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Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Delhi-NCR in the past one week, leading to massive property damage and loss of lives. On the other hand, southern states such as Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Jharkhand, and Bihar and northeastern states such as Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya, etc are still facing a rain-deficient monsoon season, according to a report by Hindustan Times, Livemint's sister publication. According to the data from the India Meteorological Department, since the beginning of the monsoon season on 1 June, all southern states excluding Tamil Nadu have received lower-than-expected rainfall this year.

Larsen and Toubro's Kattupalli Shipyard near Chennai has qualified for the Master Shipyard Repair Agreement (MSRA) and the Indian conglomerate has signed an agreement with US Navy for repairing of vessels. The shipyard has been approved by the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard for repairing works. The Kattupalli Shipyard near Chennai is a major node in the Southern Defence Corridor which has been undertaking voyage repairs of the US Navy's Military Sealift Command vessels, a release said.

Beijing Youth Daily reported. Zhou’s accomplices were arrested soon after the crime, but he had managed to stay at large until the end of June when Hubei police apprehended him in the southern city of Guangzhou, where he had been hiding, the report said. A viral video showed that as police officers took Zhou away to board a train back to Hubei, he asked his wife to divorce him and remarry.

nuclear weapon, they would find the weapons stored in a state of incomplete assembly," Korda said. "They would need to be completed by installing specialised equipment and then unlocking permissive action links, and in order to do that they would need the cooperation of someone from the 12th Directorate" responsible for protecting Russia's nuclear arsenal. The report said, Budanov was the first official to suggest that Wagner fighters came close to acquiring nuclear weapons and further escalating an armed mutiny that has been widely interpreted as the biggest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin's power.  Wagner fighters drove in the direction of Voronezh-45 after peeling away from a larger convoy of heavy weaponry that was advancing along the M4 highway that runs north from Rostov, where the rebellion began.

Hong Kong leader John Lee says the city will ban marine products from “a large number prefectures” if Japan discharges treated radioactive wastewater into the sea

Ukraine's Energy Minister says the catastrophic collapse of a dam in southern Ukraine has made Kyiv worried that Russia might stage an attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to foment panic and quell Ukrainian advances on the frontline

Thai police say they have found the dismembered body of a missing German businessman inside a freezer inside a house in southern Thailand

The owner of the Los Angeles Times has sold the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has appealed to China not to let disagreements about trade and other irritants disrupt cooperation on climate change and other global challenges

Officials say twelve homes were evacuated in a Los Angeles-area city Saturday night after a major ground shift put them at risk of collapse

Iran's official news agency says a fire erupted at an oil refinery and injured eight firefighters in the country's south

Russia’s war on Ukraine will top the agenda when U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts meet on Tuesday and Wednesday

DAKAR: At least 300 people traveling from Senegal to Spain in three boats are missing, a Spanish aid group said Monday, raising concern about their fate along one of the deadliest sea routes for migrants. Two boats departed June 23 from Mbour, a coastal city in central Senegal, carrying about 100 people, and a third left the southern town of Kafountine four days later with approximately 200 people, according to Helena Maleno Garzon, coordinator for the aid group Walking Borders, which is known as Caminando Fronteras in Spanish. There has been no contact with the boats since their departures, she said.

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Rescuers were looking for survivors of a landslide Saturday that buried a highway construction site and killed at least one person in the central city of Yichang in Hubei province. Five people were injured, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the executive deputy mayor of Yichang, Ye Yang. Elsewhere, the weather agency issued an orange alert, its second-highest-level warning, for heat across southern China and much of the north and northeast. Temperatures above 40 C (104 F) were forecast in Beijing, the capital, and across central China to the southeastern coast. Heat above 37 to 39 C (99 to 102 F) was forecast in parts of populous Sichuan province in the southwest. Elsewhere, temperatures above 35 C (95 F) were expected in most of northern China, the rest of Sichuan and much of the south. The orange alert requires employers to make outdoor work as brief as possible. Despite that, delivery workers for restaurants and online retailers still were working.

Joe Biden confirmed the decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine as part of a military aid package worth $800 million. He acknowledged the difficulty of the decision but emphasised Ukraine's need for ammunition. He also stated that he had discussed the matter with allies beforehand.

Leslie Van Houten, who was found guilty of participating in two murders during the infamous 1969 killing spree orchestrated by cult leader Charles Manson, will be granted parole in the coming weeks, according to het attorney. The spokesperson for California Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed that he would not contest Van Houten's release. Now 73 years old, Van Houten has served over 50 years in prison for her involvement in two stabbing deaths at Manson's command in 1969. During the months of July and August in 1969, the Manson cult perpetrated a series of horrifying and brutal killings, instilling fear and terror throughout the Los Angeles region. These shocking crimes affected and unsettled the entire population of Southern California. One of the unfortunate victims was Sharon Tate, a talented actress and model who was married to director Roman Polanski. Her tragic fate at the hands of the Manson cult remains a deeply mourned loss within the entertainment industry and beyond.

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Shriram Housing Finance has raised $50 million in its maiden external commercial borrowing (ECB) as the lender is looking to diversify its funding source. Funds from the ECB will be used for the financing of affordable housing. The mortgage lender, which is part of the Shriram Group, has raised the fund from Canara Bank's London branch at 200 basis points over Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), a company official said.

London | Macquarie Group will pump an extra £550 million ($1 billion) into its British water utility Southern Water, as the country’s debt-heavy utilities sector struggles with rising costs and increasing political pressure to overhaul its infrastructure.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) — France's central bank head Francois Villeroy de Galhau pushed back on Sunday against a suggestion from some French economists to raise the European Central Bank's (ECB) 2% inflation target.