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Junta plans for elections in coup-hit Myanmar this year will "fuel greater violence", a United Nations special envoy said on Tuesday, calling for the international community to unite in opposition. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military toppled democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government almost two years ago, alleging massive fraud during elections her party won in 2020. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/Q2jJV8O

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Moscow said the banned BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi is another evidence of the BBC waging an information war on different fronts and it turns out that the BBC is fighting even within the British establishment. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/IpD3wk5

The apparent threat came in a phone call just ahead of the invasion on February 24, according to a new BBC documentary to be broadcast on Monday.Johnson and other Western leaders had been hurrying to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine and try to deter a Russian attack. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/Skw0aCQ

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On Friday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced that bypolls to 33 seats of the National Assembly will held on March 16. Khan's party had quit the National Assembly, the lower house of Pakistan parliament, en masse following his ouster from power in April last in a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/n52pwbP

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to personally target Boris Johnson with a missile attack just before ordering Russian forces into Ukraine, the former UK prime minister has claimed. Detailing the telephonic conversation, Johnson said, "He sort of threatened me at one point and said, 'Boris, I don't want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would only take a minute', or something like that." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/4EyZ1eB

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The Memphis police chief has disbanded the city's so-called Scorpion unit, reversing an earlier statement that she would keep it intact and citing a “cloud of dishonour” from the officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death. Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis on Saturday said she listened to Nichols' relatives, community leaders and uninvolved officers in making the decision. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/kAqTVyj

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Ahead of its crucial talks with the cash-strapped Pakistan government, the IMF has found an over Rs 2,000 billion (Rs 2 trillion) breach in budgetary estimates for 2022-23 in its initial assessment that might result in escalating the budget deficit and primary deficit targets with a massive margin. Pakistan and IMF officials are scheduled to kick-start parleys from Tuesday for accomplishing the ninth review under the Extended Fund Facility. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/zMNfDXT

Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih won the presidential primary election of the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) on Saturday, reported avas.mv. Solih faced off against the party's President and Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, and received 61 per cent of the votes cast. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/lyha9qA

Ukraine's air force on Saturday denied a newspaper report saying it intended to get 24 fighter jets from allies, saying talks about potential deliveries were still continuing, a domestic media outlet said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/tDiKWMO

Xi Jinping's authoritarian rule in China has become a cause of worry for the business community of the country as a lot of them are forced to flee in order to live a carefree life. Ever since Xi Jinping won his third term, numerous people in the business community from China have immigrated overseas. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/XQN69OS

US President Joe Biden on Friday named his former top Covid-19 aide Jeff Zients to White House chief of staff -- one of the most crucial positions in an administration gearing up for a likely re-election campaign. Zients replaces Ron Klain, who saw Biden through the first two years of his term in the post. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/l3mifkn

US President Joe Biden on Friday named his former top Covid-19 aide Jeff Zients to White House chief of staff -- one of the most crucial positions in an administration gearing up for a likely re-election campaign. Zients replaces Ron Klain, who saw Biden through the first two years of his term in the post. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/l3mifkn

A gunman killed seven people at an east Jerusalem synagogue on Friday, Israeli police said, in a dramatic escalation of violence that followed a deadly raid in the West Bank a day earlier. The shooting in the Neve Yaakov neighbourhood of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem came even as international calls for calm mounted after Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip traded missile fire earlier Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/JruGFgV

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Memphis police beat Tyre Nichols so badly his head was swollen "like a watermelon" and his neck was broken, the mother of the 29-year-old Black man said Friday as the city girded for possible violence over his death. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/BjVPSOC

Canada said Thursday it will join the United States, Germany and other countries in supplying heavy tanks to Ukraine to fight off Russian forces, with a shipment of four fully operational Leopards. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/r4WoTlx

Israeli forces have killed nine Palestinians — including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman — in the deadliest single incident in the occupied West Bank in two decades, Palestinian officials said. The raid in the Jenin refugee camp and the rocket fire increases the risk of a major flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian fighting and casts a shadow on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's expected trip to the region next week. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-with-airstrikes-after-rockets-intercepted/articleshow/97362435.cms

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The FBI revealed on Thursday it had secretly hacked and disrupted a prolific ransomware gang called Hive, a maneuver that allowed the bureau to thwart the group from collecting more than $130 million in ransomware demands from more than 300 victims. "Using lawful means, we hacked the hackers," Monaco told reporters. "We turned the tables on Hive." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/8gjWrAL

The FBI revealed on Thursday it had secretly hacked and disrupted a prolific ransomware gang called Hive, a maneuver that allowed the bureau to thwart the group from collecting more than $130 million in ransomware demands from more than 300 victims. "Using lawful means, we hacked the hackers," Monaco told reporters. "We turned the tables on Hive." from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/8gjWrAL

The Islamic world is worried about the Taliban's interpretation of Islam as it poses political challenges. The Taliban has enforced Sharia laws based on their own interpretation of Islam, according to Dubai-based media network Al Arabiya Post.Taliban leaders, however, insist that their policies are based on Islamic jurisprudence. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/x5zO03i

The US State Department banned former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli from ever traveling to the United States, saying Wednesday that he had participated in “significant corruption” in awarding government contracts. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/kB2A63m

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Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will restore former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021. Trump has 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/Xh8aMJx

Prosecutors will charge a farmworker accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said Wednesday. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/yrCfKS0

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A powerful storm system took aim at the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, spawning a tornado that caused damage east of Houston. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/vl74bnM

New Zealand's Governor General will appoint Labour leader Chris Hipkins as prime minister in a formal ceremony on Wednesday, the government said following the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/fW13YGc

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The United States has evidence that some Chinese state-owned companies are providing assistance for Russia's war effort in Ukraine. The administration is reviewing the evidence to determine its significance. If the administration determined that Chinese companies were supporting the invasion, it would have troubling implications on US policy toward both Russia and China. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/WMa5kZ8

Police say two students were killed Monday and a teacher was injured in a shooting at a Des Moines school on the edge of the city's downtown. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/c6LHG8s

Police say two students were killed Monday and a teacher was injured in a shooting at a Des Moines school on the edge of the city's downtown. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/c6LHG8s

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A Russian warship armed with new-generation hypersonic cruise weapons will participate in joint exercises with the navies of China and South Africa in February, the Russian state agency, TASS, said on Monday. The missiles fly at nine times the speed of sound, with a range of more than 1,000 km (620 miles), Russia says. They form the centre piece of its hypersonic arsenal, along with the Avangard glide vehicle that entered combat duty in 2019. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/opWzrUV

The man wanted for a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California during Lunar New Year is dead, apparently from suicide, police in Los Angeles said Sunday. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said police had tracked a wanted van and when officers approached, they heard one gunshot from within the van. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US news live on Times of India https://ift.tt/npefZ7J

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