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New WB govt clears all CBI sanction requests
NEW DELHI: Since 2018, the erstwhile Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal had refused to entertain requests from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for sanction to prosecute public servants and limited approvals for investigations...
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MoU inked, clock starts on final deal
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States expects “a complete ceasefire on all fronts,” as an US-Iran interim peace deal he signed took effect, his vicepresident announced an end to a blockade of Iran ports and a...
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Trump: Will help India led by Modi if attacked
NEW DELHI: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US will help India if the country is attacked under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the two leaders met for the first time in 16 months on the margins of the G7 Summit in...
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With Trump present, Modi flags seafarers’ safety at G7
NEW DELHI: Wars can only be addressed through dialogue, diplomacy and international cooperation, and all countries must ensure the safety of maritime routes and seafarers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering that included US President Donald...
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IRAN, U.S. AGREE TO HALT WAR AND REOPEN HORMUZ, SENDING OIL PRICES TUMBLING
DUBAI/WASHINGTON: The US and Iran said they had agreed terms to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, news that brought relief to markets although the pact may hinge on an end to hostilities in Lebanon and defers talks on Tehran’s nuclear...
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IRAN SAYS ‘NO POINT’ IN U.S. TALKS AFTER BEIRUT STRIKE, CASTING DOUBT ON DEAL
CITYLIGHTS India now a provider of global solutions, not just consumer, says PM in France NICE: India is no longer just a consumer are finding solutions that can benefit of global solutions, but a major all of humanity. contributor to them, Prime...
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AI-171 update offers no answers, no timeline
NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), on the first anniversary of the Air India flight 171 crash, said on Thursday that its inquiry was progressing across aircraft systems, flight recorder data and engine-related...
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3 Indian sailors dead in US attack; 3rd vessel hit
NEW DELHI: Three Indian seafarers reported missing after a US attack on a tanker off the coast of Oman have been confirmed dead, shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Thursday, hours after US forces targeted another merchant vessel with 20...
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IRAN, ISRAEL ANNOUNCE PAUSE IN STRIKES ON EACH OTHER FOR NOW
DUBAI/JERUSALEM: Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other following an appeal from US President Donald Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting’”, though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit...
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India, Indonesia explore deeper cooperation in defence, maritime trade and pharma
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hosted his Indonesian counterpart Sugiono for wide-ranging talks on Sunday, exploring ways to deepen cooperation in areas of defence, maritime trade, investments, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and...
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RBI keeps rates steady, takes steps to attract foreign capital
NEW DELHI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India maintained status quo on monetary policy rate and stance – they continue to be 5.25% and neutral – on Friday even as it reduced its growth forecast and increased its inflation...
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S-W monsoon reaches subcontinent 3 days later than usual; set to cover more states
MUMBAI: Monsoon made onset over Kerala on Thursday, three days after its normal onset date and five days after IMD’s forecast date. Monsoon normally arrives over Kerala around June 1. IMD had forecast on May 15 that this year, the south-west monsoon...
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BEHAVIOUR OF ATMOSPHERIC WINDS HELP DISCOVER MAGNETIC FIELDS ON EXOPLANETS
An illustration depicts magnetic activity in an exoplanet that is a gas giant like Jupiter, but it orbits very close to its host star and is tidally locked. While one side always faces the star and is scorching hot, the other side is extremely cold....
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CBSE chairman, secy shunted amid outcry
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday replaced the chair and the secretary of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and started a probe into the procurement of services for the board’s controversial, glitch-prone onscreen marking (OSM) system amid...
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Edu ministry seeks report from CBSE on OSM tender
NEW DELHI: The Union education ministry has sought a detailed report from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on the procurement process for the board’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, amid mounting scrutiny over the rollout of the platform...
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Focus on synergy as new military chiefs take over
NEW DELHI : General NS Raja Subramani on Sunday took over as India’s third chief of defence staff (CDS) upon the retirement of General Anil Chauhan. His appointment comes at a pivotal moment as the armed forces advance theaterisation—a longawaited...
