hosts the Olympics, said AP. A government panel approved the plan putting Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba, as well as Osaka, under the state of emergency from Monday until Aug. 31. The measures already in place in Tokyo and the southern island of Okinawa will be extended until the end of August. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is scheduled to officially announce the measures later…

US : The United States is “deeply concerned with the increasingly harsh surveillance, harassment, and intimidation of U.S. and other foreign journalists” covering recent floods in China’s Henan province, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Thursday. Reuter

India: – India reported 44,230 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the most in three weeks, the latest evidence of a worrying trend of rising cases that has forced one state to lock down amid fears of another wave of infections. Reuters