Global sugar prices rising partly due to effects of El Nino

NEW YORK: Mainly due to lower global supplies after unusually dry weather damaged crops in India and Thailand, the world’s second and third-largest exporters, global sugar prices are at the highest levels since 2011. The combined ...

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Thursday, 23 November 2023
Putin and Modi might meet next year Kremlin

The two leaders will skip their annual get-together this year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will "definitely" not meet by the end of the ye ...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Researchers develop tool to identify, treat pathological social withdrawal

Tokyo [Japan], November 22 (ANI): Researchers have created a new method to assist physicians and researchers in assessing patients for pathological social withdrawal, often known as Hikikomori. The tool, known as the Hikikomori D ...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Ukraine’s stalled counteroffensive sending bad message Zelensky

Moscow has estimated Kiev’s losses in November alone at more than 13,700 troops Ukraine’s failure to achieve significant battlefield success against Russia is spreading pessimism to Kiev’s Western backers, President Vladimir Zele ...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Four govt employees sacked in J-K in ‘interest of security of State’

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], November 22 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir administration has terminated the services of four government employees, including a doctor, in the "interest of the security of the state". Commissio ...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
US gunship retaliates against ‘Iranian backed militia’

The attack is the first in Iraq since the Israel-Gaza conflict began on October 7 A US Air Force gunship destroyed a vehicle from which an "Iranian-backed" militia had fired ballistic missiles at American troops in Iraq, the Pent ...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Punjab police nabs three linked to Pak-based terror module

Punjab [India], November 22 (ANI): The Director General of Police Punjab Gaurav Yadav on Wednesday that three people with "links" to an alleged Pakistan-based terror module have been arrested. The arrests were made by the Counter ...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Israel approves hostage deal with Hamas media

A temporary ceasefire will be implemented unless the Supreme Court blocks the agreement The Israeli government has voted to accept a deal for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, during which some hostages held by Hamas militants will ...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Newly Assertive Central Asia Rejects ‘Russia’s Backyard’ Label

WASHINGTON — Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev bewildered Vladimir Putin and his entourage when, during a November 9 briefing in the Kazakh capital, he addressed the visiting Russian president in his native tongue. While ...

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Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Coffee grounds can help prevent neurological disorders

Texas [US], November 22 (ANI): Millions of people in the United States are affected by neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s, and the expense of caring for persons with these conditions total ...

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Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Anger grows in Gilgit Baltistan over resource exploitation, power crisis

Gilgit-Baltistan [PoK], November 21 (ANI): A senior journalist from Gilgit Baltistan, Yousuf Nashad has expressed his anger against the ruling dispensation in Pakistan and said that despite having abundant water, the people in the o ...

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Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Feeding raw meat to dogs raises risk of antibiotic-resistant E.coli: Study

Washington DC [US], November 21 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Bristol discovered that feeding dogs raw (uncooked) meat doubles their chance of excreting E. coli that cannot be destroyed by ciprofloxacin, a frequently used ...

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Tuesday, 21 November 2023