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A weak monsoon looms as MeT dept lowers its forecast
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday revised its seasonal rainfall forecast downward — from 92% of the long-period average issued in April to 90% — and attached a 60% probability to a deficient season, meaning there is a...
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Siddaramaiah makes way for DKS in K’taka leadership shift
BENGALURU: Siddaramaiah resigned as Karnataka chief minister on Thursday, ending months of uncertainty over the Congress leadership transition in the state and potentially clearing the way for his deputy and challenger DK Shivakumar to assume...
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SIR valid, falls within ECI’s powers, says SC
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of the special intensive revision (SIR) conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI), ruling that the exercise furthered the constitutional objective of free and fair elections and...
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Max temp of 43.5°C logged; respite likely by Friday: IMD
NEW DELHI: Delhi reeled under sweltering heat on Tuesday as the maximum temperature settled at 43.5 degrees Celsius (°C), 3.1 notches above normal, at the benchmark Safdarjung observatory, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The...
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Petrol tops ₹100 across most cities, diesel nears ₹100, as prices raised for fourth time
NEW DELHI: Petrol prices were raised by ₹2.61 a litre and diesel by ₹2.71 on Monday, the fourth increase in less than two weeks that extended a delayed pass-through of soaring global crude oil costs triggered by the Iran conflict. The latest increase...
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IRAN DEAL IS ‘LARGELY NEGOTIATED’, WOULD REOPEN STRAIT OF HORMUZ: TRUMP
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Washington and Iran have “largely negotiated” a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump said, as expectations rose that a breakthrough might be imminent in the...
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SC divided on UAPA bail, larger bench to weigh in
NEW DELHI: In an extraordinary institutional moment at the Supreme Court, a clash of judicial views between two coordinate benches over bail jurisprudence under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) spilled into the open on Friday, with one...
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Tehran digs in as Trump threatens return to force
DUBAI/WASHINGTON: Pakistan stepped up diplomacy on Thursday to hasten US and Iran peace talks even as Tehran appeared to harden its stance over nuclear materials amid new threats of strikes from US President Donald Trump if he did not get the “right...
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Rome, Delhi dial up ties during Modi’s Italy visit
NEW DELHI: India and Italy on Wednesday elevated their ties to a special strategic partnership and pledged to expand bilateral trade to €20 billion by 2029, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni held talks on...
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Minister Pradhan urges pvt sector to step up investment in research and innovation
NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday called on the private sector to step up investments in research and innovation, emphasising the need for greater industry participation in the sector. Inaugurating the IIT Madras...
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People’s power has prevailed; politics of good governance has triumphed: Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said people’s power prevailed and the BJP’s politics of good governance triumphed in West Bengal, while in Assam, the NDA’s win illustrated the unwavering support for the ruling alliance’s emphasis on...
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ANDAMANS SETS GUINNESS RECORD BY UNFURLING LARGEST TRICOLOUR UNDERWATER
Personnel from the Andaman and Nicobar Police, forest department, Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard, as well as scuba divers from various diving centres take part during the unfurling of the Indian Tricolour off Swaraj Dweep, formerly known as...
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Commercial LPG price hiked by nearly ₹1,000
NEW DELHI: Fuel costs for migrant workers, community kitchens, canteens, roadside dhabas and industrial users surged by over 47% on Friday as state-run oil companies raised prices of commercial liquefied petroleum gas by ₹993 per 19-kg refill and...
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Trump weighs options on Iran strikes as crude soars
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US and Iran showed little sign of breaking their impasse and agreeing to another round of peace talks, with President Donald Trump examining options for new strikes on Tehran ahead of a deadline to seek Congressional approval to...
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META FAILING TO KEEP UNDERAGE USERS OFF FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, SAYS EU
LONDON : The European Union accused Meta on Wednesday of failing to stop underage users from accessing Facebook and Instagram, in violation of the bloc’s tough digital rules that require social media sites to protect minors. The EU’s executive branch...
