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Lagos: Thirty-one passengers were taken hostage after gunmen attacked a train station in south Nigeria's Edo state, a spokesperson for the state government said.A group of gunmen broke into the Igueben train station on Saturday evening, firing shots sporadically...

Brasilia:Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned the invasion of supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro into the country's Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court on Sunday.They would be punished "with the full force of law", Lula...

Beijing: Twenty leading engineers and scientists of the Chinese Academy of Engineering have died less in a month after the lifting of the COVID-19 restrictions, which is more than the average annual mortality among academics, Chinese media reportedThe Chinese...

Hyderabad: In India, every year more than 1 Lakh children are born with severe to profound hearing loss and most of them need cochlear implant surgery to improve their speech and language skills, according to KIMS hospitals here on...

Bengaluru: Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said that "making one person a God in democracy leads to dictatorship.""This needs to go away," he said addressing the Aikyata Samavesh, a large convention of SC/ST...

Baghdad: The Iraqi Ministry of Planning said that the poverty rate in the country was 25 per cent in 2022, the Iraqi official news agency reported."The high poverty rate is due to several reasons, including the repercussions of the...

Washington: The Governor of Wisconsin Tony Evers said in an interview that he will issue an executive order next week banning TikTok in state government issued electronic devices."I’ll be issuing an executive order early next week to ban that,"...

Kabul: UK Prince Harry has opened up in his upcoming autobiography "Spare" about killing 25 combatants during his two tours of military service in Afghanistan, the Sky News broadcaster reported, citing a copy."I could always tell exactly how many...

New Delhi: India's real GDP (gross domestic product) is expected to grow at 7% during 2022-23 as compared to 8.7% in the previous fiscal, according to the First Advance Estimate released by National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday."Real GDP...

Beirut: Lebanon's military court charged seven people over the attack in December that killed an Irish peacekeeper and wounded three others in southern Lebanon.The State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki on Thursday charged a detainee with...