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In Japan 'job leaving agents' help people escape awkwardness of quitting

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In Japan, a nation reputed for loyalty to companies and lifetime employment, people who job-hop are often viewed as quitters. And that's considered shameful. Enter "taishoku daiko," or "job-leaving agents". from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/02g9HJ5 via

French cops won right to shoot at drivers but got 'no training'

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In 2017, after a string of terrorist attacks, the government relented. Lawmakers passed a bill allowing officers to fire on motorists who flee traffic stops, even when the officers are not in immediate danger. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2MDI0hO via

France braces for more violence after riots over police shooting

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France said on Friday the coming hours would be decisive after three nights of riots since a police officer shot dead a teenager at a traffic stop in a working class suburb of Paris. The violence has plunged President Emmanuel Macron into the gravest crisis of his leadership since the Yellow Vest protests that started in 2018. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/eultHd0 via

Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro's political hopes die as he is barred from office until 2030

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's political career was in tatters on Friday as Brazil's federal electoral court (TSE) barred the far-right nationalist from public office until 2030 for his conduct during last year's fraught election. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/60qxCiI via

Sri Lanka could exit bankruptcy by September says president

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Sri Lanka could exit bankruptcy by September, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, signalling a turnaround for the country which is emerging from its worst financial crisis in decades. Wickremesinghe "expressed confidence that Sri Lanka would overcome its bankruptcy status by September," his office said in the statement. Sri Lanka launched a much-anticipated domestic debt restructuring framework on Thursday that seeks to rework part of its the island nation's $42 billion domestic debt. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/UAizrI2 via

Macron comes under fire for 'partying with Elton John as France burns'

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Muslim nations denounce Quran burning in Sweden

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Several Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, have condemned the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi man in Sweden. The incident occurred during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and the end of the haj pilgrimage. The countries consider the act a dangerous provocation and an insult to Islam. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/k2rgQRl via

Biden's verbal slip: Putin is 'clearly losing the war in Iraq'

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President Joe Biden mistakenly confused the US war in Iraq with the Russian invasion of Ukraine twice in the past 24 hours. Speaking to reporters, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was losing the war in Iraq, when he meant Ukraine. He made a similar mistake while speaking to donors, referring to galvanizing allies in the "onslaught on Iraq," instead of Ukraine. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/Z6VIvHL via

Putin seeks to project strong image as military questions linger

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is attempting to project a sense of normalcy and assert his authority following the recent mutiny by Wagner mercenaries. Putin returned to Moscow and attended a forum, mingling with locals in contrast to the strict Covid-19 protocols usually imposed on meetings with him. However, questions remain about the extent of knowledge within the military and security services regarding the rebellion. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/vCcI3SW via

French police protesters clash in multiple towns after 17-yr-old boy's killing

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The killing of 17-year-old Nael Tuesday during a traffic check in Nanterre, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in housing projects and other disadvantaged neighborhoods around France. Clashes first erupted Tuesday night in Nanterre and nearby, and the government deployed 2,000 police to maintain order Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/DOwG3S2 via

Want to strike 'truly ambitious' trade deal with India says UK PM Rishi Sunak

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Why Myanmar is rattled by India-US joint statement

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China engineered Covid 'bioweapon' to purposely infect people Wuhan researcher claims

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China engineered Covid-19 as a "bioweapon" to purposely infect people, a researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology claimed. In an exclusive interview, Chao Shao, a researcher from Wuhan claimed that his colleagues were given four strains of the virus to find out which could spread best. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/jkVqwUd via

Taiwan has 'enormous appetite' to expand ties with India: Taiwanese FM

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Taiwan has an 'enormous appetite' to expand ties with India and firming up the proposed free trade agreement between the two sides will be a "big encouragement" for Taiwanese companies to set up manufacturing bases in India, Taiwan foreign minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu said. Wu said Taiwan has been encouraging its companies that no longer find the Chinese market profitable to shift their production facilities to India. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/SV1gnz6 via

Canadian wildfires are causing the worst air in the US in cities

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Some US public school teachers are putting AI tutoring bots to test

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Audio undercuts ex-US president Trump's claims on classified files

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Pakistan hopes for IMF loan nod in days

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Prigozhin has moved to Belarus and Russia won't press charges for mutiny

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Rescuers found body in rubble of Paris building that collapsed in explosion

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Canada's largest city elects first woman of colour as mayor

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The scientist who bats best for science

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UK Labour leader declares he has reset partys relationship with India

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President Putin accuses West of wanting Russians 'to kill each other' in mutiny

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and its Western allies of wanting Russians to "kill each other" during a revolt by mercenaries of the Wagner group, which stunned the country with an aborted march on Moscow over the weekend. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/D65vFny via

Biden calls mutiny a 'struggle within' Russian system

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Pakistan Army sacks 3 officers for attacks on its installations

