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ISTANBUL—Ukrainian sea drones attacked an oil tanker sanctioned by the U.S. for working for the Russian military, potentially bringing the war into a new phase that threatens Russia’s vital shipping lanes in the Black Sea.

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unemployment rate fell to 3.5% in July, the Labor Department said Friday. That is just a tick above a half-century low, showing a limited pool from which to hire. Wages grew a historically high 4.4% in July from a year earlier, well above prepandemic rates and another sign of workers’ strong bargaining power.

Narendra Modi led government, while tensions in the north eastern state refuses to die down. On Saturday fresh violence in Bishnupur caused three people to die, according to Manipur Police. Chief Minister and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader N Biren Singh and the central government has come under fire after a video surfaced on social media showing two Kuki Zo women being paraded naked by a mob of Meitei men.

Nitin Desai, known to have created epic sets for acclaimed Bollywood films and TV shows such as 'Lagaan', 'Devdas', 'Jodhaa Akbar' and 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', was cremated with police honours on Friday evening at ND Film Studio in Karjat. ETimes reported that the cremation arrangements included a police gun salute in the presence of Raigad Superintendent of Police, Somnath Gharge. The last rites were attended by prominent politicians like Vinod Tawde and Kirit Somaiya, along with several film personalities like Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and more.

F1 visa is opening up at various consulates in India, giving hope to students who want to pursue their Masters in United States. Some of these students have faced rejections in the past and hope that they will be able to finally get their hands on the visa. «I have deferred my admission twice since last year as my visa got rejected a couple of times. In my desperation, I even went to Vietnam for a visa interview, but even there my visa was rejected,» said Rakesh P, who is now set to travel to New York on August 14 to TOI. He attended a visa interview in New Delhi recently and has been approved to study in the US, on his third attempt. Another candidate, Vijay M, said: «I have been appearing for interviews since June last year. I deferred my admission five times. Finally, my visa has been approved now and I will be travelling next week.» Vijay too appeared for his last interview from Chennai. US student visas grew by the largest annual margin seen in over a decade, in line to becoming the highest single-year total of F-1 visas since 2016.

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Switzerland rejected 13.2 per cent of all visa applications filed by Indian nationals in 2022, Schengen Statics showed. The same data also showed that 106,025 applications filed by Indians received a positive response. Indians are listed as the 30th nationality in the list of those with rejection rates. Nationalities whose visa applications were rejected the most include Pakistani, Ghanaian, and Congolese nationals. The rejection rates of Pakistani nationals were the highest – 55.1 per cent, showing that more than half of applications for visas got rejected. Ghanaians and Congolese had a rejection rate of 46.5 and 41.5 per cent respectively, while the other nationalities in top 5 included Algerians and Argentinians with 39.9 and 35 per cent rejection rates, respectively. Recently, in an article SchengenVisaInfo.com said that the Swiss embassy in New Delhi has declared its temporary suspension of Schengen visa applications for Indian tour groups until October. Clarifying the same, Swiss embassy in Delhi issued a statement saying that it has not suspended Schengen visa appointments for Indian tour groups and has almost 800 daily appointments through the end of September 2023. The mission asserted that people-to-people contact is at the core of Swiss-Indian relationship.

Missouri plans to spend $50 million on railroad crossing improvements in response to a 2022 fatal Amtrak derailment

Cardi B will not face criminal charges over an incident in which she threw her microphone at a member of her audience, police in Las Vegas said Thursday. Detectives launched a battery probe into the «WAP» star's actions after she retaliated when a concert-goer chucked a liquid at her. Footage posted on social media shows the «Money» singer recoiling after someone close to the stage splashed the contents of a cup in her direction. In the clips, Cardi B can be seen pausing briefly, before flinging the microphone back in the same direction. However, some videos online appear to show the mic making contact with a different member of the audience.Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Monday that a woman had contacted them to report a battery, and that they had begun an investigation.

The weekend is here, and so is the list of the top OTT release of this week. The top shows on the list are Guardians of the Galaxy, Dayaa, The Hunt for Veerappan, etc. The detailed list consists of some more shows and movies of different genres.

₹300 per kilogram in the coming days and the prices of other vegetables are also likely to shoot up. Tomato prices have been under pressure for more than a month now. Besides, rain fury has worsened the supply, causing further price increases.

Americans are worried there will be another electoral crisis in 2024 because the aftermath of 2020 continues to reverberate through the nation’s politics. Many Republicans refuse to acknowledge Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, saying they have lost faith in the electoral system. They also have doubts that 2024 will deliver a legitimate winner, while Democrats worry that Republicans will contest an outcome that doesn’t go their way.

Supreme Court has stayed a Madras High Court order that declared as «null and void» the 2019 election of expelled AIADMK member P Ravindhranath from Tamil Nadu's Theni parliamentary constituency. A bench of justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta admitted the appeal filed by Ravindhranath against the high court order for hearing and issued notice to P Milany, who filed the petition challenging his election from the Theni constituency.

SoftBank is suing social app IRL for fraud related to fake user base and growth, asking $150 million in damages. In May 2021, SoftBank paid $150 million to purchase IRL shares based on IRL's valuation at $1 billion.

Floodwaters from Typhoon Doksuri continued to deluge farms and cities in northeast China into the weekend, with the country's disaster relief systems struggling to contain the aftermath of one of the strongest storms in years. Almost 15,000 residents were moved out of the city of Shulan in corn-growing Jilin province, where one person was dead and four others missing, according to state media. Rain has fallen continuously in Shulan since Aug.

Union Square Park where he planned to give away video game consoles descended into mayhem, drawing a crowd estimated at several thousand young people. In addition to the riot count, the livestreamer, Kai Carlo Cenat III, was expected to be charged with unlawful assembly and, potentially, other crimes, Jeffrey Maddrey, the New York Police Department's chief of department, said at a news conference late Friday. The episode, which began shortly after 3 p.m.

Amazon Prime Video has announced the release of a new film Red, White & Royal Blue on 11 August. The American romantic comedy film directed by Matthew Lopez, is based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Casey McQuiston. The film stars Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine as the son of the President of the United States and a British prince, respectively, who fall in love.

Shaktikanta Das, the six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will meet for three days (8-10 August) and the decision would be announced on 10 August at 10 am by the Governor. The central bank has kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.5% since February this year. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das will announce the MPC's decision on Thursday, August 10 at 10 am while the policy press conference will be telecast at 12 noon.

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Ukraine, the fog of war plagues soldiers. And far from the fighting, a related and just as disorienting miasma afflicts those who seek to understand what's happening in the vast war. Disinformation, misinformation and absent information all cloud civilians’ understanding.