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Athens, Oct 13: Greece on Monday condemned as a “direct threat to regional peace” Turkey’s decision to send back to the eastern Mediterranean the research ship at the center of tensions over energy rights. The move which comes as Athens and Ankara are trying to set a date for talks to defuse the row between the two NATO neighbors. The Turkish navy on Sunday said the Oruc Reis vessel would carry

Washington, Oct 13: Facing a steady decline in usage over the last several years, Yahoo has made the decision to shut down Yahoo Groups from on December 15. Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, announced the decision on Tuesday which marks the end of the road for one of the largest message board systems on the Web of its time. "Yahoo Groups has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several

Washington, Oct 13: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 37.7 million, while the deaths have soared to more than 1,078,860, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 37,738,569 and the fatalities increased to 1,078,868, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update

Washington, Oct 13: Vehemently opposing those advocating perpetual lockdowns to address the coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump has said that cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. Speaking on Monday at his first rally since contracting coronavirus, Trump said that lockdowns have done a tremendous damage to the states. “We gotta remember I said it right at the beginning. The

Stockholm, Oct 12: US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways such as radio frequencies, the Nobel Committee said. The duo was honoured "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats," the jury said. The Royal Swedish Academy

Melbourne, Oct 12: The virus that causes Covid-19 can survive on banknotes, glass and stainless steel for up to 28 days, much longer than the flu virus, Australian researchers said on Monday, highlighting the need for cleaning and handwashing to combat the virus. Researchers at Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, found that at 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit) the SARS-COV-2 virus

Seoul, Oct 11: North Korea displayed a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and other weapons during a massive military parade to mark the 75th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party, state-media reported on Sunday. Besides the night-time parade on Saturday, there was also fireworks display, a car parade and other celebratory events to mark the occassion, Pyongyang's Korean

Yerevan, Oct, 10: Azerbaijan and Armenia have accused each other of swiftly violating the terms of a ceasefire in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, raising questions about how meaningful the truce, brokered by Russia, would turn out to be. The ceasefire, clinched after marathon talks in Moscow advocated by President Vladimir Putin, was meant to halt fighting to allow ethnic Armenian forces in

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump will resume in-person campaigning on Saturday after being sidelined by a case of COVID-19, but a debate next week against his presidential election opponent Joe Biden was cancelled because Trump refused to participate. Trump will address a crowd of supporters on Saturday from a White House balcony on a “law and order” theme, an administration official said

Washington, Oct 10: China has amassed 60,000 troops on India's northern border, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said as he hit out at Beijing for its "bad behaviour" and the threats it poses to the Quad countries. The foreign ministers from the Indo-Pacific nations known as the Quad group - the US, Japan, India and Australia - met in Tokyo on Tuesday in what was their first in-person talks