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UAE accepts Taliban diplomat as Afghan ambassador

By Charlotte Greenfield and Alexander Cornwell ISLAMABAD/DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates has accepted the credentials of a Taliban-appointed diplomat as the ambassador of Afghanistan, a UAE

Canadian government moves quickly to end national rail stoppage

By David Ljunggren and Promit Mukherjee OTTAWA (Reuters) -The Canadian government moved quickly on Thursday to end an unprecedented rail stoppage, announcing it would ask the country's industrial

Mexico’s planned judicial reform is ‘major risk’ to democracy, says US ambassador

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The proposed reform of Mexico's judiciary threatens Mexico's democracy as well as its vital trade relationship with the United States, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar

US FDA approves updated COVID shots ahead of fall and winter

By Mariam Sunny and Manas Mishra (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved updated COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna targeting a recent variant of the disease,

Mike Lynch, acquitted in US trial and found dead at sea, was British tech trailblazer

By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Mike Lynch, the tech tycoon who died when his luxury yacht sank off Sicily, spent more than a decade building Britain's biggest software company and almost as long

Robbers kill nine police in southern Pakistan, say police

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -Robbers armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine officers and wounding others, the police and

NASA says decision on Boeing Starliner crew’s path home coming Saturday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA on Thursday said it expects to announce on Saturday its decision on whether the two astronauts who rode Boeing's glitchy Starliner spacecraft to the International Space

EAM Jaishankar discusses Ukraine conflict, Indo-Pacific with Polish counterpart

Warsaw , August 23 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski and discussed the issues of the Ukraine conflict...

Shared Indo-Pacific vision has brought India-US closer, says US Dy Secretary of State Richard Verma

New Delhi , August 23 (ANI): The shared vision of India and the United States for the Indo-Pacific has brought the two countries together...

Ukraine says Russian drones kill two civilians in border area

KYIV (Reuters) - Russian drone attacks killed two civilians and wounded a third on Thursday in Ukraine's Sumy region, on the border with Russia, the regional administration said in a statement. Sumy

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Drop that cigarette. Smokers are twice as likely to develop skin cancer compared to non-smokers

A noticeable effect of smoking is premature aging. Studies indicate that the skin biopsy of a 40-year-old heavy smoker can resemble that of a 70-year-old non-smoker.

10 yrs ago, battery leasing failed to boost demand for EV cars in India. Now, it’s making a comeback

Under this model, battery is provided to EV owners on a subscription basis or lease. With more people open to buying EV cars, the lower upfront cost could likely drive wider acceptance.

Morocco signs pact with Tata for joint manufacture of WhAP Infantry Fighting Vehicle

The armoured platform is India's first amphibious infantry combat wheeled vehicle. Last year, the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces had procured 90 military trucks from the Tata Group.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?