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The final phase of ending America's "forever war" in Afghanistan after 20 years formally began Saturday, with the withdrawal of the last US and NATO troops by the end of summer. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QKIEvw

The Covid-19 crisis in India is indeed very serious, the Biden Administration said on Friday, noting that the cases have not peaked yet. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ealfg2

The volunteers gather around a map, suntanned fingers tracing over the bayous, lakes and islands where they'll search. They talk about where they've already been and where they'll go today. They make sure everyone has food and water, and knows the radio channel to use. They gather in prayer and then set off for another day searching for those still missing from the capsized Seacor Power. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2SdkY37

The US will continue to maintain communication with India about its needs to address the Covid-19 crisis, the White House has said, as critical American aid supplies started arriving in the country. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gWqr8S

Top US lawmakers have expressed serious concern over the sudden spike in coronavirus cases in India, saying it is "heartbreaking" to see the "crisis utterly overwhelm the health systems" in the country. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/334aPbj

In his first major speech as Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin on Friday called for developing a "new vision" for American defense in the face of emerging cyber and space threats and the prospect of fighting bigger wars. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xCznpL

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Indian students seeking to commence studies in US schools, colleges, and universities in fall 2021 may qualify for a National Interest Exception (NIE) to get around the travel restrictions being imposed by the Biden administration following the Covid-19 upsurge in India, the US State Department said on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vLEX7R

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast on Saturday but no tsunami warning was issued, Japanese and US authorities said, with no immediate reports of damage. The mid-morning quake hit at a depth of 47 kilometres (29 miles) in the Pacific, off Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture -- near the epicentre of a huge 2011 quake that triggered a towering tsunami. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eJdInd

Charged on six counts including sedition and under Myanmar's official secrets law, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since February 1. She spent more than 15 years under house arrest during previous military rule before her 2010 release and rise to power in elections held five years later. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3t7eTCh

“There is no question that it is a great tragedy, in terms of the loss of life, and as I have said before, and I will say again, we as a country have made a commitment to the people of India to support them,” Harris said. The US will restrict travel from India from May 4. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gT4mYT

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Russia's financial monitoring agency said on Friday it had added jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's network of regional campaign offices to a list of organisations involved in "terrorism and extremism". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/334lUsM

A cease-fire on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan largely held Friday following a day of intense clashes that killed more than 20 people and wounded over 100 in a conflict over water supply between the two ex-Soviet Central Asian neighbors. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tf6q01

Beijing and Moscow have stepped up "state-sponsored disinformation" campaigns denigrating Western-developed vaccines against Covid while promoting their own, the EU said on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3e6iz2R

The Pentagon is preparing for possible Taliban attacks on US and coalition forces as they withdraw from Afghanistan, a prospect that complicates the outlook for winding down America's longest war. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aRfT7n

Minnesotans spent 18 months worrying over whether the 2020 census would finally cost them a precious seat in Congress, expecting to lose one to faster-growing competitors in the South and West even if they found and counted every last soul in the state. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2RaoMBZ

Italy is nearing its goal of administering a half-million Covid-19 vaccines a day. Premier Mario Draghi's office said early Friday that provisional data indicates some 497,993 doses were administered on Thursday, a daily record. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aSz7cx

Indonesia said Friday it will salvage a submarine that sank off the coast of Bali, as grieving relatives paid their respects to the dozens of crew killed in the disaster. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xBn7pG

South Africa's Zulu regent Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu has died at 65, officials said, just over a month after she took the role following the death of her husband, King Goodwill Zwelithini. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eISjuv

Russia has produced the world's first batch - 17,000 doses - of Covid-19 vaccines for animals, its agricultural regulator said on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vz7ZHk

A record-breaking wave of Chinese tourists will hit the road for the Labour Day break, and with borders still shut many will be travelling domestically, to more remote locations and for longer, giving China's economy a powerful short-term boost. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2S55yhl

