Trump loses appeal, must testify in New York civil probe
Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state's civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. A four-judge panel in the appellate division of the state's trial court upheld Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron's Feb 17 ruling enforcing subpoenas for Trump and his...
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Amber Heard expected to testify again in Johnny Depp $50 mn defamation trial
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Amazon opens its first physical clothing store in US
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'Humbled' Boris Johnson apologises for partygate
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Sri Lankan PM Wickremesinghe also appointed Finance Minister to steer crisis-hit nation out of the woods
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Texas school massacre: 19 children, 2 adults shot dead, several critical
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Ukraine: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol's ruins
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Chinese FM to visit Solomon Islands amid security pact worry
24 May 2022 | AP
200 bodies found in Mariupol as war rages in Ukraine's east
Workers digging through rubble found 200 bodies in Mariupol, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, another grim discovery in the ruined port city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the 3-month-old war. The bodies found in the basement of a collapsed apartment building were in a state of decomposition and...
PM Modi meets former Japanese premiers Abe, Suga, Mori
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met former Japanese Prime Ministers Yoshihide Suga, Yoshiro Mori and Shinzo Abe and exchanged views on further strengthening the special strategic and global partnership between the two countries. Mori is the current chairperson of the Japan-India Association (JIA) while Abe will be taking over this...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka planning to study on oil exploration in Mannar Basin
The crisis-hit Sri Lankan government is planning to undertake a feasibility study on oil exploration in the Mannar Basin, a shallow bay part of the Laccadive Sea in the Indian Ocean, which has about 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to meet the energy needs of the island...
Jaishankar meets US & Japanese counterparts in Tokyo; discusses regional, global issues
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday met his US and Japanese counterparts on the sidelines of the Quad summit here and discussed regional and global issues. Jaishankar, who is here as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's delegation, met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and held talks with him...
Committed to making US-India partnership among closest on earth: Prez Biden tells PM Modi in Japan
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he is committed to making America's partnership with India among the closest on earth, saying there is so much that the two countries can and will do together. The two leaders are in Japan for the second Quad leaders'...
Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices; petrol at all-time high of Rs 420, diesel Rs 400 per litre
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Tuesday raised the petrol price by 24.3 per cent and diesel by 38.4 per cent, a record hike in fuel prices amidst the country's worst economic crisis due to the shortage of foreign exchange reserves. With the second fuel price hike since April 19, now the most-used...
Modi proposes 'Japan Week' to celebrate Japanese contribution to India's development journey
Seeking greater investments in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday proposed celebrating Japan's contribution to the country's development journey in the form of a ‘Japan Week'. Modi chaired a roundtable with Japanese business leaders here in which top executives and CEOs of 34 Japanese companies participated. Majority of these companies...
