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Have agreed on way to solve India boundary issue: Nepal

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Speaking to a select audience at the Indian Council for World Affairs, Gyawali said he and foreign minister S Jaishankar took up the boundary issue. “However, there are issues that need to be sorted first, away from the public,” he added...

PIA passenger aircraft 'held back' at Kuala Lumpur airport over lease dispute

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A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 170 passengers on board was held back in Malaysia over a lease dispute case between the cash-strapped national flag carrier and an Irish company pending in a UK court...

Russia withdraws from Open Skies Treaty after US departure

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Russia said on Friday it will withdraw from an international treaty allowing observation flights over military facilities following the US exit from the pact. Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement that the US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty last year "significantly upended the balance of interests of signatory states."..

Iran tests ballistic missiles, drones in military exercise, state TV says

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Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired "abundant" surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and tested locally manufactured new drones in a military exercise on Friday, state television reported...

PIA plane 'held back' by Malaysian authorities over UK court case

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The Boeing 777 aircraft was seized after a court order, an airline spokesman said, and alternative arrangements were being made for passengers due to fly back to Pakistan...

Dutch government quits over child benefits scandal

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Trump to leave Washington on morning of Biden's inauguration

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On guns, abortion and voting rights, Trump leaves lasting mark on US judiciary

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Explained: China's new Covid-19 outbreaks

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North Korea parades new submarine-launched missile

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Pictures showed at least four of the missiles with black-and-white cones being driven past flag-waving crowds. North Korea is under multiple sets of international sanctions over its banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes...

US blacklists China's CNOOC, S&P deletes from stock indices

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The US Commerce Department on Thursday added China's state oil giant CNOOC to its blacklist over what it called "belligerent" actions in the disputed South China Sea...

Japan's new virus emergency met with public indifference

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'Trump considering lawyer who spoke for impeachment defence'

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President Donald Trump may hire a law professor who spoke at his rally before the riot at the U.S. Capitol to help defend him in an impeachment trial over a charge that he incited the violence, according to two people familiar with the matter. John Eastman, who joined Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on stage at the Jan. 6 rally, is being considered for a role on Trump's defense team, the people said...

President-elect Joe Biden taps former FDA chief Kessler to lead vaccine science

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President-elect Joe Biden has picked a former Food and Drug commissioner to lead vaccine science in his drive to put 100 million shots into the arms of Americans in his administration's first 100 days and stem the Covid-19 pandemic. Kessler will work out of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, assuming responsibility for the scientific side of Operation Warp Speed, an effort launched under the Trump administration to rapidly develop vaccines and treatments...

China defends Tiananmen Square crackdown as 'fully correct'

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China on Thursday put up its customary defence of the ruling Communist Party's massive crackdown on students' protests in Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square in 1989 in which hundreds were killed as "fully correct" and said the socialist political model it pursued is the "right choice"...

Google celebrates the illustrious legacy of Basketball inventor James Naismith with a doodle

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UK MPs call for Britain to ‘use its influence’ for human rights in Kashmir

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Trump slump: Impeached second time, US President set to go on trial for insurrection

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Nancy Pelosi wants fines for bypassing House security

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India deplores ‘false assertions' in UK Parliament Kashmir debate

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Trump is impeached for second time. Can he be barred from becoming President again?

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Some US lawmakers have said President Donald Trump should be disqualified from holding political office again following his impeachment on Wednesday for inciting a mob that stormed the Capitol as lawmakers were certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory...

Twitter CEO: Banning Trump was right decision but sets dangerous precedent

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"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation," Twitter chief ecxecutive Jack Dorsey said. "They divide us. They limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning. And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation."..

Snapchat permanently bans Donald Trump from site

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Image-centric social network Snapchat on Wednesday said it has permanently banned US President Donald Trump from the platform, as voices are raised against keeping him off the internet stage. The account is being permanently terminated "in the interest of public safety, and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence, which are clear violations of our guidelines," Snapchat said...

McConnell open to convicting Trump in impeachment trial

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointedly did not rule out Wednesday that he might eventually vote to convict the now twice-impeached President Donald Trump, but he also blocked a quick Senate impeachment trial...

Second year of Covid could tougher than the first: WHO

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"We are going into a second year of this, it could even be tougher given the transmission dynamics and some of the issues that we are seeing," Mike Ryan, the WHO's top emergencies official, said during an event on social media...

