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The sexy reality behind Sicily’s ‘White Lotus’ hotel.
The ‘The White Lotus’, which is an American web series based on a Sicilian hotel, has released its second season online. While the first season was based on the story of a hotel manager and her son, the second season revolves around the hotel’s owner and his son. As per reports, the second season is…
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Russia’s war in Ukraine is continuing longer than expected according to Putin.
Russian Defence Ministry claimed that it has inflicted damage on Ukrainian forces in battling to hold Lyman, but also said that outnumbered Russian troops were withdrawn to more favourable positions. The ministry further said that it hadnegotiated with the Ukrainian regime to return 82 Russian prisoners. It added that Russia would not negotiate on the…
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Barbara Walters, a journalist who broke new ground, died at 93.
Barbara Walters, the 85-year-old American journalist and former host of ‘The View’, passed away on Monday after a nearly 50-year-long career in television journalism. Walters joined the ABC News as a producer in 1959 and became its chief news anchor in 1972. She was named one of America’s 10 Most Powerful Journalists by TIME magazine…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is marked on Christmas Eve.
Ukraine’s military on Monday said it has killed four Russian soldiers after launching air strikes against the Russian military positions in Crimea. It further said that one of the Russian soldiers has been killed and two others have been injured. The military added that it also destroyed a Russian helicopter and several other Russian armoured…
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Russia’s new top commander inUkraine has a reputation for brutality.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country’s nuclear weapons are slowing down the expansion of the conflict with Ukraine. This comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian drone strikes on Sunday left more than 1.5 million people without power in Odesa, the latest attacks in an ongoing series of assaults on Ukrainian…
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There are places to see fireworks on New Year’s Eve.
The New York City Police Department will host its annual New Year’s Eve celebration on January 1 with fireworks, live music and a variety of other activities. The festivities will take place in several locations across the city including Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square East and New York City Hall.
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Barbara Walters was a journalist who died at 93.
Barbara Walters, the first female anchor on a major US evening news show, passed away at the age of 93. She joined ABC News as the first female anchor on an evening news program in 1976. In 1976, Walters joined ABC News as the first female anchor on an evening news program.
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Public health law is regarded as border Band-Aid on the Pandemic Anymore.
US President Joe Biden has said he’s “deeply concerned” over the spike in asylum-seekers at the border after the US Supreme Court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s asylum policy. The administration has put in place precautions to make sure there’s no confusion at the border when the authority ended. The Supreme Court ordered that Title…
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Andrew Tate is a self-styled misogynist.
American man Joshua Tate’s home in Romania was raided on April 11 by the police after a complaint of a woman being held captive in the house. Reports said that police served search warrants to five homes and detained four suspects, two Britons and two Romanians. Tate has said that women shouldn’t drive cars and…
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There will be a number of events in the night sky in upcoming years.
A lunar eclipse will take place in Australia, Southeast Asia and Antarctica on April 20 when the moon will be closest to the Earth in its orbit. This partial solar eclipse and a total lunar eclipse will be the last to see for the remainder of 2022. The eclipse will take place from about 9…
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Indonesian officials say that there won’t be any affect on tourism from the new criminal code.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed into law a revised Criminal Code that criminalises cohabitation between unmarried couples and promotes contraception to minors. The code also criminalises cohabitation between unmarried couples and promotes contraception to minors. It also enshrines laws against abortion, rape and medical emergencies when the fetus is less than 12 weeks.
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How to build your own first aid kit.
American Red Cross VSSL First Aid Kit has been named the ‘Best First Aid Kit’. The Kit contains high-quality items, like metal tweezers, and includes a manual with straightforward instructions for dealing with common medical emergencies like choking, stroke, seizures and cardiac issues. It didn’t include a pair of scissors but the compact metal tweezers…
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The Colorado River is at a critical point as it sinks towards a dead pool.
