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Malayalam TV Host Meera Anil Finds the Love of Her Life, Gets Engaged to Vishnu

Popular television anchor Meera Anil announced her engagement with Vishnu by uploading a video on YouTube.




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Before Darbar's Release, Fans Get Back to Erecting Huge Rajinikanth Cut-outs

In Trichy, members of Rajini Makkal Mandram have erected a massive cut-out with Rajinikanth as the CM.




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I'm a Big Fan of Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho is a Homage to Him, Says Tamil Director Mysskin

Mysskin's next film Psycho, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin, Aditi Rao Hydari and Nithya Menen, is a tribute to legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.




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Arjun Suravaram Actor Nikhil Siddhartha Gets Engaged to Long-time Girlfriend Pallavi Varma

Nikhil can be seen sitting down on one knee kissing his lady love’s hands as Pallavi smiles lovingly in the Instagram photo they posted.




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'First Time I Wore Something Revealing After Marriage, I was Trolled Terribly,' Says Samantha Akkineni

South actress Samantha Akkineni says she had to be mindful of what she wore after her wedding because she was scared of the repercussions and the trolling.




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Anupama Parameswaran's Facebook Account Hacked, She Lashes Out at Trolls for Morphed Images

Posting the morphed images on Facebook, Premam actress Anupama Parameswaran slammed trolls for committing the cybercrime.




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Nayanthara Gets Rid of her 'Prabhu' Tattoo, Changes it to 'Positivity'

South actress Nayanthara, who dated Prabhudeva for four years, has modified the tattoo dedicated to him on her arm.




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Migrants on roads are no longer just the poor




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Former Iraqi Intelligence Chief Approved as New Prime Minister of Iraq

Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, who gave up the intelligence post when he became the prime minister-designate, assumes the premiership as Iraq faces unprecedented crises due to Covid-19.




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Explained: The Stages and Classification of Covid-19 Transmission

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has continuously denied that India has entered the community transmission phase. To each question put to the government on community transmission, during government briefings, it has maintained that contact tracing is being carried out at state levels and the cases can only be classified as local and cluster transmissions.




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Trump Admin Urges US Court Not to Block Work Permits to Spouses of H1B Visa-holders

An H-4 visa is issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to the immediate family members of the H-1B visa-holders, most of whom are Indian IT professionals.




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South Korean Findings Suggest 'Reinfected' Coronavirus Cases are False Positives

As more and more South Koreans were released from treatment for Covid-19, authorities discovered some ostensibly cured patients were later testing positive again.




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Amid Poor Access, Covid-19 Pandemic Poses a Special Threat to Indigenous People's Health & Culture

The United Nations estimates that the life expectancy of indigenous people can be up to 20 years lower than that of their counterparts.




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Pak Foreign Services Officer in Ukraine Sacked Over Sexual Harassment Charges

A foreign services officer in Pakistan, who was posted in Ukraine, has been sacked after he was found guilty of sexually harassing a local worker.




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Covid-19 Transmission Risk Via Sewage 'Must Not be Neglected', Scientists Say

Scientists said the structural makeup of SARS-CoV-2 suggests that it will behave differently in aqueous environments, compared to other viruses typically found in the intestine.




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Sweden Reports over 3,000 Coronavirus Deaths But Insists Situation Manageable

Officials defended their strategy of not imposing strict stay-at-home measures, saying Sweden's healthcare system still had spare capacity.




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Indian-origin MP in UK Says, Was 'Sacked' as Covid-19 Care Worker for Speaking Out Against PPE Shortage

Nadia Whittome, the youngest Member of Parliament in the House of Commons representing her birthplace of Nottingham in central England since her win in the December 2019 General Election, is now running a drive to encourage care workers to speak out if they have safety concerns.




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Germany to Apply 'Emergency Brake' if Coronavirus Rebounds

On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel and governors of the 16 states agreed to further loosen the rules, albeit with a fallback clause.




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Moderna Expects Mid-stage Trials for Covid-19 Vaccine to Begin Shortly

The drug developer had previously said it expected mid-stage trials to begin in the current quarter, with the aim to start late-stage studies in the fall.




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German Journalist Accuses French Ex-president of 'Grabbing' Her, Files Sexual Assault Complaint

Giscard's French lawyer said Thursday that the 94-year-old former president retains 'no memory' of the incident. Giscard was president of France from 1974-1981.




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US Senators Urge Trump to Temporarily Suspend H-1B, Other Guest Workers Visas

Top Republican senators urged US President Donald Trump on Thursday to suspend all new guest worker visas for 60 days and certain categories of new guest worker visas, including H-1B, for at least a year or until unemployment figures return to normal levels.




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Post Nat'l Outrage Over Black Man Getting Shot to Death While Jogging, Arrests Made After 2 Months

Gregory McMichael, 64, previously told police that he and his son chased after Ahmaud Arbery because they suspected him of being a burglar. Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, has said she believes her son, a former football player, was just jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood before he was killed on a Sunday afternoon.




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‘They are Thieves, not Journalists’: Trump Asks Newspapers to Give Up Pulitzer Prize for Russia coverage

The US President said all the American journalists with the Pulitzer Prize should be forced to give it back because they were all wrong.




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Senators Urge Trump to Temporarily Suspend H-1B, Other Work Visas as Unemployment Reaches All Time High

The H-1B work visa for foreign technology professionals is highly popular among Indians and a large number of Indians also opt for the EB-5 investors visa.




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Georgia Police Arrest Two for Shooting Death of Unarmed Black Man

The two white men were identified by police as Travis McMichael, 34, and his father Gregory McMichael, 64, who both live in Brunswick.