House, with some GOP support, impeaches Donald Trump for ‘Incitement of Insurrection’

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The House on Wednesday impeached President Donald Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, as 10 members of the president’s party joined Democrats to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors for an unprecedented second time...

Prachanda accuses PM Oli of dissolving Nepal Parliament at India's direction

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President-elect Joe Biden picks Samantha Power, former UN envoy, for US aid post

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President-elect Joe Biden has selected Samantha Power , the US ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, to run the US Agency for International Development. That's the agency that oversees US foreign humanitarian and development aid. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” about the US foreign policy response to genocide...

Malawi police arrest 'prophet' who fled from South Africa

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Shepherd Bushiri, a self-proclaimed prophet known for "miracles" and an opulent lifestyle, skipped to Malawi last week in breach of strict bail conditions imposed by a South African court...

North Korea fires 5 short-range projectiles into sea

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North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea on Monday, Seoul officials said, in a continuation of weapon launches it has carried out in an apparent response to ongoing South Korea-US military drills it sees as a provocation...

Ex-strongman Rajapaksa's son arrested in Lanka

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Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's son was arrested on Saturday along with four other people over money laundering allegations...

5 killed in factory fire in Bangladesh

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At least five persons were killed and 10 others injured after a fire broke out at a chemical factory near the Bangladeshi capital, officials said on Sunday...

Israelis hold dawn protest over Netanyahu's corruption trial

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Police said at least seven demonstrators were arrested for disorderly conduct. The demonstration was organized by Crime Minister, one of several groups that have sprung up in recent months calling for Netanyahu to resign over the trial and his government's handling of the coronavirus...

US Congress united after 9/11, but 1/6 has deepened the divide

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UK-based Hindu groups call upon Prime Minister Boris Johnson to act against persecution of Hindus in Pakistan

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Hindu community groups based in the United Kingdom on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Boris Jhonson seeking urgent action against "rampant persecution of Hindus in Pakistan." Hindu Forum of Britain in its letter sought the UK government to demand urgent action from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to stop Hindu atrocities and asked UK to set a governmental inquiry ...

How Donald Trump's 2nd impeachment will unfold

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The House is expected to impeach President Donald Trump for his encouragement of supporters who stormed the US Capitol, a vote that would make him the first American president to be impeached twice...

US agency issues final wage rules for H-1Bs and green card holders, higher wages to apply in a phased manner

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Kim Jong UN pledges to strengthen nuclear arsenal

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Kim is looking to grab the attention of the incoming Biden administration, analysts say, with his country more isolated than ever after closing its borders to protect itself against the coronavirus pandemic. A nuclear summit between Kim and outgoing US President Donald Trump in Hanoi in February 2019 broke down over sanctions relief and what Pyongyang would be willing to give up in return...

Top US generals condemn Capitol attack in message to troops

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"The violent riot... was as direct assault on the US Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process," said a memorandum signed by all eight members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by the chairman, General Mark Milley...

New York could run out of vaccine stock by next week's end: mayor

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New York City could run out of its Covid-19 vaccine stock "by the end of next week," Mayor Bill de Blasio told journalists Tuesday, calling on the federal government and laboratories to prevent a dearth of doses...

Welcome to Brexit - now hand us your sandwich

3 days ago

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Britons arriving in the Netherlands since the start of the year have found that leaving the European Union might have cost them more than they realised, including their lunch. "Do you have meat on all the bread?", a Dutch customs officer asks a man who has just arrived in the port of Hook of Holland, as he holds up his foil-wrapped sandwich. "Yeah? OK, then we take them all, I'm sorry. Welcome to the Brexit, sir."..

Japan PM says may widen state of emergency beyond Tokyo

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he is considering extending a state of emergency further beyond Tokyo to include Aichi prefecture, home to Toyota Motor Corp, and other central and western areas to curb the spread of COVID-19...

Crew on crashed Indonesian passenger jet did not declare emergency

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Indonesia says located black box recorders from crashed plane

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Authorities have pinpointed the location of two black boxes from a crashed Indonesian jet and the divers will start looking for them now, they said Sunday, referring to cockpit voice and flight data recorders that could help explain why the aircraft went down with 62 people aboard. The announcement came as divers pulled body parts, wreckage from waters off Jakarta...