The US Interior Department on Friday said that it would soon issue a notice of intent that the Bureau of Reclamation may need to modify the operations of Glen Canyon Dam and reduce water releases downstream. Water levels at Mead Reservoir could drop further if this occurs, CNN reported. The US has declared a “state…
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All the news about the biggest, messiest tech deal ever is about the guy named Musk.
Twitter Co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that he was “surprised” to hear about Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk taking over Twitter’s leadership. Dorsey added that he didn’t want Musk to be the CEO of Twitter during the first quarter of 2020. Musk had bought a 60% stake in…
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Andrew Tate was arrested by police investigating human traffickers.
An American citizen was forcibly held at the home of UK’s Tristan Tate in Romania for questioning by the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT). This is the second time investigators have come to the location, after a complaint to the US embassy in April claiming an American citizen was being…
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The Virgin Islands attorney general is interested in banking services for Jeffrey Epstein.
The US Virgin Islands settled a lawsuit with the estate of convicted fraudster Jeffrey Allan Epstein for $105 million (around 830 crore) over his alleged sex trafficking of minors. Epstein is accused of paying girls aged 14 to 17 for sex at his New York mansion and at his Palm Beach estate from 2002 to…
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Wall Street’s biggest winners and loser are predicted in the market’s early days.
Apple’s shares are down about 29% for the year, making it the worst performer among the 50 biggest stocks in the S&P 500. Facebook’s stock is down 64% this year as it pursues its virtual reality dreams. Consumer staples posted their best relative performance to the S&P 500 since 2008, up nearly 8%. IBM is…
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Digital eternity is just around the corner.
Digital companies MyHeritage, Loss for Words, Stonses, and Roblox have developed technology that would allow people to preserve their memories at the death of a loved one with digital technologies. The platform ‘Deep Nostalgia’ uses deepfake technology to animate faces of departed relatives in family photos. Loss for Words aims to store digital NFT replicas…
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Three Russians were killed by debris of a drone shot down near an air base.
Most power plants are now supplying energy to the national grid after they were temporarily shut down in late November when Russia fired missiles to target energy “generation facilities” in Ukraine. The attacks came only hours after Russia blamed Ukraine for a weekend explosion that partially damaged a strategic bridge that connects Russian-occupied Crimea to…
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Southwest is promising a much better Friday.
Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan, in a video statement, apologised for the cancellations of more than 1,000 flights on Monday and Tuesday due to the winter storm in the US. In the video, he said that the cancellations were due to record- cold temperatures across the country. This comes after former US Transportation Secretary Elaine…
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Families are happy after years of separation from China.
The WHO has said that it is becoming more difficult for the organisation to assess the mix of new COVID-19 variants because countries are “dialing back on their surveillance”. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s COVID-19 response technical lead, said that with a lot of people being boosted and vaccined and with people having infections from…
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Southwest Airlines’ social media performance is catching on.
Thousands of US-based Southwest Airlines flights were cancelled and some passengers were left stranded since Monday after a winter storm struck the US. Southwest apologised and said passengers can apply online for baggage returns, flight refunds and travel expense from this week’s disruption. The airline added that there has also been an issue of “connecting…
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Over 100 people were saved and housed in a church during the historic storm.
Several people in US’ Buffalo, New York, have started a Facebook group called ‘Buffalo Blizzards’ to help each other amid the massive snowstorm. The group has been created by Aquilina and Al Robinson, who saved 154 people from the city. “We had people sleeping everywhere in our church, but we were the only ones with…
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The gaming displays are coming with a high refresh rate.
Corsair has unveiled a 27-inch OLED display panel that can be pivoted 90 degrees if one wants the display in portrait mode or portrait mode with full-screen capability. The panel is said to be 240Hz variable refresh rate and 1440p resolution along with AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-Sync support. It also comes with a…
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A woman is dead after getting trapped in snow in Buffalo.
A US woman was found dead in her car after she was trapped in her car in the snow over the holiday weekend. Her family said they kept in touch with Taylor as the day dragged on. It would not be until the next day that Taylor’s body was removed from the car, Brown said.…