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President Donald Trump said Saturday he's given his blessing to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chineseowned app he's targeted for national security and data privacy concerns.

Calcutta University has decided to provide three hours to its undergraduate and postgraduate students to answer papers for online final semester examinations from home, instead of giving 24 hours announced earlier, an official said on Saturday. The uni...

With precision and boundless energy, a team of carpenters used medieval techniques to raise up by hand a threeton oak truss Saturday in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, a replica of the wooden structures that were consumed in the landmark's devastating Ap...

Two people have died as a hurricanelike storm pounded central Greece, flooding streets and homes, the authorities said on Saturday.

Tehran (AP) A leading Iranian human rights lawyer has been hospitalized a month after launching a hunger strike seeking better prison conditions and the release of political prisoners amid the pandemic, her husband said Saturday. Reza Khandan said that...

Reza Khandan said that healthcare professionals decided to hospitalize his wife, Nasrin Sotoudeh, because of heart and respiratory problems as well as low blood pressure.

After the Holy book was brought to the UAE consulate, the consulate general had sought help from Jaleel for distributing it as sakkath (charity) during Ramzan and the minister had obliged, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.

President Donald Trump is escalating his promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day.

The non-release of grants and Covid-19 induced shortfall in the state's own revenues has handicapped Telangana, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao said in the letter.

Special NIA court judge Prasenjit Biswas remanded the six persons, arrested on the intervening night of September 18and 19 from Murshidabad, to NIA custody and directed that they be produced before the court again by September 24.

Innkeepers in Munich tapped their barrels on Saturday for revellers determined to make the most of a scaleddown Oktoberfest after the world's biggest beer festival was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Uttarakhand recorded its sharpest single-day spike of 2,078 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the state's infection count to 40,085, while 14 more people succumbed to the disease, a health department bulletin issued here said. The death toll in t...

Russian policemen detained historian Valery Solovei after he and dozens of other protesters marched through the centre of Moscow on Saturday to show solidarity with protests in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk.

Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni elected to field after winning the toss in the Indian Premier League opener against defending champions Mumbai Indians here on Saturday. For CSK, the four foreigners are Sam Curran, Shane Watson, Faf du...

Preity Zinta is the co-owner of the IPL team 'Kings XI Punjab'. IPL 2020 will kickstart in Dubai tonight with the first match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings.

The guidelines were issued in compliance with the directives of the current phase of the coronavirus lockdown issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.