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Liz Truss widely expected to win but ally of Rishi Sunak still hopeful
The tea-time deadline will bring to an end the eight-week contest to replace Boris Johnson in Downing Street, after the outgoing prime minister announced his resignation following a revolt by Tory MPs, the Daily Mail reported. Around 160,000 Tory members have been given a vote in the final stage of the leadership contest between Truss and Sunak with the result of the ballot to be announced at an event in Westminster at lunchtime on Monday.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa to return to Sri Lanka on Saturday
Following months of street protests over the country's worst-ever economic crisis that led to the acute shortage of basic essentials like food, fuel, medicine and cooking gas, Rajapaska, who came to power with a thumping Sinhala Buddhist majority votes in November 2019, announced his resignation two-and-a-half years before the end of his term.
US SC Judge's wife admits to lobbying with lawmakers to overturn 2020 poll verdict
Virginia Thomas emailed lawmakers in support of Trump's lie that Biden won thanks to electoral fraud. The Washington Post reported Virginia Thomas's efforts in Arizona earlier this year and on Thursday it detailed her efforts in Wisconsin, citing emails obtained under public-records law.
Global Covid cases surpass 600 mn: WHO
As of Friday morning, the overall caseload stood at 600,555,262, with a total of 6,472,914 deaths. In terms of WHO regional offices, Europe and the Americas have so far reported more than 248 million and 175 million confirmed cases, as well as 2,077,355 and 2,817,530 deaths, respectively.
Ex-cop gets record 10-year sentence over US Capitol riots
The federal jury handed the sentence on Thursday to the 56-year-old Thomas Webster who was convicted in May on multiple charges, including assaulting police and violent and disorderly conduct, reports the BBC. Although over 860 people have been charged over their involvement in the Capitol Riots attack so far, this is the longest prison term for a anyone who was involved in the insurrection.
Dalai Lama's nephew bugles global action against China for violations in Xinjiang
Talking about the release of the UN report, Taiwan-based Tibetan writer and author Khedroob Thondup told India Narrative that human rights should be taken as an international problem. "No country can say that it is an internal problem. The world should not take China at face value. The UN report on Uyghurs is significant because UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet was under immense pressure from China. Though the report is late, she is brave enough to release the report". In a revelation, Thondup says: "The US State Department wanted Bachelet to also include the human rights situation in Tibet in her report. Because of the immense pressure from China, it was not possible for her to do".
China registers fewest marriages since 1986
There were 7.6 million marriage registrations in 2021, data released by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs last week showed, CNN reported. That's the fewest since 1986, when the ministry began publicly releasing the figures, according to the state-run Global Times, marking a 6.1 per cent decrease from the previous year. It was the eighth consecutive year when marriage rates have fallen. At the same time, the average age of newlyweds is inching up, with nearly half of those married last year aged 30 and above.
Putin pays last respects to Gorbachev, not to attend funeral
In a press call with journalists, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the President will be unable to attend the September 3 funeral for the former Soviet leader due to a tight schedule. He stated that Putin personally paid his last respects to Gorbachev on Thursday by visiting the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, where the former leader's body is currently is, RT reported.
A year without Geelani's crowing, ISI organises London event
The ISI is using the name of a so-called organisation Tehreek-i-Kashmir UK to conduct the Geelani memorial week. Tehreek-i-Kashmir is among the organisation the ISI has set-up in some of the European countries for anti-India propaganda on the pretext of pleading Kashmiris' case. On the first death anniversary, what reference is shown to Geelani's memorabilia is not known, but one cannot help keep one's fingers crossed in view of the treatment Pakistan gave its own leaders.
Trump may have stashed classified docs in children's homes, Trump Towers: Ex-attorney
Trump may be hiding the classified documents in his children's homes and the Trump Towers in lower Manhattan in New York and several other locations as well, as per him. Cohen has also posited that Trump may attempt to find a scapegoat for any offenses uncovered by the Mar-a-Lago raid, such as his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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