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Nepal waives climbing fees for 97 peaks to draw mountaineers to remote Himalayas
KATHMANDU, Aug 11 — Nepal will waive climbing fees for nearly 100 peaks in the remote northwestern Himalayas for the next two years to try and lure more mountaineers to the less developed region bordering China, an official said on
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan set for White House showdown after Trump demands his resignation over China ties
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 — Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to visit the White House on Monday after US President Donald Trump called for his removal last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters
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In a landmark deal, Nvidia and AMD set to pay US 15pc of AI chip revenue from Chinese sales
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 — US semiconductor giants Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to pay the United States government 15 per cent of their revenue from selling artificial intelligence chips to China, according to media reports Sunday. Nvidia CEO
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Fake cops busted in India, six arrested for running a scam ‘crime bureau’, collecting ‘donations’
NEW DELHI, Aug 11 — Indian police have arrested six men for allegedly posing as police and extorting “donations” from a rented office labelled a “crime investigative bureau”. The “International Police and Crime Investigation Bureau”, run from an office decorated
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Marcos says the Philippines can’t avoid Taiwan war, would be dragged in ‘kicking and screaming’
MANILA, Aug 11 — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos warned Monday that his country would be dragged “kicking and screaming” into any war over Taiwan, but must prepare for it. China considers self-ruled Taiwan, Manila’s closest neighbour to the north, to
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Australia will back Palestinian statehood at UN, PM says peace requires permanent state
SYDNEY, Aug 11 — Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday. “Until Israeli and Palestinian statehood is permanent, peace can only be temporary,” he told reporters. “Australia will
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Man takes a cigarette break, then hangs on for dear life as Austrian train speeds off
VIENNA, Aug 11 — A man has survived clinging to the outside of an Austrian high-speed train, Austria’s state railway said Sunday, reportedly after it left whilst he was having a cigarette break. The man late Saturday grabbed onto the
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Trump demands homeless people be relocated ‘far’ from Washington, ahead of press conference revealing new plans
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 — President Donald Trump said Sunday that homeless people must be moved “far” from Washington, after days of musing about taking federal control of the US capital where he has falsely suggested crime is rising. The Republican
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Five Al Jazeera media personnel killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza, international outcry grows
GAZA CITY (Palestinian Territories), Aug 11 — Al Jazeera said two of its correspondents, including a prominent reporter, and three cameramen were killed in an Israeli strike on their tent in Gaza City on Sunday. The Israeli military admitted in
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Trump, Putin to meet in Alaska next week — here’s what we know so far
WASHINGTON, Aug 9 — US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will hold talks in Alaska next Friday in a bid to end the war in Ukraine, which was triggered by Russia’s February 2022 invasion. Trump has
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