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Everything you need to know about India’s 2024 general elections as Modi seeks third term
Nearly a billion people will cast their votes in multiple phases in world’s biggest general election
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Pakistan interior minister urges new laws for online speech
Pakistan's new interior minister said Tuesday the country needed better laws to regulate internet free speech, as disruption of social media platform X stretched into its fifth week."We need to make better laws," Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said when asked whether his ministry was responsible for the X shutdown.
2-min read - NewsThe Independent
Why India continues to support Putin as Modi congratulates him for sham election victory
Ties between India and Russia continue to thrive despite Western countries’ efforts to isolate Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine
3-min read - NewsThe Guardian
Who congratulated Putin on his election victory and what does it say about global alliances?
While the Russian election results were condemned in the west, the reaction across Asia, Africa and Latin America shows a new global dynamic is emerging Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Brics summit in 2016. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP
5-min read - PoliticsAFP News
Trump unable to post $464mn bond in New York civil case: lawyers
Donald Trump faced having assets seized in a humiliating blow to his carefully cultivated image as a self-made tycoon as his lawyers acknowledged Monday he doesn't have the cash to appeal a $464 million fine for fraudulently inflating his wealth."Defendants have faced what have proven to be insurmountable difficulties in obtaining an appeal bond for the full $464 million," Trump Organization general counsel Alan Garten said in a filing to the court.
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Biden summons Israeli team in bid to avoid Rafah assault
US President Joe Biden said Monday he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a team to Washington to discuss how to avoid an all-out assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah."I asked the Prime Minister to send a team to Washington to discuss ways to target Hamas without a major ground operation in Rafah," Biden said on X after speaking to Netanyahu for the first time in more than a month.
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Elon Musk defends ketamine use, dismisses investor worries
Elon Musk suggested his use of drugs benefits Tesla investors in an interview released Monday, saying he takes prescribed ketamine to treat his "negative frame of mind."“Ketamine is helpful for getting one outside out of a negative frame of mind," Musk told former CNN host Don Lemon in an interview published on social media on Monday.
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