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Nearly two million people were still without power early Thursday in Texas, with some facing water shortages as a deadly winter cold spell that pummeled the southeastern part of the country headed east. The National Weather Service said the storm would bring ice, sleet and heavy snow to parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi as it tracks to the northeast. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/2Zs5KYr

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Major General Jeff Taliaferro revealed the high refusal rate in Congressional hearing, as the US Defense Department continues to classify covid vaccines as optional because they have yet to receive full approval from the Federal Drug Administration. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3avY3GZ

Internet services were hampered in Pakistan on Thursday as the country's telecom authority said one of its six international undersea cables developed a fault. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said the international submarine cable system near Abu Talat, Egypt, developed the glitch on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3doSsEs

The Quad nations- US, India, Japan and Australia- held four-way naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in November 2020. Australia participated in the exercise for the first time in more than a decade. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2NhiWwT

The Quad nations- US, India, Japan and Australia- held four-way naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in November 2020. Australia participated in the exercise for the first time in more than a decade. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/2NhiWwT

Giorgi Gakharia said he was stepping down because of disagreement in the government over enforcing the court order to arrest opposition leader Nika Melia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZtKyl4

Nepal approved on Thursday the emergency use of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by an affiliate of China’s Sinopharm, a government official said, the second vaccine cleared after Oxford-AstraZeneca's product. The move paves the way for China to donate 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to the Himalayan nation, which last month received one million AstraZeneca doses from India. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3prniyp

Imran Khan is scheduled to travel to Colombo on a two-day trip from February 22. He was to address the Sri Lankan parliament on February 24. He will also meet Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and attend an investors' conference, reported Dawn. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2M6Ykac

The cold snap, which has killed at least 21 people and knocked out power to more than 4 million people in Texas, is not expected to let up until this weekend. The deep freeze has shut in about one-fifth of the nation's refining capacity and closed oil and natural gas production across the state. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3jXZXTU

Nasa's Perseverance rover prepares for touchdown on the Red Planet Thursday to search for telltale signs of microbes that might have existed there billions of years ago, when conditions were warmer and wetter than they are today. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3qwyTxG

Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) begins when the spacecraft carrying Perseverance strikes the Martian atmosphere at nearly 12,500 miles per hour (20,000 kilometers per hour). It ends around seven minutes later with the rover at rest on the surface. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3qvLMbp

President Muhammadu Buhari ordered security forces to coordinate a rescue operation, his office said, after gunmen in military uniforms raided the Government Science College in the town of Kagara in Niger state. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/37rJ5jA

Netanyahu was one of the last foreign leaders to get a call from Biden, who took office on January 20, despite Israel's special relationship with the US. But both sides stressed their close ties during the call, which Biden told reporters was a "good conversation." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZEVpc1

Planners didn't imagine temperatures cold enough to freeze natural gas supply lines and stop wind turbines from spinning. By Wednesday, 46,000 megawatts of power were offline statewide - 28,000 from natural gas, coal and nuclear plants and 18,000 from wind and solar, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state's power grid. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3pwd6oD

Netanyahu was one of the last foreign leaders to get a call from Biden, who took office on January 20, despite Israel's special relationship with the US. But both sides stressed their close ties during the call, which Biden told reporters was a "good conversation." from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZEVpc1

US Vice President Kamala Harris and her family will uphold the highest ethical standards, her spokesperson said, asserting that it is the policy of the White House that her name should not be used in connection with any commercial activity. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3psQ1Tz

Myanmar's military junta has issued arrest warrants against six celebrities for encouraging strikes that have paralysed many government offices in protests against this month's coup, with total arrests since then now nearing 500. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3bf7LN5

The cold snap, which has killed at least 21 people and knocked out power to millions of people in Texas, is not expected to let up until this weekend. Governor Greg Abbott told natural gas providers in Texas not to ship outside the state until Sunday, with natural gas wells and pipelines frozen shut. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/2ON9phA

Nearly 3.4 million customers around the US were still without electricity, and some also lost water service. Texas officials ordered 7 million people - a quarter of the population of the nation's second-largest state - to boil tap water before drinking it following days of record low temperatures that damaged infrastructure and froze pipes. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3s79F9g

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