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UAE to leave OPEC as war upends oil market
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it will leave OPEC effective May 1, stripping the oil cartel of its third-largest producer and further weakening its leverage over global oil supplies and prices. The UAE’s decision had been rumored as a...
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PAK STILL WORKING TO BRIDGE U.S., IRAN GAPS DESPITE FAILURE OF FACE-TO-FACE TALKS
IMD issues heatwave alert for north and central India; mercury logs 46.9°C in Akola NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological across Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Department (IMD) on Sunday said Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya maximum temperatures across...
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Trump in crosshairs again as shooter targets DC function
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and officials in his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, US acting Attorney General Todd Blanche...
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AAP-heaval: 7 Rajya Sabha MPs revolt, desert Kejriwal
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was jolted on Friday after Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha announced that seven out of 10 parliamentarians from the Upper House were quitting the party and joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),...
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Trump’s ‘shoot, kill’ order sharpens Strait standoff
DUBAI: President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, he said on Thursday, a day after Iran again displayed its ability to thwart traffic through the...
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Iran attacks 3 ships in Strait day after ceasefire extended
DUBAI: Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway. The attacks came a day after US President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an...
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Clock ticks on ceasefire, Iran-US talks uncertain
ISLAMABAD: Last-minute ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran looked uncertain Tuesday as a two-week truce was set to expire and both countries warned that, without a deal, they were prepared to resume fighting. US Vice President JD Vance,...
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CEASEFIRE AT RISK AFTER U.S. SEIZES IRANIAN SHIP; TEHRAN SHUNS PEACE TALKS
DUBAI: A ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared in jeopardy on Monday after the United States said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its blockade and Tehran vowed to retaliate, refusing for now to join new peace...
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Trump says new talks, but confusion persists
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said his negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran, lifting hopes of extending a ceasefire set to expire this week even as Washington and Tehran remain locked in a standoff over the Strait of...
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Delimitation divide defeats bill to raise LS seats for women’s quota
A Constitution amendment bill to expand the size of the Lok Sabha and fasttrack 33% reservation for women failed to garner the required two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha on Friday, marking the first defeat of a government bill since the National...
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LS expansion will be fair, says govt; Oppn wants it in writing
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday attempted to convince the Opposition that the proposal to increase the Lok Sabha’s strength and fast-track 33% reservation for women would involve a proportional 50% rise in each state’s seats, thereby not hurting...
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Class 10: Trivandrum, Vijayawada top with 99.79% pass percentage; Delhi logs 97.38%
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared the Class 10 results for 2026, recording a marginal improvement of 0.04 percentage points in overall performance, with 93.70% students passing this year compared to 93.66%...
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Women’s quota: Bills seek to take LS seats up to 850 based on 2011 census
NEW DELHI: The government’s legislative push to reserve a third of the seats in Parliament and state legislative assemblies involves raising the cap on seats in the Lok Sabha from 550 to 850, with the allocation of seats to states, the reserved...
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IRAN THREATENS TO RETALIATE AGAINST GULF PORTS FOR U.S. BLOCKADE
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US military said it will begin a blockade of ships leaving Iran’s ports on Monday, and Tehran threatened to retaliate against ports of its Gulf neighbours after weekend talks on ending the war broke down, putting a ceasefire at...
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Talks fail, Trump says US will block Hormuz
ISLAMABAD: President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would “immediately” begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after US-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement or next diplomatic steps in...
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Iran lays down red lines ahead of talks with US in Islamabad
DUBAI/BEIRUT/CAIRO/ISLAMABAD: Iran said on Friday that Iranian assets must be unblocked and a ceasefire take hold in Lebanon before peace talks with the United States can proceed, throwing last-minute doubt over negotiations scheduled for Saturday in...
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Crucial election cycle kicks off with high voter turnout
GUWAHATI/THIRUVANTHAPURAM/ NEW DELHI: Assembly elections in Assam and Puducherry produced record voter turnouts on Thursday while Kerala recorded its highest participation in nearly four decades, as all three went to the polls in a single phase — and a...
