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The 16-year-old worker killed in a Mississippi poultry plant earlier this month is the third teenager to die in a workplace accident so far this summer

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is announcing a major Cabinet shake-up as he readies his team for the next federal election

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Russia's defence minister was photographed this week viewing banned North Korean ballistic missiles with leader Kim Jong Un at a military expo in Pyongyang, signalling deeper ties between the two countries as they face off with the United States. As Russia's isolation over its war in Ukraine has grown, it has seen increasing value in North Korea. For North Korea's part, relations with Russia haven't always been as warm as they were during the heady days of the Soviet Union, but now the country is reaping clear benefits from Moscow's need for friends.

Deepti Naval and Kalki Koechlin's drama movie 'Goldfish' will be released in theatres across the country on August 25, the makers announced on Wednesday. Featuring Naval and Koechlin as a mother and daughter duo, the London-set film deals with the themes of memory and identity. It is directed by Pushan Kripalani and presented by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. «Anamika (Koechlin), the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged mother Sadhana (Naval) because she is suffering from the onset of dementia. Ana returns to a neighbourhood she barely remembers, to a woman who sometimes doesn't remember her,» according to the official plotline. 'Goldfish' also features Rajit Kapur, Bharti Patel, Gordon Warnecke, Ravin Ganatra and Shanaya Rafaat. The movie will be released in the US as well on August 25. Kashyap said he loved the film when he watched it during the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in October 2022. «The relationship between Kalki and Deepti Naval ,with some brilliant writing and performances, directed with so much nuance ,all the incredible supporting performances.

London | ASX-listed junior miner Adriatic Metals has almost doubled its estimate for the size of its silver-zinc-lead-gold mine in Bosnia-Herzegovina, claiming that this catapults the mine into the global top tier.

MSRTC vice chairman and managing director Shekhar Channe informed that the bus belongs to the Aheri depot in Gadchiroli district and the action is being taken against the officer concerned. Another MSRTC official stated that an officer of the mechanical engineering department in Gadchiroli has been suspended for being responsible for the poor maintenance of the bus.

officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday. David Grusch testified that he «absolutely» believes the government is in possession of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs — which has replaced the term UFO in official parlance — as well as remains of their non-human operators.

the future of the semiconductor industry in both India and Gujarat," the release further noted. The Semicon India event will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 28 and will attended by delegates from 23 countries.

Narendra Modi has become the seventh incumbent Prime Minister in the country after Indira Gandhi to face a no-confidence motion ahead of the General election. Yesterday, Lok Speaker Om Birla accepted the Opposition's no-confidence motion brought by Congress party MP Gaurav Gogoi against the Centre in order to persuade PM Modi, to make a statement in the House on the Manipur violence that has stalled the Parliament for five consecutive days.

Niger government on Wednesday following an apparent coup in the fragile state. Disgruntled members of the elite Presidential Guard sealed off access to President Mohamed Bazoum's residence and offices in the capital Niamey, and after talks broke down «refused to release» him, a presidential source said.

Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX is poised to launch the world's largest commercial communications satellite today. A Falcon Heavy rocket will launch Maxar Technologies' largest ever satellite called Jupiter 3, according to Space.com.

Global food markets have been thrown into chaos yet again — not only because of Russia’s decision to pull out of the Black Sea grain deal, but also India’s announcement that it would ban the export of many varieties of rice. The partial exit of the rice market’s largest trading nation, with about a 40% share of exports, has led to fears that food inflation will race out of control, particularly in countries of the Global South that are already struggling with high debt levels and inflated food and fuel bills. Even if it is soon lifted, the export ban is a big mistake for India, both economically and geopolitically.

State Antony Blinken on Thursday pressed African leaders attending a summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin to demand answers about a grain crisis that has propelled poorer nations towards crisis. Speaking ahead of a Russia-Africa sitdown in Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg, Blinken insisted African leaders knew rising food costs, grain and fertiliser shortages were a direct result of Putin's war in Ukraine. Several African leaders including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are expected to attend the Konstantinovsky Palace summit.

Kim Jong Un met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to discuss military issues and the regional security environment, state media said Thursday as the country celebrated the 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim and Shoigu talked Wednesday in the capital, Pyongyang, and reached a consensus on unspecified «matters of mutual concern in the field of national defense and security and on the regional and international security environment.» The report did not specify what was discussed.

Platforms such as winbuzz.com and gamer777.com have roped in micro-influencers to reach out to Indian gamers. They are offering these influencers up to Rs 1,000 per post on social media platforms such as X (Twitter), Instagram and Facebook, asking users to switch to their platforms, ET has learnt. “They (offshore players) are taking advantage of the fact that gaming companies are in a Catch-22 situation right now as far as GST is concerned,” a senior executive at an Indian gaming company told ET.

New Delhi: Unseasonal rains in the June quarter unfavorably impacted The Coca-Cola Company’s business in India but the beverage major kept its growth outlook for the market “intact". “India business was unfavorably impacted by unseasonable rain and cooler temperatures in the quarter. However, the growth outlook remains intact," James Quincey, Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company said during the company’s post earnings call on Wednesday.

MUMBAI : British officials negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) are advocating bottling their whisky ‘in transit’ in a third country for reasons related to cost, logistics, and ‘premium-ness’ of the products, a person aware of the development said. Negotiations on alcoholic beverages assume significance as India considers opening its vast market to countries such as the UK, Australia, Canada, and the European Union (EU) under the FTA route. India emerged as the world’s largest consumer of scotch whisky—a key UK export—last year.

GAIL is planning to tie up 7-8 million tonnes per annum of long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) from diverse sources as it bets big on domestic gas demand and aims to play a leading role in India’s transformation into a gas-based economy, its chairman has said. “GAIL is committed to ensuring that the domestic demand is well supplied and protected from price shocks. To do the same, GAIL is looking to grow its long-term volumes by at least 50% or 7-8 million metric tonnes per annum in a staggered manner till 2030,” GAIL chairman and managing director Sandeep Kumar Gupta told ET in an interview. The company is in talks with suppliers in several countries including the US, Qatar, the UAE, and other countries east of India, he added. Gupta, the former finance chief of Indian Oil Corp, took over as the chairman and managing director of GAIL last October in the middle of a global energy crisis that had cut off afifth of its LNG supplies after a former German unit of Russia’s Gazprom stopped supplying. “We managed well. The supply cut to our customers was much smaller as we brought in our US volumes to meet their demand,” said Gupta. After the global markets cooled off this year, the supplies resumed but GAIL has learnt its lessons.

Jammu and Kashmir in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, including on representation of Kashmiri migrants, displaced persons from Pakistan-occupied J&K (PoJK) and Scheduled Tribes in the legislative assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 empowers the lieutenant governor to nominate two members, including a woman, from the Kashmiri migrant community and one member from the displaced persons from PoJK to the J&K legislative assembly.

retail facilities attempt to fight ecommerce rivals in a market increasingly driven by deep discounting. While such retail space, where brands are offered on discount round the year, is popular globally, the segment is unorganised in India. «We have opened one such mall in Delhi's Jasola where all the premium brands have their factory outlets.