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Oil prices tumble 5 pc on global commodities selloff after IMF lowers worl
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Crude oil prices fell 5 per cent on Tuesday amid a selloff in global commodity markets after the International Monetary Fund slashed its world growth forecasts for 2022 and 2023, citing runaway fuel and food costs and other challenges from the Russia-Uk
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UN chief calls for 4-day pause in fighting in Ukraine during Easter
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 19 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for a four-day humanitarian pause in fighting in Ukraine to allow for the opening of humanitarian aid corridors during the Orthodox Christian Holy Week.
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Sri Lankan batter Dimuth Karunaratne signs short-term deal with Yorkshire
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], April 19 (ANI): Sri Lankan batter Dimuth Karunaratne has signed with Yorkshire County Cricket Club on a short-term deal.
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Pakistan: Army scurries for damage control after Imran Khan's 'foreign con
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 19 (ANI): Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's ouster, his US foreign conspiracy rhetoric which contradicts with Army's standing, and the country's troubled polity have all placed the military in an uneasy spot which is now trying to do damage control and recover
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UN humanitarian chief tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of Ukraine talks i
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 19 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of meetings on the situation in Ukraine scheduled to take place in Turkey later this week, Griffiths said.
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Musk sweetens offer for remaining stake at Twitter saying will take USD 0
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 18 (ANI): Billionaire businessman Elon Musk declared on Monday that he will not take a penny in salary if appointed to Twitter's board of directors, unofficially sweetening his takeover bid for the remaining stake in the company that he said he hopes to turn into a model
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US inflation warning heightens as bond yields top three-year highs, gold a
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): Alarm bells on US inflation hit a new crescendo on Monday as the yield on ten-year bonds rose to highs not seen in more than three years, while gold prices briefly broke back above $2,000 an ounce as investors sought a hedge against soaring price pressu
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One fifth of humanity could face poverty, hunger resulting from Ukraine cr
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The Ukraine crisis could plunge more than one fifth of humanity, or up to 1.7 billion people, into poverty and hunger, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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India objects to WHO's methodology to calculate COVID-19 death toll
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): India on Saturday questioned the World Health Organisation's (WHO) methodology to estimate the COVID-19 death toll in the country, stating that the same mathematical model cannot be used to estimate the mortalities of a country like India which has a lar
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South Asian community in New York shaken by string of hate crimes against
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 16 (ANI): The South Asian community in New York has been shaken in recent weeks by a string of hate crimes against Sikh men in Richmond Hill, a neighbourhood sometimes called Little Punjab that is home to a large Sikh community and a prominent Sikh temple.
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UN chief calls for calm in Jerusalem after bloody Palestinian-Israeli clas
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 16 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday voiced grave concern over the deteriorating security situation in Jerusalem and called for efforts to de-escalate the tension, said his spokesman.
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After PM Modi's call for food relief to be exempt from WTO guidelines, UN
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 15 (ANI): After Prime Minister Narendra Modi told US President Joe Biden that India can send foodgrains to other countries amid the present problem of food stocks if WTO rules are relaxed, a UN report concerning the impact of Ukraine crisis has made a similar recommen
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