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Trump pulls US out of UN cultural agency UNESCO for second time

July 23, 2025 revoi editor

President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the “woke” and “divisive” U.N. culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, repeating a move he took in his first term that was reversed by Joe Biden. The withdrawal from the Paris-based agency, which was founded after World War […]

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Trump accuses Obama of treason in escalating attacks over 2016 Russia probe

July 23, 2025 revoi editor

U.S. President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of “treason” on Tuesday, accusing him, without providing evidence, of leading an effort to falsely tie him to Russia and undermine his 2016 presidential campaign. A spokesperson for Obama denounced Trump’s claims, saying, “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.” While Trump […]

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Google crackdown: Google removes 11,000 YouTube Channel linked discrimination.

July 22, 2025 revoi editor

New Delhi: In a major step against global Discrimination, Google has removed close to 11,000 YouTube channels and related accounts in the second quarter of 2025. The major operations take down targeted operations tied to state-linked propaganda networks, with China and Russia accounting for the bulk of the activity. Google removed over 7,700 YouTube channels […]

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Cybercrime: Indians lose over Rs.22k cr to cyber criminals in 2024

July 22, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indian citizens lost more than Rs. 22,845.73 crore to cyber criminals in 2024, a staggering increase of nearly 206 percent from the previous year, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Responding to a written question, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar said that, according to […]

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South Korea finance minister, trade envoy to hold tariff talks with US counterparts

July 22, 2025 revoi editor

South Korea’s new finance minister and the country’s top trade envoy will meet in Washington with U.S. counterparts on Friday for talks on U.S. tariffs, Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Tuesday. The country’s foreign and industry ministers will also visit the U.S. for trade discussions as early as this week, Koo told reporters after […]

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Trump releases Martin Luther King assassination files

July 22, 2025 revoi editor

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as part of an effort to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his civil rights movement. Files were posted on […]

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Death toll rises to 27 in Bangladesh air force jet crash, official says

July 22, 2025 revoi editor

At least 27 people were killed after a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka, officials said on Tuesday, with 88 people, including children, being treated in hospital. The F-7 BGI aircraft crashed soon after it took off at 1:06 p.m. (0706 GMT) on Monday from the airbase […]

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IMF’s Gita Gopinath to step down in August, return to Harvard University

July 22, 2025 revoi editor

Gita Gopinath, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund, will leave her post at the end of August to return to Harvard University, the IMF said in a statement on Monday. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will name a successor to Gopinath in “due course, ”the IMF said. Gopinath joined the fund in […]

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Mishap: 20 dead as China-made BAF training aircraft crashes into Dhaka school campus

July 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 20 people, including school students, died and around 100 were wounded when a Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) training aircraft crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka on Monday afternoon. According to military and fire officials, the Chinese-made F-7 BGI aircraft, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Towkir Islam Sagar, […]

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Roving Periscope: India, B’desh worried over China’s mega-dam project in Tibet

July 21, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Two weeks after the 14th Dalai Lama celebrated his 90th birthday on July 6 in the presence of Union Minister Kiren Rijiju at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, China has started the construction of the world’s largest dam project on the Brahmaputra’s source in Tibet, the media reported on Monday. Earlier this […]