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Garima Vyas always wanted to live in a big city. She thought about New York, long the destination for 20-something strivers, but was wary of the cost and complicated subway lines. So Vyas picked another metropolis that's increasingly become young people's next-best option - Houston. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3nkKkaW

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson personally covered the cost of refurbishing his Downing Street flat, a minister said, seeking to quash claims by Johnson's former top adviser that the prime minister had planned to get donors to pay for it secretly. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aAtboE

A Spanish man with Covid-19 symptoms who coughed on work colleagues and told them "I'm going to give you all the coronavirus" has been charged with intentionally causing injury after allegedly infecting 22 people. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3no0e4f

A first case of the Covid-19 variant contributing to the exploding outbreak in India has been detected in Switzerland, the public health authority said Saturday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tU6svd

Albanians are voting in parliamentary elections on Sunday amid the virus pandemic and a bitter rivalry between the two largest political parties. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3njcgMg

A fire sparked by an oxygen tank explosion killed at least 82 people and injured 110 at a hospital in Baghdad that had been equipped to house Covid-19 patients, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. "We urgently need to review safety measures at all hospitals to prevent such a painful incident from happening in future," spokesman Khalid al-Muhanna told state television, announcing the toll. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aDtQFI

Iraq's prime minister fired key hospital officials Sunday hours after a fire broke out in an intensive care unit for coronavirus patients in Baghdad, causing deaths and injuries. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xkW8hX

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stepped down on Sunday ahead of an early general election he called following criticism over his handling of last year's conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ey7KFG

Rebels in northern Chad are ready to observe a ceasefire and to discuss a political settlement after the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby last week, a rebel spokesman said on Sunday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3niDUJn

The US government went into damage control after facing widespread criticism, especially on social media, for allegedly turning a deaf ear to the dire Covid situation in countries like India and Brazil. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3dQGSSe

Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the US Ambassador in Ankara to protest the US decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as "genocide." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Qo0BzY

At least six people died and several others were hurt in an interstate crash in Georgia that left a passenger van engulfed in flames and rolled on its side, police said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/32NwNiw

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At least six people died and several others were hurt in an interstate crash in Georgia that left a passenger van engulfed in flames and rolled on its side, police said. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/32NwNiw

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The US will rapidly deploy additional support to India and its health care heroes amidst the horrific Covid-19 outbreak, secretary of state Antony Blinken has said. Blinken's remarks came as pressure grew on the Biden administration to ship Covid-19 vaccines along with several life-saving medical supplies to India. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3gDJTr0

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Defending the emergency measures, Merkel said that the government had weighed whether such tough efforts were necessary. "This is something new in our fight against the pandemic and I am convinced that it is urgently needed because we are in the middle of the third wave," she said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3et3QOz

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At least 23 people died when a fire broke out Sunday in a coronavirus intensive care unit in the capital of Iraq, a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure facing mounting Covid-19 cases. The fire started with an explosion caused by "a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders", medical sources told AFP. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nj9pCZ

US President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied decades of pressure by Turkey. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xlr9SU

US President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, a watershed moment for descendants of the hundreds of thousands of dead as he defied decades of pressure by Turkey. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3xlr9SU