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National Guard troops were deployed in 15 US states and Washington, DC as darkness fell in major cities still reeling from five nights of violence and destruction that began with peaceful protests over the death of a black man, George Floyd, in police custody. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dxUoYc

In the picture, the 70-year-old three-time premier is seen sitting at a roadside cafe with his granddaughters.He sported a blue shalwar kameez and a cap and apparently looked in better health. Some ministers got skeptical about the serious nature of his health, saying Sharif is roaming on London streets and he even did not bother to wear mask in this Covid-19 testing time. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gHTOcE

Local leaders appealed to citizens to give constructive outlet to their rage over the death of an unarmed black man, while night-time curfews were imposed in cities such as Washington, Los Angeles, Houston and Minneapolis, which has been the epicenter of unrest. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gJ934T

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The new law under which China can establish the presence of its security forces in Hong Kong for the first-time evoked strong protests from thousands of local people. The protests were expected to be intensified in the coming weeks. China says the new law is aimed at throttling secession, subversion, terrorism, foreign interference or activities that threaten national security. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dndX5u

"Connected by the Indian Ocean, united by the Indian Samosa! Looks delicious, PM @ScottMorrisonMP! Once we achieve a decisive victory against COVID-19, we will enjoy the Samosas together. Looking forward to our video meet on the 4th," the Prime Minister said in a tweet. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eBCdRS

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Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, reopened on Sunday after being closed for over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36LW5ih

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US President Donald Trump wants to reformat G7, the group of seven advanced economies in the world, to make it a G10 or G11 that would include India, Australia, South Korea, and Russia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZUkQrc

Curfews were imposed in major US cities Saturday as clashes over police brutality escalated across America with demonstrators ignoring warnings from President Trump that his govt would stop the violent protests "cold." Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta were among two dozen cities ordering people to stay indoors overnight as more states called in National Guard soldiers to help control the civil unrest from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ckAw9Q

A roadside bomb killed a television journalist in Kabul on Saturday, soon after a top Afghan official appointed to lead peace talks with the Taliban said his team was ready for the long-delayed dialogue. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2BkFVRz

On Friday morning, as dawn broke through the smoke hanging over Minneapolis, the Gandhi Mahal Restaurant was severely damaged by fire. Hafsa Islam, whose father owns the Bangladeshi Indian restaurant with members of his family, woke at 6 am to hear the news. “At first, I was angry,” said Islam, 18. “This is my family’s main source of income.” from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ezVl2E

The European Union on Saturday urged US President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to cut American funding for the World Health Organisation amid global criticism of the move, as spiking infection rates in India and elsewhere served as a reminder the global pandemic is far from contained. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Mh3QTO

Pakistan's Railways Minister Shiekh Rashid on Saturday claimed that the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif was against conducting the nuclear tests in 1998 in response to India's tests. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36J9XKd

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As Minneapolis burns over the police killing of George Floyd and shock and disappointment in Africa grow, some US embassies on the continent have taken the unusual step of issuing critical statements, saying no one is above the law. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XIilFM

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The white Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck as he begged for air was arrested on Friday and charged with murder, and crowds broke overnight curfews imposed to try to stem violent protests over police killings of African Americans that have spread to cities across the US. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XgyVxy

The Shandong's commissioning last year by Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored the country's rise as a regional naval power at a time of tensions with the US and others over trade, Taiwan and the South China Sea. It is the second Chinese aircraft carrier to enter service after the Liaoning, which was originally purchased as a hulk from Ukraine and entirely refurbished. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gxJSlQ

In his proclamation, announced on Friday, POTUS stated that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is engaged in a wide‑ranging and heavily resourced campaign to acquire sensitive US technologies and intellectual property, in part to bolster the modernization and capability of its military. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eyaHV6

Trump's announcement came amidst escalating confrontation between the US and China over trade, the origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Beijing's security crackdown in Hong Kong and the communist giant's aggressive military moves in the disputed South China Sea. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36G0Gme

The epicenter of the South American coronavirus outbreak, Brazil saw 1,124 deaths in 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said. It also had a record number of new cases -- 26,928 in one day -- bringing the total number of infections to 465,166. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3euQBuY

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an in-person summit of G7 leaders that US President Donald Trump has suggested he will host despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the Politico website quoted her spokesman as saying Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xe2xLO

The United States and Britain on Friday defied China's anger by raising Hong Kong's autonomy at the UN Security Council as President Donald Trump prepared new measures against Beijing. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2AhuHN0

US President Donald Trump said he had spoken to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed the latter is “not in a good mood about what is going on with China,” even as Washington indicated that punitive action against Beijing would be announced on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dfUFPD

Civil unrest exploded across America on the third day of protests in Minneapolis over the alleged daylight murder of a black man by a white police officer earlier this week spread across the US. President Trump, who threatened to deploy the military to take control of Democratic-run Minnesota, warned in a tweet “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2B8PmDi

The White House thumbed its nose at Twitter on Friday by reposting a President Trump tweet that the social media giant had just taken the unprecedented step of hiding because it violated the platform's rules. The tit-for-tat marked a new escalation in the row between Twitter and Trump who uses tweets daily to announce policies, attack opponents, and comment on breaking news. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dixg02

