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New Delhi: The Government of India today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for in-kind humanitarian food assistance of 10,000 Metric Tonnes (MT) of wheat for the people of…
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Colombo: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced he will step down after protesters stormed his official residence and set the prime minister's house on fire last night. Neither the Prime Minister nor the President were…
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Kathmandu: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday announced the sacking of Ukraine's ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary. It was not immediately clear if the envoys would be assigned new…
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MANILA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a £107 million (around $134 million) trust fund to support efforts by Association of Southeast…
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London: In Wimbledon Tennis  17th seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan has clinched Women's Singles title defeating third seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the final 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 this evening. Elena has become the first tennis player from…
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Colombo: Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo stormed the president's official residence and secretariat on Saturday amid months of mounting public anger over the country's worst economic crisis in seven…
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Colombo: Sri Lankan PM Ranil offers to resign, says PMO Announcement. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe tells Party Leaders that he is willing to resign & make way for an all-Party Government to take over, says PMO office;…
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Forty-eight years ago, a high school senior from Boston submitted a college essay that got the attention of the Yale Admissions Office. He wrote that he had hemophilia and considered himself lucky because it had broadened his experiences,…
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Rome – The barometer for world food commodity prices declined slightly in June for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 154.2 …
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Yaoundé – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomes a USD 1.2 million (JPY 150 million) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition assistance to over 74,600 children, women and men in the Far…
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