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File photo: France’s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot (File photo: AP) France’s military support to Saudi Arabia amid repeated attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels is “strictly defensive”, French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday, as Paris prepares to deploy troops, radar units and defence systems to help protect key energy infrastructure.Barrot’s comments followed President…

Gold and silver face another volatile week, with US jobs and inflation data, Federal Reserve signals, Middle East tensions and crude prices set to shape bullion sentiment. The holiday-shortened week will put the US non-farm payrolls and unemployment data in focus as markets assess expectations for the Federal Reserve’s October policy decision.Consumer confidence, GDP and…

​Mule deer moving through a landscape (Representational photo) The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has announced $13.3 million in grants for 14 projects aimed at protecting wildlife habitat and migration corridors across the western United States. The projects will cover Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.The…

‘American terrorist army’: Iran claims second US drone seized in Hormuz (Reuters file photo) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy has claimed it captured a second advanced US unmanned underwater vehicle, the Remus 600, in the Strait of Hormuz.According to a statement carried by Iranian state broadcaster IRIB on Sunday, the operation targeted what…

New York farmer earns up to $1,800 an acre by turning farmland into a solar fieldRepresentative image from Canva When New York farmer Tony Emmi agreed to lease 30 acres of productive farmland for a solar project in 2023, he knew the decision would be controversial. The Baldwinsville farmer had spent years working land that…

India secure medals at Chess Olympiad (Photos by FIDE) NEW DELHI: Chess came to the Baskar household not through Savitha but through her older brother, Mugesh, whom their father had originally set out to build a chess career around. Savitha’s own interest came from watching him play.By the time both children were training under Chennai-based…

For Americans looking to move, the next hot neighbourhood may not be a bustling downtown or a long-established suburb. It could be a new community near an airport, where housing construction and jobs are bringing in a steady stream of residents.Aurora, Colorado’s 80019 ZIP code, near Denver International Airport, has emerged as the most popular…

US tightens H-1B scrutiny. The H-1B visa programme could undergo major changes over the next year as the Trump administration expands a nationwide investigation into alleged foreign-labor fraud, worker exploitation and potential human trafficking.Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said the foreign-labor visa system could look substantially different a year from now, signalling tougher scrutiny…

Suvendu Adhikari on Bengal’s ‘changed winds’ NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said the situation in the state had changed, asserting that people could now recite the Bhagavad Gita “fearlessly”.The first BJP chief minister of Bengal made the remarks at a Bhagavad Gita recital event in Kolkata, where around 11,000 people…

Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the Election Commission and officials had worked together to delete votes belonging to the Samajwadi Party. NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has again trained his guns at the Election Commission. Reviving his allegations about the conduct of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, he said the votes of SP…