by Our Correspondent in Washington, D.C. In a closely contested vote on Thursday afternoon, the Senate confirmed Kash Patel as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), marking a
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ~ Nelson Mandela
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Rekha Gupta, a former student leader and municipal councillor, has been named the new Chief Minister of Delhi, marking the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) return to power in the capital after 27
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In a significant milestone for international law enforcement cooperation, a chartered flight carrying 200 Chinese nationals suspected of involvement in telecom fraud crimes landed in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province, on Thursday
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Nokia is poised to make history by deploying the first-ever 4G cellular network on the Moon, a bold venture that will be tested later this month during the Intuitive Machines IM-2 lunar
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In an era where sustainability is quickly becoming a global priority, a new wave of innovation in textiles aims to eliminate the environmental cost of one of the most common and beloved
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Rio Tinto, the Anglo-Australian mining giant, has reported a 7% decline in underlying earnings for 2024, largely due to falling iron ore prices and inflationary pressures. The company, which is one of
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A large fragment of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket made an unexpected and uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, crash-landing onto a man’s lawn in Poland, the country’s space agency confirmed on Wednesday.
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