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Tornado pummels Arkansas capital and nearby towns, injuring dozens

By Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A fierce tornado blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas, and adjacent towns on Friday, ripping away roofs and walls from many buildings, flipping over

Tornado pummels Arkansas capital, injuring 24 people

No deaths were reported from the twister, spawned by one of a number of thunderstorms sweeping a vast swath of the U.S. heartland as part of a much larger expanse of extreme spring weather.

Tornado pummels Arkansas capital as huge storm front moves east

By Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A fierce tornado blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday, ripping away roofs and walls from many buildings, uprooting trees and flipping over

UN to start taking deep-sea mining applications this July

(Reuters) - The International Seabed Authority will start accepting applications in July from companies that want to mine the ocean's floor, a decision that came after the U.N. body spent the past two

Tornado pummels Arkansas capital as sprawling spring storm moves east

By Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman CHICAGO (Reuters) - A fierce tornado blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday, ripping away roofs and walls from many buildings, uprooting trees, flipping

Tornado pummels Arkansas capital as sprawling spring storm move east

By Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman CHICAGO (Reuters) -A fierce tornado blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday, ripping away roofs and walls from many buildings, uprooting trees, flipping

Mass casualty event declared in Arkansas university after tornado – CBS affiliate

(Reuters) - The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences declared a mass casualty event after a "catastrophic" tornado hit Little Rock on Friday, a CBS affiliate reported, adding hundreds of people

Biden visits tornado-hit Mississippi town

By Steve Holland ROLLING FORK, Mississippi (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday consoled families of victims and toured scenes of devastation in a Mississippi town after storms last week

Florida aquarium to release orca after more than 50 years in captivity

(This March 30 story has been refiled to add dropped word 'live' in paragraph 9) By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) - A Florida aquarium has reached a deal with animal welfare advocates to release Lolita, a

Spring storm rolls across US midsection, threatening tornadoes, heavy snow

By Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman CHICAGO (Reuters) -A powerful spring storm system was sweeping across the United States on Friday, menacing the country's midsection with the threat of dangerous

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.