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Hundreds of firefighters and volunteers in southern Greece are battling for a third day a large wildfire that has killed two people and devastated a large forested area

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The ITLF has announced closure of borders during 26 to 29 September, closure of schools, institutions and offices from September 27-29 and total shutdown on 28 September. ITLF has put all village volunteers and citizens to be on high alert. ITLF had announced the Manipur government had accumulated highly advanced MMG MK 2A1 weapons earlier this month. Recently, Kuldiep Singh, the state security advisor, made hints about an impending “attack” on September 28.

Refugees navigating resettlement often face a shared hurdle: poor machine translations and a short supply of interpreters knowledgeable in their less-serviced languages

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Fed Chair Jerome Powell entered a new phase in his campaign to softly land the U.S. economy, lowering interest rates Wednesday with an audacious half-point cut.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ryan Wesley Routh, the man arrested in Florida in connection with an apparent attempt to shoot Donald Trump, counted among his international projects a proposed “foreign legion" to help defend Taiwan against a potential assault from China. The Taiwan plan echoed Routh’s self-professed efforts to support the defense of Ukraine, in what he described in his LinkedIn profile as a mission to dedicate himself to “any monumental worthy cause to bring about real change in our world." There is no indication that Routh’s Taiwan ambitions ever materialized.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Scientists surprised themselves when they found they could instruct a version of ChatGPT to gently dissuade people of their beliefs in conspiracy theories—such as notions that covid was an attempt at population control or that 9/11 was an inside job. The most important revelation wasn’t about the power of AI, but about the workings of the human mind.

Trump Force Captains," the campaign has organized volunteers to engage with people who usually do not cast ballots in elections. Using this endeavor, they hope to reach out to a group that has a big say in how the election turns out, as per the reports of MSN.

Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after China's. In a decree published on the Kremlin's website, Putin ordered the overall size of the armed forces to be increased to 2.38 million people, of which he said 1.5 million should be active servicemen. According to data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a leading military think tank, such an increase would see Russia leapfrog the United States and India in terms of the number of active combat soldiers it has at its disposal and be second only to China in size. The IISS said Beijing has just over 2 million active duty service personnel.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THE LATEST attempt to assassinate Donald Trump, on September 15th, was only uncovered when a Secret Service agent spotted a gun barrel sticking out of a fence beside the golf course in Florida where Mr Trump was enjoying a round. Agents opened fire and a man sprang from the bushes.

Manipur is escalated by the involvement of militants. Police have found that out of six people killed on Saturday in Jiribam three belonged to Kuki militant outfitKuki Liberation Army (KLA), a group that is under the Suspension of Operations (SoO) pact with the central government and one from on ceasefire Meitei outfit UNLF (P). Six people were killed in Jiribam district on Saturday. Among those killed one was a civilian and the rest were armed people. Manipur police has stated in X, “In c/w the case of 06.09.2024, suspected Kuki militants had attacked Nungchappi village under Jiribam District resulting in death one senior citizen civilian identified as Yurembam Kulendra Singha (63) yrs S/O.

Kamala Harris has recently gained significant support in Georgia and North Carolina, prompting local Democratic leaders to believe she might achieve a double win in these Southern swing states for the first time since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Since her presidential campaign launch, over 52,000 volunteers have joined her efforts in these states. The influx has been so large that county party officials in places like Greensboro, North Carolina, describe their offices as chaotic, with up to 30 volunteers arriving daily and donors helping to fund neighborhood canvassers, as per the reports of Yahoo news.

Sandip Ghosh was remanded in eight-day police custody by Alipore Judges Court on Tuesday. This followed his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of financial misconduct. Three others were also detained alongside Ghosh, including his security guard and two vendors who supplied materials to the hospital. The arrest is connected to the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the body of a female medic, a victim of rape and murder, was discovered on August 9. The CBI's investigation stems from the Calcutta High Court's August 23 order, transferring the case from a state-formed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the federal agency. Ghosh was the second person arrested in connection with this case, following the earlier detention of a civic volunteer by the Kolkata Police. The opposition BJP asserted that this development exposed efforts by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government to cover up the former principal's wrongdoings. TMC leader Kunal Ghosh acknowledged that the state health department could have acted sooner to avoid the current situation.

