international

03 Jul

Venice to charge visitors entry fee from coming year to tackle crowding

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Venice has announced that it will charge its site visitors an entry rate from next yr as it tries to address crowding. From January 16, vacationers will have to book their visit online earlier than visiting and pay a simple rate ranging between €3 (Rs 247) and €10 (Rs 823). The scheme makes Venice the first metropolis in the world to require an entrance fee. “We are pioneers, the first city in the world to practice a measure that ought to be revolutionary,” Simone Venturini, the Venice tourism chief, advised The Sunday Times. He additionally called the new measure a…

01 Jul

Pakistan govt warns of mobile, internet services shutdown amid power crisis

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Pakistan's National Information Technology Board (NITB) has warned of suspension of cellular and net offers amid power outages in the country. “Telecom operators in Pakistan have warned about shutting down mobile and web offerings due to lengthy hours of strength outages nationwide, as the interruption is inflicting troubles and issue in their operations,” the NITB wrote on Twitter. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has warned the US that they are likely to face multiple load shedding next July, Geo News reported. “Pakistan could not get the required liquefied herbal fuel (LNG) supply, however, the coalition government was once attempting to…

27 Jun

President Joe Biden walks up to greet PM Modi ahead of G7 Summit

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US President Joe Biden walks to greet Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the G7 summit in Germany. The two world leaders were all smiles as they exchanged greetings at Schloss Elmau in Germany. The video shows PM Modi conversing with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau, while President Biden walks up to PM Modi and pats him on the back. The two world leaders shook arms and exchanged warm greetings. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the summit in Germany where the leaders of the 7 countries that form the Group of Seven (G7) will discuss various important international issues…

25 Jun

2 people dead, 14 wounded in mass shooting at gay bar in Norway’s Oslo: Police

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Two people were killed and 14 wounded in a gunman's shooting at a nightclub and nearby streets in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday, Norwegian police said. A suspect has been arrested who is used as the sole perpetrator, police told reporters. The crime scene extended from the London pub through neighborhood membership and then close to the street where the suspect was once arrested minutes after the arrest began, police spokesman Tore Barstad instructed newspaper Aftenposten. "I noticed a man coming with a bag, he picked up a gun and started shooting," said Olav Roenberg, a journalist for public…

24 Jun

After high magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan, India sends help: ‘True 1st responder’

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On Friday, the Government of India came forward to help to Afghanistan after more than 1,000 humans had been killed in the country due to a high magnitude earthquake. "In order to carefully monitor and coordinate the efforts of various stakeholders for the high quality delivery of humanitarian help and in continuation of our engagement with the Afghan people, an Indian technical team has reached Kabul today and has been deployed in our embassy there," read a statement by the foreign ministry on Thursday. Minister for External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar appreciated the effort, tweeting that India was a 'true…

22 Jun

PM Narendra Modi to go to Germany for G7 summit later this week, will then travel to UAE

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PM Narendra Modi will be in Germany later this week to attend the G7 summit, a govt. authorities assertion stated on Wednesday. He will then move to the UAE to “pay his private condolences on the passing away of H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the former UAE president and Abu Dhabi Ruler,” it added. The prime minister - at some stage in his two-day visit on June 26 and June 27 - will be speaking in two classes in the course of the summit, which encompass environment, energy, climate, meals security, health, gender equality and democracy, the overseas…

22 Jun

950 people Killed, Houses Reduced To Rubble As 6.1 Earthquake Hits Afghanistan

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An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed 950 humans in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the count expected to grow as data trickles in from remote mountain villages.Photographs on Afghan media showed houses decreased to rubble, with our bodies swathed in blankets mendacity on the ground. Helicopters have been deployed in the rescue effort to reach the injured and provided medical facilities and food, said an interior ministry official, Salahuddin Ayubi. "The death toll is probable to upward push as some of the villages are in faraway areas in the mountains and…

22 Jun

Ancient Buddhist Town Near Kabul Threatened By Chinese Copper Mine

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An ancient Buddhist metropolis carved out of substantial peaks near Kabul is in chance of disappearing forever, swallowed up via a Chinese consortium exploiting one of the world's greatest copper deposits. Located at the confluence of Hellenistic and Indian cultures, Mes Aynak -- believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years historical -- was once a large town organised around the extraction and trade of copper. Afghanistan is sitting on big mineral resources of copper, iron, bauxite, lithium and rare earths estimated to be worth extra than a trillion dollars. The Taliban hope to earn more than $300 million a…

19 Jun

Terror attack on gurdwara in Kabul was in ‘response to insults levelled at Prophet Mohammed’, says Islamic State

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An attack claimed by using Islamic State on a gurdwara in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least two people and injured seven, officers said. On an affiliated Telegram channel, the nearby department of Islamic State stated the attack used to be in response to insults levelled at the Prophet Mohammed, an obvious reference to remarks by an Indian government spokeswoman that have been condemned with the aid of many Muslim-majority countries. Grey smoke billowed over the area in images aired with the aid of home broadcaster Tolo. A Taliban indoors spokesman said attackers had encumbered a vehicle…

12 Jun

7 bodies recovered from Italy helicopter crash site

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Rescuers have found the bodies of seven people killed in a helicopter crash in Italy, nearby authorities said Saturday, two days after the plane disappeared from radar screens. The helicopter had taken off from Lucca in Tuscany on Thursday and was heading for the northern metropolis of Treviso when it went wrong in terrible weather in the remote area. "Rescuers found seven passengers dead from the helicopter, four Turks and two Lebanese nationals, who were on a business day in Italy. As well as the Italian pilot," the office of the prefect of the city of Modena said in a…