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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Thursday condemned Israel and reaffirmed her support for Palestinians in Gaza, after a backlash in her native Pakistan over a Broadway musical she co-produced with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Yousafzai, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, has been condemned by some for partnering with…

Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said Wednesday. Extreme weather events and economic shocks also added to the number of those facing acute food insecurity, which grew by 24 million people…

Russia vetoed on Wednesday a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a move that the United States says suggests Moscow might be “hiding something.” “It’s a joke of a resolution,” Russia‘s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters ahead of the vote. The vote…

An ice cream vendor has been stabbed to death near India Gate in the national capital, police said. The police said that the deceased has been identified as Prabhakar (25). According to Delhi Police, information was received about an attack on an ice cream vendor with knives late on Wednesday evening, after which the police…

 The Election Commission (EC) in Karnataka has decided to establish 1,832 special polling booths to encourage different sections such as tribals, women, and persons with disabilities to participate and vote in the Lok Sabha elections. The Department of Scheduled Tribes in coordination with the EC is setting up 40 special polling booths based on the…

Increasingly confrontational pro-Palestinian rallies by students protesting the death count from the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted across US college campuses Wednesday, triggering tense faceoffs with police in Texas and California. At New York’s Columbia University — the epicenter of the expanding protests — Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said that if the demonstrations were…

Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s former aide Lokesh Sharma has once again hit out at him over allegations of phone tapping in the previous government and the REET exam paper leak issue. Timed just a day ahead of the second phase of the Lok Sabha election, Loksh Sharma claimed Mr Gehlot had handed him…

TikTok on Wednesday said it will fight a new US law that orders the popular video sharing app to break away from its Chinese owners or face an outright ban in the United States. Here is what could happen next for one of the world’s most downloaded apps. What does the law say? The bill…

Criticising Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the ‘distribution of wealth’ issue, former Karnataka chief minister and BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday told the Wayanad MP to first distribute his ‘benami’ wealth. “Rahul Gandhi has spoken about the distribution of the nation’s property. Mr Rahul Gandhi, first you distribute your benami assets,” Mr Bommai said…

A 33-year-old man allegedly hacked a woman technician of the MSEDCL to death over a dispute about electricity bill in Pune district on Wednesday, police said. Abhijit Pote allegedly attacked Rinku Thite (26) inside the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd’s office at Morgaon in Baramati tehsil in the morning, said an official of Supa…