Bangladesh, the student community, which led the people's uprising that resulted in the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, is channelling its revolutionary zeal into spearheading flood relief efforts for millions affected by the calamity. «This isn't just about relief; it's about making a difference, just like we did during the Monsoon Revolution,» said Rafiq, a student at Dhaka University, as he and fellow students formed a human chain at the heart of the campus, passing sacks of rice and other supplies hand to hand to load onto trucks bound for flood-stricken regions of Bangladesh. The student community across Bangladesh has risen to the occasion, demonstrating their ability to lead and mobilise resources in a time of national emergency. The recent floods, which have claimed several lives and affected nearly 5 million people, have spurred a remarkable wave of student-led relief efforts, transforming their recent revolutionary fervour into a crucial force for recovery.

By not submitting to a press interview in the month since becoming the Democratic choice for president, Kamala Harris set the stakes high for her talk with CNN's Dana Bash

CBI on Wednesday began the process of conducting a polygraph test on Kolkata Police ASI Anup Dutta to decipher his alleged links with Sanjay Roy, arrested in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had taken permission from a Kolkata court to conduct the polygraph test on Assistant Sub-Inspector Dutta, who was earlier questioned by the agency in the case. Dutta will be the eighth person to undergo a polygraph test in this case. According to the officials, Dutta, posted in the Kolkata Police Welfare Committee, had allegedly extended a number of favours to Roy, a traffic police volunteer.

Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games is how will the city get ready to welcome close to 300,000 people with special abilities who will be here to watch 4,400 athletes contesting across 23 disciplines spread over the next two weeks. Paris, unlike many other European cities, isn’t really friendly to the specially abled. To give a basic example, most metro stations still don’t have elevators, and some don’t have ramps and even toilets for the specially abled. Some of the venues—like the one used for beach volleyball, right in front of the Eiffel Tower—wasn’t meant for the specially abled during the Olympics that ended on August 11. However, its transformation has been amazing. The venue, which will now host blind football, looks completely different, having gone through a makeover. Adding to the comfort of the paraathletes, there are a lot more volunteers at the metro stations and ramps have come up at certain places.

technology that could make tens of thousands of personalized phone calls to voters using Diemer's talking points and sense of humor. His campaign agreed to try out the technology. But it turned out that the only thing voters hated more than a robocall was an AI-backed one. While Civox's AI program made almost 1,000 calls to voters in five minutes, nearly all of them hung up in the first few seconds when they heard a voice that described itself as an AI volunteer, Diemer said.

Sanctuary Wealth has strengthened its advisory network in the eastern US as a four-person breakaway team makes a leap for independence.

Digital Commerce (ONDC), the aggregator platform that runs on open-source technology, is set to launch insurance and mutual fund products in the next two months and will partner MasterCard for credit cards. ONDC also launched six-minute digital loans that will offer unsecured credit to salaried and non-salaried customers. “We have deployed a Marine app, one insurer and two more are coming,” said T Koshy, CEO, ONDC. “For health (insurance) also, we are live, but the partner doesn’t have the licence. The motor (insurance) should happen in the next month or so. And MF will go live next month. We want to hit the 100-200 transactions first.”

Security Force (CISF) are being deployed at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital following an order of the Supreme Court, official sources said on Wednesday. A day after the apex court's order, the Union home ministry wrote to the West Bengal chief secretary seeking deployment of the CISF at the state-run hospital. Subsequently, a decision has been taken for the deployment of the CISF, the sources said. Earlier in the morning, a CISF team, led by a DIG-rank officer, surveyed the hospital complex where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered earlier this month.