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US warships transit Taiwan Strait for first time since Pelosi visit
Taipei, Aug 28 Two US Navy warships sailed southward through the strategic Taiwan Strait for the first time since a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was harshly condemned by China. The guided-missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville were on a "routine" mission through international waters, the ...UN General Assembly President to visit India on Sunday
United Nations, Aug 27 UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid is to arrive in India on Sunday for a two-day visit. He is scheduled to meet Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra and discuss the "ongoing issues at the General Assembly, and India's engagement with the United ...Aid group rescues another 60 migrants from the Mediterranean
Rome, Aug 27 The private aid organisation SOS Mediterranee on Saturday said it rescued a group of migrants from a vessel in distress in the Mediterranean. The crew of the Ocean Viking rescue ship took almost 60 people on board from an overcrowded wooden boat in the Maltese search zone ...New gas pipeline linking Poland, Slovakia opens
Warsaw, Aug 27 Poland and Slovakia celebrated the launch of a new pipeline connecting them, which enables Warsaw to import 5.7 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas and grants Bratislava access to 4.7 bcm each year. The 164-km new pipeline is part of the North-South Gas Corridor that links ...Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech over patent infringement of its Covid vaccine
New York, Aug 26 Biotechnology major Moderna on Friday sued rival Pfizer and BioNTech over alleged infringement of its messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology patents. In the lawsuit filed in the US and Germany, Moderna alleged that Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine 'Comirnaty' unlawfully infringes patents Moderna filed between 2010 ...Twitter whistleblower Zatko to testify at US Congress on Sep 13
San Francisco, Aug 25 Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is set to testify at US Congress on September 13 about allegation he leveled against the Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform over misleading regulators about security practices and actual number of bot accounts. Twitter's former security chief Zatko will testify Twitter before ...US forces carry out second airstrike on Syria in 24 hrs
Damascus, Aug 25 The US Air Force has bombed new positions manned by militias loyal to Iran in Syria for the second time in 24 hours, the American militarys Central Command and a monitoring group said on Thursday.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the new airstrikes targeting posts ...‘China’s manipulating global discourse to drown out vast human rights abuses of Uyghurs’
Washington, Aug 25 China actively attempts to manipulate and dominate global discourse on Xinjiang and to discredit independent sources reporting ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity conducted against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, the US State Department said in a report. China directed ...Insufficient sleep in teenagers linked to overweight, obesity
Barcelona, Aug 25 Teenagers who sleep less than eight hours a night are more likely to be overweight or obese compared to their peers with sufficient sleep, finds a new study. The study, presented at the ESC Congress 2022, showed that shorter sleepers were also more likely to have a ...Zelensky hosts forum on retaking Crimea
Kiev, Aug 24 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hosted an online summit of dozens of world leaders to rally support for the return of the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. The summit titled Crimea Platform, is Ukraine's second effort to mobilize international support for taking back the Black Sea ...
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