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American band ‘Flaming Lips’ want Elon Musk to help them perform at ISS


June 12, 2021

Wayne Coyne, American singer and front man of the popular band Flaming Lips, has expressed his desire to perform at the International Space Station. In his latest interview, Coyne request SpaceX  chief to help them make their dream come trure. Praising the eccentric Tesla chief, he said”I think he’s cool and I think he’s got big ideas that are actually …

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Minal Khan and Ahsan Mohsin Ikram look super happy on their engagement: Video


June 12, 2021

Pakistan’s much-loved showbiz stars Minal Khan and Ahsan Mohsin Ikram got officially engaged on Friday. They  took to social media to announce the happy news with fans and followers. The beautiful couple  also shared some gorgeous photos from their engagement ceremony. Minal was looking drop-dead gorgeous in light green hand-embroidered traditional dress that glorified her desi charm. Meanwhile, her fiancé …

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Iran regains UN vote after US allows use of frozen funds


June 12, 2021

NEW YORK: Iran regained its vote in the UN General Assembly on Friday after the United States enabled Tehran to use funds frozen in South Korea to pay some $16 million it owed to the world body. Iran lost its vote in the 193-member General Assembly in January because it was more than two years in arrears. It owed more …

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Govt forced Apple to give Democrats’ data during Trump presidency: NYT


June 12, 2021

WASHINGTON: Prosec­utors in the US Justice Department under former president Donald Trump seized data from Apple about two Democratic lawmakers on the House intelligence committee, as well as that of their staff and family members, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Subpoenas for the communications metadata targeted congressman Adam Schiff of California, a Trump foe who was then the panel’s top …

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US weighs option of airstrikes on Taliban


June 12, 2021

WASHINGTON: US Defe­nce Secretary Lloyd J. Austin has refused to rule out the possibility of launching airstrikes to prevent the Taliban from taking over Kabul after the withdrawal, but acknowledged that it would be difficult to do so. At a hearing on the defence budget on Thursday, some US lawmakers also suggested that the United States recall all its troops …

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Doctors advise British govt to put off easing of lockdown


June 12, 2021

LONDON: Britain’s main doctors’ union has joined calls for the next planned lockdown easing in England to be delayed, as figures on Friday showed new Covid cases across the UK running at their highest level since late February. The rise in new infections comes as a result of the spread of the delta variant first identified in India. Government figures …

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US, China clash as Biden debuts at G7 meeting


June 12, 2021

BEIJING: Beijing’s top diplomat on Friday condemned Washington’s “small circle” diplomacy, state media reported, in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as G7 leaders met for their first in-person summit in nearly two years. Yang Jiechi, the Chinese Com­munist Party’s chief diplomat, told Blinken that “genuine multilateralism is not pseudo-multilateralism based on the interests of small …

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Ex-Mossad chief signals Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear assets


June 12, 2021

DUBAI: The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and a military scientist. The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to investigative programme Uvda of Israel’s Channel 12 in a segment aired on Thursday night, offered an extraordinary debriefing by the head of the typically secretive agency …

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G7 leaders open summit with drive for one billion jabs


June 12, 2021

CARBIS BAY: Leaders of the G7 countries opened their first in-person talks in nearly two years on Friday, with an expected pledge to donate one billion Covid vaccine doses to poor countries on the agenda in a show of Western democratic cohesion. The club of leading economies — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and United States — say a …

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