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Conflicting claims cloud nth-hour ceasefire
Vance to lead US team to Pakistan on Saturday to hold talks on a lasting agreement with Iran Oil declines to $95 per barrel, Sensex zooms 4%, tracking a worldwide stock market surge TEHRAN: Hours after a last-minute ceasefire was announced, the United...
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‘A whole civilisation will die’: Trump’s latest threat to Iran
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump threatened Iran with civilisational destruction as the US attacked military targets on the country’s key oil export hub, ramping up pressure on Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday morning (Tehran...
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Trump threatens Tehran with night of destruction
Iran on Monday rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the war, while President Donald Trump appeared to widen his threat from civilian targets to the whole Islamic Republic and his ultimatum ticked closer. “The...
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ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS GLIMPSE MOON’S ‘GRAND CANYON’ AHEAD OF LUNAR FLYBY
HOUSTON: The Artemis astronauts have taken in sights of the Moon never before seen by human eyes, crew members reported on Sunday as their spacecraft crossed the twothirds mark on their journey to a long-anticipated lunar flyby. As the astronauts went...
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US F-15 downed, Gulf energy sites hit as talks go nowhere
WASHINGTON: Iran shot down a US fighter jet for the first time in the war and targeted more sites, including energy facilities, in Arab Gulf states even as a handful of ships transited the Strait of Hormuz by using a new route hugging the Omani...
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Trump dashes hopes of quick end to war as Iran continues Gulf strikes
DUBAI: Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states Thursday, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to strike its neighbours even as US President Donald Trump claimed in a televised address the threat from the country was nearly...
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ARTEMIS II MISSION: REACHING FOR THE MOON
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. It’s humanity’s first flight to the Moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, Nasa’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around on Wednesday (US time). Liftoff is set for 22.24 GMT (IST 3:54 am Thursday)....
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U.S. SAYS COMING DAYS IN IRAN WAR WILL BE DECISIVE, URGES TEHRAN TO MAKE A DEAL
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if it did not make a deal. Hegseth issued his warning hours after...
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IRAN TERMS U.S. PEACE PROPOSALS UNREALISTIC, TRUMP ISSUES FRESH WARNING TO TEHRAN
TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD : President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran’s energy plants and oil wells would be obliterated if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran described US peace proposals as unrealistic and fired waves of...
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Iran warns US on ground war as regional diplomats huddle
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Sunday that it will soon host talks between the US and Iran, though there was no immediate word from Washington or Tehran, and it was unclear whether the talks would be direct or indirect. “Pakistan is very happy that both...
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Israel strikes Iran N-sites after Trump extends Hormuz date
DUBAI: Iran’s nuclear facilities came under attack on Friday, state media reported, just hours after Israel threatened to “escalate and expand” its campaign against Tehran. Iran quickly threatened to retaliate and Israel claimed responsibility for the...
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14 charred to death in Andhra bus inferno
Fourteen passengers died and 27 others were injured on Thursday when the private bus they were travelling in collided with a tipper-truck, triggering a massive fire, in Markapuram district of Andhra Pradesh, police said. According to police, the...
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NASA PLANS MOON BASE, NUKE SPACECRAFT IN PROGRAMME EXPANSION
WASHINGTON: Nasa announced on Tuesday it has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20-billion base on the Moon’s surface, while also planning to send a nuclear-powered...
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Missiles hit Tehran, Tel Aviv amid uncertainty over talks
DUBAI: Airstrikes battered Iran and Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel’s Tel Aviv and sites across the Mideast on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said the US was in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war. With thousands more...
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TRUMP PUTS OFF THREAT TO TARGET IRANIAN POWER GRID FOR FIVE DAYS
TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had given orders to postpone any military strikes against Iranian power plants for five days, hours ahead of a deadline that threatened further escalation in the conflict now in...
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