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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapter in the 49th state’s long history with Russia — and with international tensions.Siberian fur traders arrived from across the Bering Sea in the first part of the 18th century, and the imprint of Russian settlement in Alaska remains. The oldest building in Anchorage is a Russian Orthodox church, and many Alaska Natives have Russian surnames.The nations are so close — Alaska’s Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait is less than 3 miles (5 kilometers)…

Thiruvananthapuram: As the Congress intensifies its protest in the National Capital against the Election Commission of India over alleged voter fraud in Bihar and Karnataka in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, its Kerala unit Tuesday approached the state police regarding alleged fraud in the Thrissur constituency, where the BJP secured its first-ever Lok Sabha victory in the state. The Congress filed a police complaint against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Suresh Gopi, alleging that the actor-turned-politician had falsely claimed in his election affidavit that he had been a resident of Thrissur for six months. The complaint was submitted in person to…

Bengaluru’s Mahadevapura Assembly constituency – thrust into the spotlight by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of “theft” of 1,00,250 votes there by the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls – exemplifies the explosive growth witnessed by the city in the past two decades in its transformation into the information technology capital of India.Once an amalgamation of sleepy villages such as Bellandur, Varthur and Marathahalli, the eastern fringe of Bengaluru is now a mix of traffic, endless tech parks with glass facades, and large swathes of apartment blocks. But, in the narrow alleys and roads behind the main streets, still…

ThiruvananthapuramAug 13, 2025 08:12 IST First published on: Aug 13, 2025 at 07:46 IST Share Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s accusations of “vote theft” have found resonance in Kerala, where the Congress has alleged that the electoral rolls in the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat were “manipulated in favour of BJP candidate and actor-turned-political Suresh Gopi”, who went on to become the BJP’s first-ever MP from the state. The Congress on Tuesday filed a complaint against Gopi and demanded a case be registered against him for furnishing a false declaration to be included in the voter…

A day after the West Bengal government wrote to the Election Commission (EC) that it doesn’t intend to suspend just yet its officers accused of committing “irregularities” in electoral roll revision, the poll panel on Tuesday summoned state Chief Secretary Manoj Pant to Delhi to explain the decision, sources said.The state’s top bureaucrat was directed to report in person to Nirvachan Sadan, the EC headquarters in the national capital, by 5 pm on August 13. The move came in response to Pant’s communication to the ECI on Monday, stating that suspending the identified officers and filing FIRs against them, as…

New DelhiAug 13, 2025 08:53 IST First published on: Aug 13, 2025 at 07:31 IST Share Continuing his offensive against the Election Commission over claims of irregularities in electoral rolls, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said “abhi picture baki hai (the movie is not over yet)”, hinting that there might be more evidence of “vote chori” with him. The Congress MP is learnt to have told a meeting of senior party leaders that he has details of irregularities on more than 40 seats and will release the evidence soon. Last week, Gandhi had held a…

In its chargesheet against businessman Robert Vadra, the husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in connection with its money laundering investigation in a 2008 deal for a 3.53-acre plot in Gurgaon’s Shikohpur village, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed that Vadra had put the “entire onus” for this deal on three deceased persons close to him – Mahesh Nagar, H L Pahwa and Rajesh KhuranaThe ED filed the chargesheet against Vadra and other accused before a special PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering) court in Delhi last month. Vadra’s office then issued a statement saying that “the present proceedings were nothing…

Citing the findings of the Congress’s internal investigation, Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, had alleged last week that over one lakh votes were “stolen” in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura Assembly segment — part of the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat — during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Of these, he said, nearly half involved irregularities in electors’ addresses.While the Election Commission (EC) is yet to respond to the charge, the claim spotlights a long-standing challenge for the poll body — the absence of standardised addresses for many voters, and the continued practice of assigning “notional” house numbers. Gandhi…

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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan judge convicted six people of various crimes Tuesday in connection with the deaths of 41 girls in a 2017 fire at a facility for at-risk youth that had a history of abuse.They had all declared their innocence Tuesday. Judge Ingrid Cifuentes handed down cumulative sentences of six years to 25 years for charges ranging from manslaughter to abuse of authority. She also ordered the investigation of former President Jimmy Morales for his role in ordering police to work at a facility where minors who had not committed crimes were held.Prosecutors had earlier requested sentences…