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Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their produce paused their protest on Wednesday after the government made a new offer to resume talks, hours after police fired tear gas and used water cannons to scatter thousands staging a march to Delhi.  Issued on: 21/02/2024 – 17:35 2 min Advertising Read more The farmers, mostly from […]

WARSAW – The BBC Russian Service and news outlet Mediazona have confirmed the identity of around 45,000 Russian soldiers who died in Ukraine since the invasion began in February 2022. The issue of military casualties is extremely sensitive in both countries. Russia has banned criticism of the conflict and no official figures have been released […]

Authorities in Michigan are searching for two people accused of running over a waitress outside a restaurant. The incident happened at 7:40 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, in the parking lot of El Camino Restaurant in Keego Harbor, according to the Keego Harbor Police Department. Police said the occupants of a Mercedes — a man and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — James Biden arrived for a private interview Wednesday on Capitol Hill as part of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into his brother, President Joe Biden. The interview with the younger Biden is the latest in a series that GOP lawmakers have conducted recently as they seek to rebuild momentum for an impeachment process […]

WARSAW – Lawmakers from Poland’s ruling coalition will submit a preliminary motion to put central bank chief Adam Glapinski before a state tribunal by the end of March, state news agency PAP reported a lawmaker as saying, in what would be an unprecedented move for the European Union state. The new pro-EU government led by […]

LONDON – British telecommunications giant BT Group announced on Feb 21 the sale of its famous BT Tower, and that the building located in the heart of London will be transformed into a hotel. The London-listed company has agreed to sell the building for £275 million (S$466 million) to New York-based MCR Hotels. “MCR Hotels… […]

Feb. 21—South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is on former President Donald Trump‘s shortlist as a potential running mate in the general election. During a Tuesday night town hall on Fox News, Trump confirmed Noem is on the list of vice president candidates during an interview with host Laura Ingraham. Ingraham listed high-profile Republicans Ron DeSantis, […]

WASHINGTON — Republicans deleted a reference to a discredited FBI informant in a letter they sent on Tuesday to a potential witness in their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. Republican interview request letters typically spell out the basis for their investigation, including with a paragraph describing a credible confidential human source’s conversations with a […]