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ROME (AP) — Countries prepared to provide troops for a post-cease-fire force in Ukraine agreed to set up a headquarters in Paris for a rapid deployment after hostilities end in Russia’s war on its neighbor. A U.S. delegation was present for the first time at a meeting of the group on Thursday.Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, was on hand for the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the fourth annual conference on Ukraine’s recovery held in Rome. Also present were Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Richard…

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Chennai, July 10 (IANS) The AIADMK has launched a high-pitched social media campaign titled ‘Bye-Bye Stalin!’ to coincide with the statewide tour of party General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS). The tour is aimed at galvanizing public sentiment against the ruling DMK government ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. The campaign, spearheaded by the AIADMK’s IT wing, features an animated video that has been posted across the party’s official social media platforms and widely circulated by functionaries. The video seeks to portray the DMK regime under Chief Minister M.K. Stalin as anti-people and accuses it of reneging on key electoral…

After the integration of Bengaluru metro and bus services with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) on Thursday, commuters in the IT capital can now book QR-code-based tickets for metro and bus rides through multiple mobile apps. The tickets can be bought on popular apps, such as Rapido, Namma Yatri, Tummoc, RedBus, EaseMyTrip, Highway Delite, OneTicket, and Yatri City Travel Guide, among others. Till now, metro tickets could be booked online only through the Namma Metro mobile app, Paytm, and WhatsApp chatbot. While launching the new services, Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge described the move as a “significant leap…

An investigative report on recent cardiac deaths among younger adults at Hassan in Karnataka has said the data does not indicate “any increase in sudden cardiac deaths in the district” but underscored “the growing burden of premature cardiovascular disease”.The report was submitted on Thursday to Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao by Dr C N Ravindranath, Director, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, under whom a committee carried out the study commissioned by the government last week. The study followed media reports that suggested cardiac deaths were rising among younger adults in Hassan. Story continues below this ad…

Mumbai: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was formed for the Maharashtra assembly elections only, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said, suggesting that his party may not go as a part of this alliance in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and other local body polls that are likely to be held post-monsoon. The Sena UBT is looking to form an alliance with Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), he said. “Looking at the rally on 5th of July (a joint rally of Raj and Uddhav Thackeray), it is people’s wish that both brothers should come together. I get a lot of questions…

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of the “beautiful” English of Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai drew confusion Thursday in the English-speaking African country and umbrage over what many considered condescending remarks.“Such good English,” Trump said to Boakai during an event at the White House, with visible surprise. “Such beautiful English.”Although English has been the official language of Liberia since the country’s founding in the 1800s, Trump asked Boakai where he had learned to speak the language “so beautifully,” and continued as Boakai murmured a response. “Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia?”The exchange took place Wednesday during…

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Broken glasses, watches, combs and crumpled, faded identification documents.They were among the personal items belonging to the victims of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica that were displayed at an exhibition on Thursday before the 30th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged post-World War II genocide.More than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were executed in just several days three decades ago after Bosnian Serb fighters overran the small eastern Bosnian town during the final months of the interethnic war in the Balkan country. The bodies were dumped in mass graves around Srebrenica and later reburied multiple times…

Karnataka IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday supported bike taxis–a stance that contradicts the position of his own government, which has banned bike taxis and opted not to formulate a regulatory framework for their operations. Speaking during a fireside chat session on “The role of technology in driving sustainable mobility” in Bengaluru, Kharge said, “Just because we don’t have a formulated (a bike taxi) policy, we can’t stifle innovation.” He added, “When no policy exists for such innovation, we place it in a regulatory sandbox. We permit them to operate as long as they’re not violating any law or doing…

New Delhi: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is under fire from the Opposition over a swimming pool in his official bungalow. Taking a dig at Dhami’s “Jal Mahal”—a play on Arvind Kejriwal’s “Sheesh Mahal”, a jibe coined by the BJP ahead of last year’s Delhi elections—the Congress has asked “how many crores” the CM spent on the “modern, all-weather” pool. Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera posted a photograph, purportedly of this pool, on X Tuesday, saying: “Dhami ji’s Jal Mahal is giving an answer to Kejriwal’s Sheesh Mahal in Delhi. The people of Uttarakhand will demand an account soon.”…