Bangladesh seeks Pakistan’s apology for 1971 genocide

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Even as Pakistan removed all visa restrictions for Bangladeshi citizens to visit Pakistan, Dhaka has sought an apology for the 1971 genocide for both countries to be able to move forward. This is important in a year when Bangladesh will be celebrating 50 years of its liberation...

New Covid-19 variant may enter Sri Lanka: Health expert

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US military blames Taliban for spate of Afghan assassinations

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The charge comes as the Afghan government and Taliban are due Tuesday to resume peace talks in Qatar, as both sides seek an end to the long-running conflict...

3 civilians wounded in car blast in Kabul

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Three civilians were wounded after a blast in a car in PD7 of Kabul city on Thursday morning. The explosion occurred in Chehel Sutoon area. No fatalities have been reported yet...

Bangladesh ships 1,804 Rohingya to isolated island

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AstraZeneca files bid for EU vaccine approval

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AstraZeneca and Oxford University have applied for authorisation for their coronavirus vaccine in the European Union with a decision possible by January 29, The European Medicines Agency said on Tuesday. The jab would be the third available for the 27-nation EU after the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna drugs, as the bloc struggles to speed up the rollout...

Trump protest outside Twitter HQ over ban flops

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Messages posted this weekend on popular far-right forum TheDonald.win had called on pro-Trump activists to assemble outside the tech giant's offices, which are largely deserted as staff work from home due to the pandemic...

For Pak opposition, ousting Imran Khan is 'jihad'

3 days ago

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The Malakand rally is among the several rallies organised by PDM to oust the corrupt government of Imran Khan. Earlier this month, a rally was held at Bahawalpur, including those in Peshawar, Karachi, Quetta, Multan and Lahore since October 16. It has demanded the resignation of Imran Khan by January 31 on corruption charges...

State Dept prematurely announces Trump departure

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"Donald J. Trump's term ended 2021-01-11 19:49:00," Trump's official biography page said briefly on Monday before being taken down, with internet users instead seeing a message that there was a technical error...

Trump Homeland Security chief abruptly quits at tense time

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China plans further HK crackdown after mass arrest

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Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy

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Twitter Inc said it has suspended more than 70,000 accounts since Friday that were primarily dedicated to sharing QAnon content after last week's violence in Washington when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol. QAnon backers have pushed conspiracies that include the baseless claim that Trump secretly is fighting a cabal of child-sex predators...

House Democrats introduce impeachment resolution against Trump

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Biden inauguration theme: 'America United'

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Inside a deadly siege: How a string of failures led to a dark day at the US Capitol

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Indonesia approves China's Sinovac vaccine as infections surge

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Indonesia gave Sinovac Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine its first emergency use approval outside China on Monday as the world's fourth most populous country launches nationwide inoculations to stem surging infections and deaths...

Outgoing US Capitol Police chief says his effort to get help was thwarted

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The outgoing chief of the US Capitol Police said House of Representatives and Senate security officials had thwarted his efforts to call in the National Guard, contradicting assertions from other officials who said the force had not asked for help. Steven Sund said his supervisors were reluctant to put the Guard on call even as intelligence suggested that the crowd was probably going to be much larger than earlier demonstrations...

Russia says 1.5 million vaccinated globally with Sputnik

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US army investigating officer who led group to Washington rally

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At least 25 domestic terrorism cases opened as result of assault on Capitol: Lawmaker

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At least 25 domestic terrorism cases have been opened as a result of Wednesday's deadly assault on the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, US Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told a Democratic lawmaker on Sunday. The Justice Department also said two more men were arrested in connection with the rioting on Wednesday...

Arnold Schwarzenegger compares US Capitol mob to Nazis

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Indonesia hopes to retrieve black boxes of crashed jet

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Indonesian divers on Monday will try to retrieve the data recorders of a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the sea two days ago with 62 people on board minutes after takeoff from Jakarta's main airport. The SJ 182 was headed on a domestic flight to Pontianak on Borneo island, about 740 km (460 miles) from Jakarta, on Saturday before it disappeared from radar screens four minutes after take-off and crashed into the Java sea...

Pelosi says House will impeach Trump, pushes VP to oust him

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president and Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority to force him out, warning that Trump is a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol...

