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Thirty dead in Beijing following heavy rain, Xinhua reports

July 29, 2025 revoi editor

Thirty people were killed in Beijing as of midnight on Monday as almost a year’s worth of rain hit the capital in a matter of days, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. The deaths were reported in Beijing‘s mountainous northern districts, with 28 in Miyun and two in Yanqing. State media did not specify when or how the deaths occurred. Heavy rain started […]

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Gunman kills four, including police officer, in Manhattan skyscraper, then takes own life

July 29, 2025 revoi editor

A gunman opened fire on Monday inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper housing NFL headquarters and offices of several financial firms, including Blackstone, killing four people before fatally shooting himself, New York City officials said. One of the four victims slain in the gun violence was a 36-year-old New York Police Department officer who had been […]

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Thailand-Cambodia border calm as military-level talks postponed

July 29, 2025 revoi editor

The Thailand–Cambodia border, where fighting has raged since last week, was calm on Tuesday following a ceasefire deal, and military commanders from both sides are set to meet for talks later in the day, acting Thai Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said. Phumtham and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met in Malaysia on Monday and agreed to halt their deadliest conflict in more than a decade following […]

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Trump says he is not seeking summit with Xi, but may visit China

July 29, 2025 revoi editor

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was not seeking a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping but added that he may visit China at Xi’s invitation, which Trump said had been extended. “I may go to China, but it would only be at the invitation of President Xi, which has been extended. […]

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Technology: Elon Musk’s Neuralink enables paralyzed woman to ‘write’

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Using an Elon Musk company’s innovation, a quadriplegic woman ‘wrote’ her name for the first time in 20 years using her mind, thanks to a Neuralink brain chip implant, the media reported on Monday. The woman, Audrey Crews, paralysed since she was 16, shared the breakthrough in a post on […]

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Roving Periscope: After 35 deaths and Trump’s threats, Cambodia, Thailand agree to ceasefire

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After 35 deaths in five days of armed conflict over a Shiva Temple Complex on their bilateral borders, Thailand and Cambodia agreed to ceasefire to end their ongoing border clashes, the media reported on Monday. US President Donald Trump had also threatened the two countries with trade sanctions. It may […]

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Trade deal: EU to pay 15% tariff to the US, buy energy worth $750 bn, and invest $600 bn

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a high-stakes meeting between Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland, the US and EU on Sunday clinched what the US President described as the “biggest-ever” deal to resolve a transatlantic tariff stand-off that threatened to explode into a full-blown trade war after August […]

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Vaccines prevented over 2.5 million COVID deaths worldwide: Study

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

Vaccines have prevented more than 2.5 million deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, according to a new study. Led by researchers from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy, the study found that one COVID-related death was avoided for every 5,400 vaccine doses administered. About 82% of the lives saved involved […]

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US and EU avert trade war with 15% tariff deal

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

The U.S. struck a framework trade agreement with the European Union on Sunday, imposing a 15% import tariff on most EU goods – half the threatened rate – and averting a bigger trade war between the two allies that account for almost a third of global trade. U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President […]

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India’s Rishabh Pant to miss fifth test against England with fractured foot

July 28, 2025 revoi editor

India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant will miss the fifth test against England at the Oval due to a fractured foot, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Sunday. Pant retired hurt in India’s first innings of the fourth test in Manchester but re-emerged on day two, limping back onto the field to […]