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Hollywood’s biggest AI debut? Las Vegas Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

When “The Wizard of Oz at Sphere” opens off the Las Vegas Strip on Aug. 28, audiences will experience the 1939 film classic in a way its creators probably never thought possible. Thousands of people will find themselves in the eye of the swirling tornado that rips Dorothy’s Kansas farmhouse off its moorings and hurtles […]

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Palestine: If Hamas doesn’t surrender, Israel threatens to destroy Gaza City

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: If terror group Hamas does not agree to disarm and release all the remaining Israeli hostage, Israel threatened to destroy Gaza City, the media reported. Weeks after suggesting a peace deal, which never materialized, frustrated US President Donald Trump had asked Israel on July 25 “to finish the Hamas job.” […]

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Roving Periscope: “Maharaja of tariffs”, Trumpistan’s rant against India goes uglier

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Frustrated and flabbergasted at India bluntly refusing to budge on the trade and tariff issue and, instead, getting support even from China, the US on Thursday vent its spleen, reiterating that punitive tariffs of 50 percent on Indian imports will take effect next week. Calling India the “Maharaja” of tariffs, […]

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Sri Lanka: Former President Wickremesinghe arrested for ‘misuse of state funds’

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who helped stabilize the island nation politically and economically after its worst-ever crisis, including a civil war and the overthrow of his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in 2022, was arrested on Friday for allegedly misusing state funds, the media reported. Wickremesinghe, 76, a six-time Prime […]

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Thai court clears ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra in royal insult case, lawyer says

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

A court in Thailand on Friday cleared former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of charges of violating the country’s strict law on royal insults, his lawyer told Reuters. The court has yet to publicly announce the decision. Influential billionaire Thaksin had denied wrongdoing in the case brought by the royalist military stemming from a 2015 interview he gave […]

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Putin’s demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters. The Russian president met Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday for the first Russia-U.S. summit in more than four years and spent almost all of their three-hour closed meeting discussing what a compromise on Ukraine might look like, according to […]

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PM Modi invites Kyndryl CEO Martin Schroeter to build solutions for global progress

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said it was a truly enriching meeting with Kyndryl CEO and Chairman Martin Schroeter, saying that the country welcomes global partners to collaborate with our talented youth to innovate and excel. In a post on X, PM Modi said that “India warmly welcomes global partners to explore the vast […]

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Judge rules former Trump lawyer Alina Habba was unlawfully appointed as US Attorney

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

A U.S. judge on Thursday ruled that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, was unlawfully appointed as the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey and is therefore ineligible to participate in any ongoing cases. The ruling is a setback for Trump’s Justice Department, which manoeuvred to keep Habba in her post and circumvent a judicial decision not to extend her 120-day interim tenure. “Faced with the question of whether Ms. Habba is […]

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PM Modi condoles demise of NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday condoled the death of NRI industrialist and philanthropist Lord Swaraj Paul, recalling his contributions to industry, philanthropy, and India-UK relations. Lord Paul, 94, passed away in London on Thursday evening. He had been hospitalised recently after falling ill, his family said. “Deeply saddened by the passing of Shri Swaraj […]

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Netanyahu says Israel to resume Gaza negotiations to end war and free hostages

August 22, 2025 revoi editor

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel would immediately resume negotiations for the release of all hostages held in Gaza and an end to the nearly two-year-old war but on terms acceptable to Israel. It was Netanyahu’s first response to a temporary ceasefire proposal put forward by Egypt and Qatar that Hamas accepted […]

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