How Aussie doctor's at-home Covid test won US approval

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Sean Parsons is the founder of Ellume, a medical tech firm based in a suburban industrial park, where rows of factory workers in sterile clothing swiftly assemble sleek grey kits roughly the size and shape of home pregnancy tests...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit social media: Report

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have quit social media after growing disillusioned by the "hate" they have found on sites like Facebook and Twitter, as per reports on Sunday. The couple were rejecting social media in both a personal and professional capacity as part of their new "progressive role" in the US. Sources said they are unlikely to restart utilising platforms personally...

Unlike President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence to attend Biden's inauguration: US media

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UK on course for Covid-19 vaccination target as shots reach 200,000 a day: Health minister

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Belgium coronavirus deaths top 20,000

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Belgium counts all deaths of people who have had a positive Covid-19 test among virus fatalities, giving it one of the world's highest death rates with 1,725 per 100,000 people, according to an AFP tally...

For Trump and the nation, a final test of accountability

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China suggests two possible solutions to resolve political crisis in Nepal: NCP leader

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Suicide bomber blows himself up in Afghanistan's Herat

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A suicide bomber blew himself up before reaching his target in the town of Torghundi in Afghanistan's Herat Province, local police said. Meanwhile, the Herat branch of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the suicide bomber had wanted to plant a mine in Torghundi, but ended up detonating the explosives and killing himself before reaching the intended target...

Iran will expel UN nuclear inspectors unless sanctions are lifted: Lawmaker

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Iran will expel United Nations nuclear watchdog inspectors, unless US sanctions are lifted by a Feb 21 deadline set by the hardline-dominated parliament, a lawmaker said on Saturday. Parliament passed a law in November that obliges the government to halt inspections of its nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal if sanctions are not eased...

Kyrgyzstan's Sadyr Japarov: From prison to presidency

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Trump loyalists arrested and charged with involvement in Capitol siege

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Pope Francis 'astonished' by mob attack on US Capitol

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Pope Francis has told an Italian broadcaster that he was "astonished" by the mob attack at the U.S. Capitol due to the democratic traditions of the United States...

Meet the desi who shapes policy at Twitter

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Donald Trump went to battle using Twitter and won Washington. Donald Trump is now going to war against Twitter after losing Washington. Two Indian-Americans are at the heart of the company that on Friday permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump's account citing the "risk of further incitement to violence," following the terrorist attack on the US Capitol...

Democrats plan lightning Trump impeachment, want him out now

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Pakistan's anti-terrorism court asks police to arrest JeM chief Masood Azhar by Jan 18

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UN designated global terrorist Masood Azhar, chief of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad, should be arrested by January 18 in connection with a terror financing case, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has asked the Punjab Police, a court official said on Saturday...

Indonesian plane loses contact after taking off from Jakarta: Reports

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A Sriwijaya Air plane with more than 50 people on board lost contact after taking off from Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province, local media reported. Reliable tracking service Flightradar24 said on its Twitter feed that Flight SJ182 "lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta"...

House will move to impeach Trump if he doesn't resign 'immediately', says Speaker Pelosi

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US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the House would move ahead with the process to impeach President Donald Trump for encouraging a mob that stormed the Capitol if he did not resign "immediately". Trump, who lost the November 3 elections, would be succeeded by Joe Biden on January 20 as mandated by the Constitution...

Will introduce immigration bill 'immediately' after taking office, says Biden

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US President-elect Joe Biden has said he will introduce an immigration legislation "immediately" after taking office, reversing the Trump administration's policies. Restricting immigration has been a focus of the Trump administration since its first days when it issued the travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries, and it has continued into Trump's final year in office as the White House uses the coronavirus pandemic as cover...

Saudi Arabia's king Salman gets coronavirus jab

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North Korea's Kim: US 'our biggest enemy'

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"No matter who is in power in the US, the true nature of the US and its fundamental policies towards North Korea never change," Kim said, vowing to expand ties with "anti-imperialist, independent forces."..

How Trump could be impeached again, but faster

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Germany reports record Covid-19 deaths, concerns about new variant grow

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Germany reported a record 1,188 daily Covid-19 deaths on Friday, only days after further tightening a national lockdown amid fears that a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus may put additional strain on struggling hospitals...

More Indian-Americans named in Biden-Harris administration

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WHO urges rich countries to stop jumping vaccine queue

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