Golgappas makes frequent entries into WH menu
Golgappa, pani puri or puchka is making frequent entry into the White House receptions with guests being served with this mouth-watering popular Indian street food. In the last year, it has been served at least a couple of times, the latest being the Rose Garden reception on Monday hosted by President...
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EU agrees on a new migration pact
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Biden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminumBiden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum
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Aussie army whistleblower sent to jail
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2 French officers killed, 3 injured in convoy attack
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Georgian parliament approves divisive ‘foreign influence’ bill
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Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza
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Indonesian rescuers search through rubble after floods kill 50
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Ex-Indian Army officer with UN killed in Gaza
A former Indian Army officer working with the United Nations was killed in Gaza when the vehicle he was travelling in came under attack in strife-torn Rafah, becoming the “first international casualty” for the world body since the Israel-Hamas conflict started last year. The United Nations has called for a full...
More United States parents than ever have paid leave this Mother’s Day
More working US parents than ever are celebrating their first Mother’s Day with hard-fought access to paid time off to care for newborns. But the majority still must forego pay to care for new babies or other loved ones, even as efforts to expand paid parental and family leave gain...
Floods in Af sweep away livelihoods
(): Shopkeeper Nazer Mohammad ran home as soon as he heard about flash floods crashing into the outskirts of a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan. By the time he got there, there was nothing left, including his family of five. “Everything happened just all of a sudden. I came home, but...
SL Freedom Party elects Rajapakshe as chairman after Sirisena resigns
(): Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe was elected as the chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) on Sunday after former president Maithripala Sirisena formally resigned from the chairmanship amid reports of heightened tensions between rival factions. The Executive Committee of the Maithripala faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party...
Apartment block collapses in Russian border city
(): An apartment block partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, leaving at least 19 injured. Officials blamed Ukrainian shelling and said there were also likely deaths. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part...
37 die as flash floods, cold lava flow ravage Sumatra island
Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 37 people and more than a dozen others were missing, officials said on Sunday. Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on...
Seven security personnel killed in twin attacks in North Waziristan
At least seven security personnel have been killed and two injured in two separate militant attacks on security forces in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said on Sunday. Local officials said five security personnel were killed and two injured during the first attack that took place in the Hassan Khel area...
