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Stockholm: Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced here on Thursday.The prize has been awarded to novelist Gurnah "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday completed 20 years as the head of a government, including over 13 years as Gujarat chief minister, with top BJP leaders lauding his leadership and crediting him for ushering in good...

Islamabad: At least 15 people have died as a result of the 5.7 earthquake that hit northern Pakistan, the Agence France-Presse reported on Thursday, citing Pakistani officials.The tremor was registered at 22:01 GMT on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (8.7 miles)...

Washington: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday dismissed accusations that the social network prioritizes profit over its users' safety.Former Facebook product manager and whistleblower Frances Haugen told a congressional testimony on Tuesday that the social network was allegedly...

Bucharest: The Romanian coalition government led by Prime Minister Florin Citu collapsed on Tuesday, losing a censure motion initiated by main opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) and supported by all oppositions in the parliament plus the second largest party...

Brussels: The European Commission will begin negotiations with the United Kingdom on working out an agreement on Gibraltar, whose geography as British overseas territory and headland on Spain's south coast, prevented it from being included in the 2020 bilateral...

Washington: Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook who leaked internal documents proving corporate willingness to overlook hate speech and disinformation where profits are concerned, will testify before Congress on Tuesday, just several hours after Facebook experienced unprecedented...

Stockholm: The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming", and the other half to Giorgio Parisi...

Seoul: North Korea accused the UN Security Council on Sunday of infringing on its sovereignty, after it held a closed-door meeting to criticise the North’s recent missile tests.Jo Chol Su, the head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s International...

Kohima: Nagaland on Saturday reported 30 new COVID-19 cases, nine more than the previous day, with the tally increasing to 31,295, a health department bulletin said.Of the fresh cases, 20 were recorded in Dimapur, four in Mokokchung and three...