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Prose and cons of a beloved city

India, April 26 -- How does one remember a city? How does one pay homage to a place that was part of one's being; its sights, sounds and smells, its very air, embedded in the bones? I just finished re... Read More


The many moods of Thundercat

India, April 26 -- At 41, Thundercat is one of those musicians whose name, or rather whose work, we encounter more often than we realise. Stephen Lee Bruner, to use his given name, is a bassist, produ... Read More


First-

India, April 26 -- A mong the earliest surviving pieces of writing is a sort of bar tab. About 5,300 years ago, in the city of Uruk in present-day Iraq, a man named Kushim was in charge of a storage f... Read More


U.S. won't renew Iran, Russian oil waivers: Bessent

Washington, April 26 -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the US does not plan to renew a waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil and petroleum products that are currently at sea. ... Read More


Strait near-empty with few Iran ships moving

London, April 26 -- The Strait of Hormuz remains largely empty of merchant ships, with only a few Tehran-linked vessels moving through the waterway, following a tense week that saw Iranian gunboat att... Read More


Iran resumes commercial flights from Tehran airport

Cairo, April 26 -- Iran resumed commercial flights from Tehran's international airport on Saturday for the first time since the conflict with the US and Israel began about two months ago, AP reported.... Read More


Lancet declined U.S. govt ask on Covid-19 origins

BARCELONA, April 26 -- Leading medical journal The Lancet will decline a request to provide evidence for a US Senate inquiry into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, its editor-in-chief Richard Hort... Read More


Khamenei rules via secret human chain

Tehran, April 26 -- Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has remained largely absent from the public eye since assuming leadership following the death of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamen... Read More


US can deny green card over political views

New Delhi, April 26 -- The Trump administration has ordered US government agencies to deny green cards to immigrants that express views critical of the Israeli government or its policies. Green cards ... Read More


US hunting mines to reopen Hormuz

WASHINGTON/berlin, April 26 -- Donald Trump says the US Navy is clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital sea route for oil shipments whose disruption is increasingly threatening the g... Read More