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Lightning strikes kill 10 as pre-monsoon rains lash Pak's eastern Punjab

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Lightning strikes across Pakistan's eastern Punjab province killed at least 10 people, officials said Monday as heavy pre-monsoon rains lashed the region. The strikes on Sunday mainly took place in the Sialkot and Sheikhupura districts of Punjab. Lightning strikes are frequent across Pakistan, especially in Punjab's mountainous areas and plains. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/sBftC0o via

Want good political economic relations with world: Taliban

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With Russia revolt over mercenaries' future and direction of Ukraine war remain uncertain

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IS kills Sikh man for his faith in Peshawar; 2nd attack in 48 hours

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Gunmen killed a member of Pakistan's minority Sikh community in an overnight attack in Peshawar. Claiming responsibility for the attack, IS said Manmohan Singh was a follower of a "polytheistic" Sikh sect. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/EfMSXHI via

Russian strikes kill 13 in rebel-held Syria

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Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people in rebel-held northwest Syria on Sunday, the deadliest attack on the country this year, a war monitor said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/FhLmXvP via

Pakistan passes revised budget to get IMF lifeline

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Moscow security measures still in place after Wagner mutiny

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'God's guests': Saudis safeguard hajj hospitality tradition

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Trump says US govt has 'vital role' opposing abortion won't say if he backs national ban

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Prigozhin and his Wagner Group: A murderous symphony

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Pakistan reviews FY24 budget in bid to secure IMF deal

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Cash-starved Pakistan has introduced a number of changes to its budget for fiscal year 2023-24 in a bid to revive the International Monetary Fund’s programme and secure a stalled $1.2 billion tranche, the country’s finance minister, Ishaq Dar, said on Saturday. Addressing the National Assembly, the minister said Pakistan and the IMF held detailed negotiations as a last effort to complete the pending ninth review. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/LUPj8d0 via

Wagner chief says he is inside Rostov army HQ controls city's military sites

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The head of Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin announced Saturday that he was inside the army headquarters in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, and that his fighters controlled the city's military sites. Prigozhin earlier said his forces had crossed into Russia from the Ukrainian front, vowing to topple Russia's military leadership, saying he and thousands of his fighters were "ready to die." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/dzh8Xja via

Covid-19 origins remain a mystery US declassified report shows

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A report released on Friday by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that US intelligence agencies could not determine whether researchers who fell sick in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the fall of 2019 were infected with Covid-19, which subsequently spread globally. None of the intelligence released conclusively identifies lab-related work as the cause of the pandemic, and intelligence officials have said they are still seeking information from China. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/aPgoTpX via

New Russian missile strikes hit Ukraine

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Three killed in Russian attacks in southern Ukraine

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At least three people were killed in Russian attacks in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, including two who died after a trolleybus company came under fire in the city of Kherson, regional officials said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/aARqDri via

Ukraine says its offensive operations are meant to shape battlefield

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Kherson residents return to flood-ruined homes after dam destroyed

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US navy detected Titanic subs catastrophic implosion days ago

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The US Navy detected an implosion at the site where the submersible headed to the Titanic wreck site lost communication, and this information was immediately shared with the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard later confirmed that the submersible, called the Titan, suffered a "catastrophic implosion", killing all five crew members who were on board. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/ONCEw2H via

Pakistan PM meets IMF director in a last-ditch effort to get bailout

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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif met IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva in Paris on Thursday for release of halted funds ahead of the credit line’s expiry next week. The Paris pitch came amid claims back home that Shehbaz’s finance minister Ishaq Dar slapped a reporter who asked him questions on the stalled funds. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FYQPh1 via

Climate change leads to growing risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases EU agency says

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Britain celebrates 75th anniversary of 'Windrush' arrivals

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Rescuers make last desperate push as final hours of oxygen on missing Titanic submersible tick down

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The race against time to find a submersible that disappeared on its way to the Titanic wreckage site entered a new phase of desperation on Thursday morning as the final hours of oxygen possibly left on board the tiny vessel ticked off the clock. The area of the North Atlantic where the Titan vanished Sunday is also prone to fog and stormy conditions, making it an extremely challenging environment to conduct a search-and-rescue mission. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/RT1X7ZI via

Gas explosion kills 31 in a barbecue restaurant in China

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"A leak of liquefied petroleum gas... caused an explosion during the operation of a barbecue restaurant," state news agency Xinhua said of the Wednesday evening blast, citing the regional Communist Party committee. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/F1O08o7 via

Time running short as search for Titanic sub focuses on undersea sounds

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Rescuers searching for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic on Wednesday concentrated their efforts on a remote area of the North Atlantic where undersea noises have been detected, though officials cautioned the sounds may not have originated from the vessel. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/7P0rfQw via