The European Union criticized China on Friday for asserting more control over Hong Kong and suggested the move would have an impact on China-EU relations, but the 27-nation bloc ruled out taking any action against its major trading partner. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TOCyIX

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Australia's highest court ruled on Friday to make public letters between Queen Elizabeth II and her representative, Governor-General Sir John Kerr, that would reveal what knowledge she had, if any, of the dismissal of an Australian government in 1975. The High Court's 6-1 majority decision in historian Jenny Hocking's appeal overturned lower court rulings. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XeMYDu

The Pakistan government will set up a national body to combat the locust swarms across the country as the insects have destroyed crops and vegetation on vast tracts of lands in 60 out of total 135 districts, information minister Shibli Faraz said. He said the efforts to control locusts were going on under a national strategy as there was a dire need to deal with it. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2zxxq56

Iran said on Friday its experts would continue nuclear development activities, despite sanctions imposed earlier this week on their fellow scientists by the United States. State TV cited a statement from the country's nuclear department saying the US decision to impose sanctions on two Iranian nuclear scientists indicate a continuation of a "hostile" attitude. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3euI4rR

Qatar denied on Thursday that it plans to quit the Gulf Cooperation Council as it prepares to mark three years of isolation led by the regional bloc's heavyweight Saudi Arabia. However, the gas-rich state cautioned that the effort by three of the GCC's six members to isolate Doha economically and politically meant people in the region were "doubting and questioning" GCC. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gzRc0k

Pakistan plans to raise $1.5 billion through Eurobonds to bridge a balance of payments gap for the financial year beginning July 1, said sources. With the country's fiscal deficit likely to rise as high as 9.4% and a shortfall in revenues due to Covid-19 crisis, Pak desperately needs funds to stave off balance of payment pressure caused by dwindling foreign reserves and a current account deficit. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36DQPgI

Information Minister Shibli Faraz said the government was also satisfied over the situation in the hospitals. He said that though there were reports that certain hospitals were receiving an increased number of Covid-19 patients, the overall situation was "satisfactory". The load on a few hospitals was more because of the general trend in the public to go to one or two main and famous hospitals, the minister told the Dawn newspaper. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Xelhuw

Twitter on Friday flagged a post by US President Donald Trump on the unrest in Minneapolis as 'glorifying violence', saying the tweet violated its rules but would not be removed. ​​The president had tweeted that the military was being sent in to the embattled midwestern city as authorities there struggle to control unrest over the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2MbIQy6

"In the holy chalice, it isn't bread and wine. It is the body and blood of Christ," said the Rev. Georgios Milkas, a theologian in the northern city of Thessaloniki. "And there is not a shred of suspicion of transmitting this virus, this disease, as in the holy chalice there is the Son and the Word of God." This is proven, he said, through "the experience of centuries." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2AfWOfF

Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been ousted from his ethnic Malay political party in the latest twist of a power struggle with his successor, but he has vowed to challenge the move. ​​​​The 94-year-old Mahathir, along with his son and three other senior members, were expelled from the Bersatu party on Thursday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gxGAPn

The Ministry of National Health Services reported that 25,309 cases were diagnosed in Sindh, 22,964 in Punjab, 8,842 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 3,928 in Balochistan, 2,100 in Islamabad, 658 in Gilgit-Baltistan, and 227 in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. On the positive side, the ministry said, 22,305 patients have been recovered so far from the virus. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dfuvMH

"We must avoid it. The pandemic has demonstrated our fragility. Despite all the technological and scientific advances of recent decades, we are in an unprecedented human crisis, because of a microscopic virus," the UN Secretary General said on Thursday to the high-level event on Financing For Development. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cgjUzQ

Exim is so widely used - though far less known than such commercial alternatives as Microsoft's proprietary Exchange - that some companies and government agencies that run it may still not have patched the vulnerability, said Jake Williams, president of Rendition Infosec and a former US government hacker. It took Williams about a minute of online probing on Thursday to find a potentially vulnerable government server in the UK from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2XdrSWe

The Trump administration may soon expel thousands of Chinese graduate students enrolled at US universities and impose other sanctions against Chinese officials in the latest signs of tensions between Washington and Beijing that are raging over trade, the coronavirus pandemic, human rights and the status of Hong Kong. Trump said he would make an announcement about China on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZM9dTd

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun called for officials to examine working conditions at warehouses of online shopping companies, which have seen orders surge during the pandemic, and other congested workplaces where infection risks may be high. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dbHKOw

The ban comes amid border tensions between Beijing and Delhi. Global Times reported that "the ban comes after tensions between the two countries flared up in Galwan Valley region," which it blamed on "India's recent, illegal construction of defence facilities on the border to Chinese territory". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TNb7zd

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Minnesota governor Tim Walz called in the National Guard on Thursday as looting broke out in St. Paul and a wounded Minneapolis braced for more violence after rioting over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man in police custody, reduced parts of one neighborhood to a smoking shambles. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3er5cHV

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