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Viral video: Cow plays football with group of boys on field
In a video that has surfaced on the internet today, a cow is seen playing football with a group of boys on a field. Twitter cannot stop laughing. Indian cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle has posted the “funniest thing you will
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Hong Kong violence: China may tighten screws on the island
BEIJING: China criticised the violence in Hong Kong that saw protesters ransack the city’s legislature yesterday, fuelling expectations it will take a tougher line on the territory, even as details of the scenes of vandalism went largely unreported on the
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Baby rhino tries to wake its dead mother killed by poachers
A heart-wrenching video of a baby rhino trying to wake its dead mother is going viral online. The video was shared on Twitter by Indian Forest Service officer Parveen Kaswan. Nothing haunts as much as death and a heart-wrenching video
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Mother orangutan hands over baby to S’pore zookeeper
True bond forged between animal and man. A video of a mother orangutan entrusting a zookeeper with her baby went hugely viral on Reddit recently. Mother orangutan trusts her caretaker completely. The short 15-second video shows the mother orangutan pulling her baby
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Water crisis: India sends out 250 civil servants to dry areas
NEW DELHI: India is sending more than 250 civil servants to some of the driest areas of the vast country in an effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to tackle water shortages. India’s monsoon, which accounts for nearly 70%
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Two bikers miraculously escape a tiger attack
Ever wondered what would you do when you come face-to-face to a tiger running towards you? Two bikers from Karnataka, while they were on a bike traveling on the Karnataka-Kerala border escaped the attack of a tiger. The incident happened
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Taiwan president to visit U.S, likely to anger China
TAIPEI: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will spend four nights in the US this month while visiting Caribbean diplomatic allies, her government said today, in a move likely to anger China, which considers the island a renegade province. China says self-ruled
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Trump-Kim meet, reopening talks on denuclearisation
PANMUNJOM/SEOUL: US President Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea yesterday when he met its leader, Kim Jong Un, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled
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Ship carries waste back to Canada from the Philippines
TORONTO: A ship carrying 69 containers of waste mislabeled as plastic recyclables returned to Canada on Saturday from the Philippines, closing a chapter on a dispute that started in 2013 and sparked a diplomatic furor between Ottawa and Manila. The
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G20: China and US ready to restart trade talks
OSAKA: The US and China agreed today to restart trade talks and Washington will not levy new tariffs on Chinese exports, China’s foreign ministry said, raising hopes for the world’s two largest economies to resolve their trade war. In their
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