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No truck with AAP in 2024, no support over ordinance too: Delhi Congress
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According to party sources, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge along with Rahul Gandhi held a meeting with the Delhi leaders which included party in charge Shaktising Gohil, Ajay Maken, Arvinder Lovely, Haroon Yusuf, Chaudhary Anil Kumar and others.
4 great white sharks detected in waters off NY, New Jersey
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According to OCEARCH, a global nonprofit marine research group which provides open-source data about shark migration, recently recorded four male great white sharks around the coasts of the two states, CNN reported on Sunday.
Indian-American announces congressional run from Illinois
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Nikhil Bhatia, who has worked in urban education for 11 years as a teacher and principal, presently serves as a local School Council member at Galileo Scholastic Academy in Chicago.
Russia puts US Senator Lindsey Graham on wanted list
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"Lindsey Olin Graham, an American citizen, born on July 9, 1955, is wanted under an article of the Russian Criminal Code," the state-run TASS News Agency quoted the Investigative Committee as saying. The criminal proceedings against the Senator was ordered the Committee's chief Alexander Bastrykin.
Starship will be ready to fly again in 2 months: Elon Musk
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SpaceX also released a dramatic video recapping the first flight of starship. On April 20, the first flight test of SpaceX's fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket, built to take humanity to the Moon, Mars and beyond, lifted off successfully.
F-16s to Ukraine would be 'unacceptable escalation', warns Russia
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"Of course, it's an unacceptable escalation... I think there are reasonable people in the West who understand this. But everything is being dictated by Washington, London, and their satellites inside the EU," he said on potential deliveries of American-made warplanes to Ukraine in an interview with Russia 1 TV on Sunday, RT reported.
Erdogan wins Turkey's presidential runoff
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Erdogan secured 52.10 per cent of votes while his contender Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74, the leader of the centre-left Republican People's Party (CHP) and presidential nominee of the opposition bloc, received 47.90 per cent, after 99.49 per cent of ballot boxes were opened, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the results delivered by the semi-official Anadolu Agency.
US debt ceiling deal ready for Congress vote: Biden
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"I just spoke with Speaker McCarthy, and we've reached a bipartisan budget agreement that we're ready to move to the full Congress... I think it's a really important step and it takes the threat of catastrophic default off the table; it protects our hard-earned and historic economic recovery," Biden said at a brief appearance before reporters on Sunday evening.
NASA, Boeing one step closer to Starliner crewed flight to ISS
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"We are taking a methodical approach to the first crewed flight of Starliner incorporating all of the lessons learned from the various in-depth testing campaigns, including Starliner's flight tests and the agency's verification efforts," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Programme.
Pakistan government turns down Imran Khan's talks offer
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This crackdown - which has thrown the PTI into a deep existential crisis with dozens of key party leaders jumping ship every day - was launched after the party leaders and workers allegedly vandalised and set afire state and army properties in the wake of Khan's arrest on May 9, The Express Tribune reported.
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