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Tibetan glacial lake drainage triggered deadly flood in Nepal, climate body says

July 10, 2025 revoi editor

The deadly flood in Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of China, a regional climate monitoring body said on Wednesday. At least 19 people, including six Chinese workers at […]

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Internet: Elon Musk’s Starlink gets space regulator’s nod for India launch

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Technology czar Elon Musk’s Starlink has received a final regulatory permission for launching its highs-speed, satellite-based, Internet service in India, the media reported on Wednesday. The Indian National Space Promotion & Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe), the regulator, is an independent nodal agency in the Department of Space (DoS) for promotion, facilitation and […]

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Roving Periscope: Playing hardball, few countries dance to Trump’s tariff tunes

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President Donald Trump may not have predicted this. Gone are the days when America’s diktat prevailed worldwide. With globalization, networking, and privatization, geoeconomics is fast replacing geopolitics, and geostrategic goals are a far cry now. His grandstanding and then the inability to perform have earned him a tag: TACO, […]

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“Water bomb:” Arunachal CM Khandu warns against China’s huge dam in Tibet

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The world’s largest dam project being developed by China is a ‘water bomb’ for India, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has warned. The project, which China named as the Yarlung Tsangpo dam, was announced after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the border region in 2021, the media reported on […]

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UK and France must end dependency on US and China, Macron warns

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday Britain and France must work together to counter the world’s many destabilising threats and protect Europe from “excessive dependencies” on the United States and China. Macron, in a rare address to both houses of the British parliament, celebrated the return of closer ties between the two countries as […]

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FBI launches probes into former FBI, CIA directors, Fox News reports

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

The FBI has launched criminal probes into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, Fox News Digital reported on Tuesday, citing sources. The probes are over alleged wrongdoing related to past government investigations about claims of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections in which President Donald Trump defeated former Secretary […]

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PM Modi set for first Namibia visit by Indian PM in nearly three decades

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Namibia on Wednesday, marking the final leg of his five-nation tour and the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the African nation in nearly three decades. The visit is expected to further deepen ties between India and Namibia. The two countries share a historic relationship rooted in […]

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Trump, Netanyahu meet a second time as gaps said to narrow in Gaza ceasefire talks

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday met for a second time in two days with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Gaza as Trump’s Middle East envoy said Israel and Hamas were closing their differences on a ceasefire deal. The Israeli leader departed the White House on Tuesday evening after just over an hour’s […]

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Latest Red Sea attack on Greek ship kills four crew, wounds two

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

A drone and speedboat attack off Yemen killed four seafarers on a Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier, an official with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday, the second incident in a day, following months of calm. Traffic in the Red Sea, a key waterway for oil and commodities, has dropped since Yemen’s Houthi militia aligned […]

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Trump to attend Club World Cup final, FIFA opens office in Trump Tower

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

U.S. President Donald Trump will attend Sunday’s Club World Cup final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, he said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, as world soccer’s ruling body FIFA announced it had opened an office in New York’s Trump Tower. The expanded tournament featuring many of the world’s best club teams has been widely […]