Announcing a firm withdrawal deadline, President Joe Biden cut through the long debate, even within the US military, over whether the time was right. Starting Saturday, the last remaining 2,500 to 3,5000 American troops will begin leaving, to be fully out by Sept. 11 at the latest. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u4Z6oI

For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/332JWVi

A Japanese sumo wrestler has died a month after falling on his head during a bout in a case that has raised questions about the sport's response to medical emergencies. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vyfFKi

More than two-thirds of all US citizens of the voting age population participated in the 2020 presidential election, according to a new US Census Bureau report, and 69% of those cast ballots by mail or early in-person voting - methods that Republicans in some states are curtailing. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3e6w7eG

Florida Republicans passed a series of sweeping voter restrictions Thursday targeting mailed ballots, drop boxes and other popular election methods, becoming the latest GOP-controlled state to tighten voting rules after massive turnout in 2020. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gQUNtE

Four months ago, America's most populous state was struggling to combat a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations that packed patients into outdoor tents and killed hundreds of people each day. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3e3kpkR

On the sidelines of her son's soccer practice in upscale Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Laura Hahn said President Joe Biden is doing well 100 days into his presidency. But she attributed the opinion as much to relief as analysis. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gPGTIb

President Joe Biden laid out a long list of policy priorities in his speech to Congress - and some are more politically plausible than others. The two parties are working together in some areas, including on changes to policing and confronting the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans. But Republicans are likely to block other Democratic initiatives on immigration and voting rights. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eC7RjG

Rudy Giuliani sought to discredit the federal investigation into his dealings in Ukraine on Thursday, a day after agents raided his home and office. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xCTxQw

Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was among four people who pleaded guilty on Friday of participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/331XK2o

Brazil on Thursday became the second country to officially top 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month, as some health experts warn there may be gruesome days ahead when the Southern Hemisphere enters winter. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xDca6O

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations that include all-night prayer, mystical songs and dance. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aSmP3V

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Government troops and rebels clashed on Thursday in a region of western Chad where president Idriss Deby Itno was killed earlier this month, a spokesman said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u8nHcu

The Russian developer of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine said on Thursday that it would sue the Brazilian health regulator Anvisa for defamation, accusing it of knowingly spreading false information. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3t0N0eZ

A same-sex marriage bill in the Czech Republic cleared an early hurdle in the lower house of parliament on Thursday, but whether it will become law is uncertain with a general election less than six months away. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eAMS0E

Lahore high court (LHC) Chief Justice Mohammad Qasim Khan, during the hearing of a land grabbing case on Wednesday, said that he does not want to say anything wrong about the army, but the way it occupies the properties of people is nothing but land grabbing. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vldOIy

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "naked, thieving king" on Thursday, looking gaunt but defiant in a courtroom video link from prison, his first public appearance since ending a hunger strike last week. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aOjlzy

Iran's president has replaced the head of a think tank that recorded an interview with the country's foreign minister that leaked out this week, a tape that provided a rare glimpse into the theocracy's power struggles and set off a firestorm in Iran. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3e0VzSF

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After 20 years of American valour and sacrifice in Afghanistan, it's time to bring troops home, US President Joe Biden has said, assuring fellow citizens that his administration will maintain capabilities to suppress future threats to the homeland. Biden made this assurance to war-weary Americans in his maiden address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u8JVLu

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Kamala Harris, the first woman and the first Black and Asian person to serve as vice president, sat to Biden's right. Nancy Pelosi, who became the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives in 2007, sat to his left. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32YcGhQ

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President Joe Biden took aim at China in his first speech to Congress on Wednesday, pledging to maintain a strong US military presence in the Indo-Pacific and promising to boost technological development and trade. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32V3FWV

Federal investigators have executed a search warrant at the Manhattan home of former President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3gKhFdY

South Africa has resumed giving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to health care workers after a more than two-week pause in the use of the only Covid-19 inoculation in the country. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ntT0vw