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Srinagar, Feb 21 (UNI) Weather conditions in Kashmir improved on Friday after higher reaches received light to moderate snowfall, while the plains were lashed by heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours, officials said. According to the Meteorological Centre Srinagar, the weather is expected to remain dry with partly cloudy skies until February 23. However,…

Islamabad, Feb 21 (UNI) Eight people were killed and two others injured when a minivan plunged into an open drainage channel in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province early Friday, local police said. The accident took place in the Kasur district when the minivan carrying members of a music group was returning from a wedding function and…

Panama City, Feb 19 (UNI) The system of collecting toll from ships in the Panama Canal has proven its effectiveness for 25 years of work, and there is no point in changing it now, Boris Moreno, vice president for operations at the Panama Canal, told Sputnik. “We see no need in changing the system because…

Washington, Feb 19 (UNI) Officials from the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attended meetings at the Pentagon last week, CNN reported, citing a source. On February 7, US President Donald Trump said that he tasked Elon Musk, who is in charge of DOGE, with checking the Pentagon’s spending. “Some DOGE personnel attended meetings in…

New York, Feb. 19 (UNI) U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt blows to thousands of civil servants in the past few days, but the cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, coming on the heels of the coronavirus pandemic, the worst public health crisis…

Washington, Feb 19 (UNI) The US Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Howard Lutnick as the Secretary of Commerce. During the confirmation vote, 51 senators supported Lutnick’s nomination, while 45 spoke out against him. US President Donald Trump nominated Lutnick in November, more than two months before his inauguration. Lutnick is the CEO of Cantor…

Washington, Feb 19 (UNI) US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the talks between the US and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia were “very good.” “They were very good. Russia wants to do something,” Trump told reporters. He pointed out that Russia wants to stop “the savage barbarianism.” Trump compared pictures from the battlefields…

Rabat, Feb. 19 (UNI) Morocco and France signed several agreements here on Tuesday to strengthen cultural cooperation, covering areas such as film, artificial intelligence, cultural heritage protection, and video game development. The signing took place on the final day of French Culture Minister Rachida Dati’s three-day working visit. At a press conference after the signing…

Sydney, Feb. 19 (UNI) Two people have died and four more have been hospitalized after a house fire in western Sydney in Australia’s state of New South Wales (NSW). Emergency services were called to the fire in the suburb of Heckenberg, about 30 kilometers west of central Sydney, at about 12:40 a.m. local time on…

Jakarta, Feb. 19 (UNI) An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province early Wednesday, but it did not trigger large waves, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency reported. The agency initially recorded the quake’s magnitude as 5.9 before revising it downward. The tremors occurred at 6:39 a.m. Jakarta time…