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January 22, 2025 4:16 PM

What is fluoride and why is it added to the US water supply?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has said Trump will call for an end to adding fluoride to public water supplies. Trump has not announced a position but said it is possib...

January 22, 2025 3:04 PM

Nepal sharply hikes permit fee for Everest climbers

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials said on Wednesday. Income from permit fees and other ...

January 22, 2025 2:55 PM

China families appeal to free relatives held by scam gangs in Myanmar

The abduction and cross-border rescue had all the makings of the kind of action script struggling Chinese actor Wang Xing had hoped to land – only not as a reality star. Wang, 22, flew to Bangkok earlier this month after getting an unsolicited off...

January 22, 2025 1:07 PM

India and China should jointly maintain peace and tranquility in border areas: Chinese diplomat

Wang Lei, Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy in India, on Tuesday expressed China's readiness to work with India "in the spirit of looking to the future and pursuing win-win cooperation to invest their resources into development and revitalizat...

January 22, 2025 11:10 AM

Zelenskiy says security guarantee would need at least 200,000 peacekeepers ⁩

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is seeking a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that at least 200,000 European peacekeepers would be needed to prevent a new Russian attack after any ceasefire deal. The Ukrainian l...

January 22, 2025 10:43 AM

Trump escalates campaign to dismantle government diversity programs

U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his assault on diversity programs on Tuesday by pressuring the private sector to join the initiative, ordering aviation officials to review diversity hires and telling employees of DEI government offices and prog...

January 22, 2025 3:16 PM

EAM Jaishankar discusses regional, global issues with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in first bilateral meeting

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held his first bilateral meeting with newly-appointed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, where they reviewed the extensive India-US partnership and discussed a range of regional and global issues. The meeting to...

January 21, 2025 8:23 PM

My priority on foreign policy is to keep America safe: US President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump, while signing executive orders in his Oval Office on Tuesday, said that he may consider ordering US special forces into Mexico to take out cartels. "Could happen, stranger things have happened," Trump remarked. Trump took ...

January 21, 2025 3:51 PM

India and France to deepen ties in high-end technology sectors

India and France held Foreign Office Consultations in Paris on Monday and agreed to expand their bilateral partnership in high-end technology sectors. The two nations conducted a comprehensive review of the progress made in various aspects of their b...

January 21, 2025 1:32 PM

Trump cancels sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rescinded sanctions imposed by the former Biden administration on far-right Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of being involved in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, t...

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