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Spotify's Sound Up to boost women podcast creators in India
Sound Up is a global programme created to identify underrepresented communities, and enables participants to hone their podcast skills through training, mentoring, workshops, and full-program support provided by the audio streaming platform. In India, Spotify will focus on women as an underrepresented community, with the hope to bring more female talent into India's thriving audio ecosystem, the company said.
French centre-right party wins regional elections
Results of over 70 per cent of votes cast on Sunday showed that among heavyweight candidates of the LR, Xavier Bertrand confirmed his first-round victory in Hauts-de-France in the north, Valerie Pecresse won hands down in Ile-de-France, the greater Paris region, and Laurent Wauquiez topped in Auvergne-Rhones-Alpes, the region around Lyon, reports Xinhua news agency.
Afghan civilians take up arms against Taliban
So far, hundreds of locals have taken up arms in support of the government forces across the provinces of Takhar, Balkh, Badghis, Baghlan, Nangarhar, Laghman, Jawzjan, Samangan and Kapisa, Herat, Patkia, Ghor and Kunduz. Sources said that since Saturday evening, five districts fell to the Taliban –- Sayed Abad and Chak-e-Wardak in Maidan Wardak, Rustaq in Takhar, Arghistan in Kandahar and Shortepa in Balkh.
Record-breaking heat hits US Pacific Northwest
Portland, the largest city in Oregon, and Seattle in Washington were both forecast to break all-time record highs, reports Xinhua news agency. On Sunday afternoon, the airport in Portland recorded a temperature of 43.3 degrees Celsius, the hottest ever logged there since record-keeping began in 1940, according to the National Weather Service.
Suu Kyi's spokesman freed in Myanmar
U Zaw Htay was the Director-General at Suu Kyi's Office and also doubled up as spokesman for the President until the November 2020 parliament polls. The former military officer had also served as spokesman for the U Thein Sein government (2010-15) that preceded the Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) government, which was ousted following the February 1 military coup.
2 separate shootings in US city kills 1 person, injures another
The East Bay Times report on Sunday said that the police responded to an incident at Hayes Street at about 9 p.m. on Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency. Authorities said a 31-year-old man was shot multiple times and was taken to a hospital and died there. The motive for the shooting has not been ascertained yet.
Iran's nuke negotiator urges decisions after 'enough' talks
"There are a number of pending issues that have been sufficiently negotiated, and it is time for countries to decide," the senior diplomat told the official Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency on Sunday, after a meeting with MPs earlier in the day.
US conducts airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Syria
"The US strikes targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq, both of which lie close to the border between those countries," Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement on Sunday.
Public anger remains in UK after health chief quits for breaking curb
PM Johnson acted promptly on Saturday evening to appoint former Chancellor Sajid Javid as Hancock's successor. Hancock's key job in Johnson's top team of ministers was thrown into doubt after The Sun newspaper on June 25 published photographs of the Health Secretary kissing Gina Coladangelo, one of his key aides, at the Department of Health's London HQ reportedly during office hours in May.
AstraZeneca tests Covid booster shots against Beta-variant
The booster shot, named AZD2816, will be administered to individuals who have previously been fully vaccinated with two doses of AstraZeneca vaccine/Vaxzervia or an mRNA vaccine, at least three months after their last injection. In non-vaccinated individuals, AZD2816 will be given as two doses, four or twelve weeks apart, or given as a second dose following a first dose of AstraZeneca --four weeks apart, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
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