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Wildfires across Chile claim at least 13 lives
At least 13 people were reported dead as a result of the more than 150 wildfires burning across Chile, which ...Indian police arrest 1,800 in crackdown on child marriage
Authorities in India’s Assam state on Friday arrested more than 1,800 “husbands” and their relatives after launching a crackdown on child marriages in the ...Pakistan blocks Wikipedia over ‘blasphemous content’
Pakistan has blocked access to Wikipedia for failing to remove what authorities considered “blasphemous content”. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority had earlier in the ...Blinken delays trip to China after ‘surveillance balloon’ spotted over US
US : Secretary of State Antony Blinken will delay his trip to Beijing after the military spotted a suspected spy balloon drifting ...Pope arrives in volatile South Sudan for ‘pilgrimage of peace’
Juba : Tens of thousands of people sang, drummed and ululated as Pope Francis arrived in South Sudan on Friday ...U.S. House plans vote to end foreign air traveler COVID vaccine mandate
Washington : The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote next week on a bill that would end a requirement ...U.S. reports blowout job growth; unemployment rate lowest since 1969
Washington : U.S. job growth accelerated sharply in January while the unemployment rate hit more than a 53-1/2-year low of ...13 dead in Chile amid struggle to contain raging wildfires
Santiago : At least 13 people were reported dead as of Friday night as a result of the more than ...At least two dead in avalanche at Kashmir’s Gulmarg ski resort
Two people have died and several were trapped after a massive avalanche hit a popular skiing resort in Himalayan Kashmir on Wednesday. ...India’s top court to hear pleas against ban on BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
India’s top court has agreed to hear pleas challenging a government ban on a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ...