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France's former culture minister resigns over Epstein-linked tax fraud investigation

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- France's former Culture Minister Jack Lang has resigned as head of a Paris cultural center over alleged past financial links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompt... Read More


Gaza's Rafah border crossing has reopened but few people get through

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- When the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt finally reopened this week, Palestinian officials heralded it as a "window of hope" after two years of war as a fragile ceas... Read More


UK leader's chief of staff quits over appointment of Mandelson as ambassador despite Epstein ties

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer 's chief of staff resigned Sunday over the furor surrounding the appointment of Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite his... Read More


Somalia welcomes its first bowling alley as the middle class and diaspora returnees grow

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- In a city long defined by conflict, Somalia 's capital of Mogadishu now echoes with the crash of pins at the country's first modern bowling alley. It's the latest sign of revival... Read More


Rescue teams search for survivors in building collapse that killed at least 9 in northern Lebanon

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- At least nine people were killed and six rescued from the rubble of a multistory apartment building that collapsed Sunday in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, state media r... Read More


EU accuses TikTok of 'addictive design' that harms children, seeks changes to protect users

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- The European Union on Friday accused TikTok of breaching the bloc's digital rules with "addictive design" features that lead to compulsive use by children, in preliminary charges ... Read More


Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumps after a landslide victory for PM Takaichi's ruling party

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Tokyo's Nikkei 225 share index jumped as much as 5% to a record on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in a pa... Read More


Elon Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before what's expected to be a massive initial public offering for the busine... Read More


New Zealand mosque shooter seeks to discard his guilty pleas, saying prison made him irrational

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- The man who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting told an appeals court Monday that he felt forced to admit to the crimes because of ... Read More


Israel's security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over the West Bank

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- Israel 's security cabinet on Sunday approved measures that aim to deepen Israeli control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the already limited powers of the Palestinian Auth... Read More