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US Companies Got Emergency Govt Loans Despite Having Months of Cash

Some of the companies that took loans said publicly they were financially secure, with some seeing increased demand for their products around the time they asked for the aid.




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UN, Partners Launch $6.7 bn Appeal for Vulnerable Countries to Fight Food Insecurity, Gender Violence

On March 25, the COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan was launched, but with humanitarian needs continuing to rise, the updated plan is calling for $6.7 billion for the remainder of 2020.




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Solemn Europe to Mark World War II Anniversary Despite Coronavirus Damage

Large-scale parades that had been envisaged to commemorate the victory over the Nazis have been downsized as the world grapples with coronavirus crisis.




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'Beverages With Less Than 40% Alcohol Are Halal, Can Drink Them': Pak Cleric's Comments Invite Ire

Controversial Pakistani cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi made the comments in an interview with an online portal when he was asked to respond to some fatwa allegedly issued by clerics in Saudi Arabia that beverages containing 40 per cent alcohol or less are halal (permissible).




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Iranians Urged to Take Coronavirus 'Seriously' as Cases Stay High

Experts and officials both in Iran and abroad have cast doubts over Covid-19 figures, saying the real number of cases could be much higher than reported.




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Canada Loses Record 2.0 Million Jobs in April, Unemployment Rate Surges to 13.0%

Most non-essential businesses have been shut since mid-March as officials urge people to stay at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but in recent weeks, some of the 10 Canadian provinces have started to gradually reopen their economies.




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Trump Praises Attorney General William Barr for Dropping Michael Flynn's Case

The action on Thursday was a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the past three years have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.




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Shortages of Coronavirus Test Materials 'Critical': UN Lab Chief

The tests the lab sends out use the nuclear-derived RT-PCR technology, which is now common for new coronavirus detection and can give results within hours.




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US Driving Wedge Between Communist Party, Chinese People Over Covid-19: China

US is currently weighing punitive actions against China over its early handling of the global health emergency.




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Trump to Get Tested Daily For COVID-19 After Valet Tests Positive

US President Donald Trump will have to get tested for COVID-19 every day after a military aide who acts as his valet tested positive.




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Study Suggests Abbott Covid-19 Antibody Test Highly Likely to Give Correct Results

Antibody tests can tell whether a person has ever been infected and are considered crucial in efforts to get Americans back to work safely as the presence of antibodies to the virus indicate possible immunity to future infection.




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Family of US Meat Plant Worker Who Died of Covid-19 Sues Company For Negligence

Enock Benjamin died on April 3 of the respiratory disease after becoming infected by the new coronavirus while working at the JBS plant in Souderton, Pennsylvania, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday.




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Venezuela Charges Two Americans With 'Terrorism, Conspiracy'

Luke Alexander Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, were among 17 people captured by the Venezuelan military.




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Italy Becomes Third Country to Record 30,000 Coronavirus Deaths, New Cases Edge Down

Italy's total death toll from COVID-19 since its outbreak came to light on February 21 now stands at 30,201. Only the United States and Britain have seen more deaths from the virus.




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Turkey Charges Seven People Over Former Nissan Boss Carlos Ghosn's Escape: Lawyer

Turkey formally charged Turkish private jet operator MNG Jet's four pilots and a executive with 'migrant smuggling', a crime carrying a maximum sentence of eight years in jail.




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US Lawmakers Urge Support for Taiwan at WHO, as US Criticizes China

Taiwan, which is not a member of the United Nations, has been excluded from the WHO, which is a UN agency, due to objections from China.




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Indian-American Grocery Store Owner in Silicon Valley Charged with Price Gouging

Rajvinder Singh, owner of the popular Apna Bazaar in California's Pleasanton, had allegedly increased the prices of grocery items during Covid-19.




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Emergency Coffin Shipments Arrive in Brazil's Manaus City for Covid-19 Victims

A Johns Hopkins University count says there have been more than 10,000 Covid-19 deaths so far in Latin America's largest and most populous country.




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A Sombre Putin Marks 75 Years of Soviet Victory over Nazi Germany, Amid Rising Virus Cases in Russia

"We will certainly celebrate this anniversary extensively and solemnly, as usual," Vladimir Putin said, pledging that Russia would hold its traditional Red Square military parade and commemorative processions at a later date.




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China's Socialist Political System Has Shown It Can Overcome Any Challenge: President Xi Jinping On Covid-19

President Xi Jinping's comments came as China faced global criticism for its initial inaction to act against the novel coronavirus




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Europe Wasn't Well-prepared: Acknowledges German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that initially most countries were focused on coping with the outbreak at home.




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Indonesia Reports 533 New Coronavirus Cases, Biggest in a Day

Officials reported 16 more have died from the disease, taking the total number of death to 959, while 2,607 have recovered.




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Iran-linked Hackers Recently Targeted Coronavirus Drugmaker Gilead Sciences, Says Report

Two other cybersecurity researchers, who were not authorized to speak publicly about their analysis, confirmed that the web domains and hosting servers used in the hacking attempts were linked to Iran.




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More Than 1,000 Queue for Free Food in Rich Geneva amid Coronavirus Shutdown

The line of people stretched for more than 1 km (half a mile) outside an ice rink where volunteers were handing out around 1,500 parcels to people who started queuing as early as 5 am.




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Ramadan 2020: Quotes, Wishes and WhatsApp Messages to Share with Your Loved Ones

The holy month of Ramadan begins on Friday. Here are some wishes to share on the festive occasion.