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Priyanka Chopra shares sneak peek of `Citadel 2` shoot on Instagram
17Nov By No Comments
Entertainment, Movies

Priyanka Chopra shares sneak peek of `Citadel 2` shoot on Instagram

Priyanka Chopra has proved yet again that she`s a master of balancing work and personal life. The actress has got back to shoot after celebrating Diwali and Halloween. The actress, who is currently shooting for her series `Citadel 2`, has been keeping fans updated on her busy schedule through her Instagram Stories. The actress on Saturday gave fans a sneak peek into her "working Saturday" with a video from the `Citadel 2` set. She also posted a selfie from her car, as she looked stylish in a black jacket. With her hair tied back and minimal makeup, she looked fresh yet fierce as she wrapped up another demanding day on set. On the professional front, Priyanka, who is currently busy filming the next season of her series `Citadel` also has other exciting projects lined up, including `Head...
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Trudeau heads to G20 summit in Brazil. Here’s what’s on the agenda – National
17Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Trudeau heads to G20 summit in Brazil. Here’s what’s on the agenda – National

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to leave Peru this morning for the G20 summit in Brazil as Ottawa seeks its place in a rift between the United States and booming economies in the developing world. The Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum with leaders ranging from long-standing allies such as French President Emmanuel Macron to populist firebrands like Argentine President Javier Milei.They’re meeting in Rio de Janeiro to try to find common ground on issues ranging from solving global hunger to setting rules around digital currencies.The summit comes less than two weeks after American voters decided to send Donald Trump back to the White House next year. During the campaign, Trump promised to pull the U.S. out of global institutions and raise tariffs on foreign goods.John Kirton, h...
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Russia fires more than 200 missiles and drones at Ukraine in largest attack since August | World News
17Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Russia fires more than 200 missiles and drones at Ukraine in largest attack since August | World News

Several people have been killed after Russia launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since August.More than 200 missiles and drones were deployed, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as he condemned a "massive combined strike" on "all regions".Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine's foreign minister, said "peaceful cities" and "sleeping civilians" were targeted.Ukraine war - latest updatesMoscow is focused on the "energy infrastructure throughout Ukraine" and is trying to "intimidate" Ukrainians with "cold and lack of light", Mr Zelenskyy said.The president added: "The whole world sees and knows that we are defending ourselves against absolute evil, which does not understand any language but force."We need unity [and] the world needs unity. Only together can we stop this evil." ...
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Russia pounds Ukraine’s power grid in ‘massive’ air strike
17Nov By No Comments
World News

Russia pounds Ukraine’s power grid in ‘massive’ air strike

By Tom Balmforth and Dan Peleschuk, Reuters A car and buildings destroyed as the result of a drone attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Photo: Supplied / Ukrainian Emergency Service Russia stages first big missile attack since August Severe damage to power system reported as winter sets in Attack piles pressure on Ukraine at critical juncture Attack prompted Poland to scramble its air force Russia unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, firing 120 missiles and 90 drones in a sweeping attack that killed at least seven people and caused "severe damage" to the power system, officials said. Ukrainians have been bracing for weeks for an attack on the hobbled energy system, fearing crippling damage that would cause long blackouts as winter sets in...
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Under siege in Ukraine, schools go underground to keep life as normal as possible for children | World News
17Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Under siege in Ukraine, schools go underground to keep life as normal as possible for children | World News

If you know a teacher, or you are a teacher, you'll understand that many in the profession consider their jobs one of the best in the world, while also acknowledging it can be one of the most stressful.Teaching in a war zone takes it to another level on both fronts.But imagine teaching in a war zone in say the London Underground or the Paris or New York metros?Follow latest: Ukraine live blog Image: Children in their underground school Well, that's exactly what is happening in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city - a city attacked by Russia on a constant basis.In 2023, the authorities banned children from being taught in regular school buildings here because of the threat they were under from missile strikes.So Kharkiv ci...
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Trump is unlikely to take Biden’s advice on China – and it could change the world | World News
17Nov By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Business

Trump is unlikely to take Biden’s advice on China – and it could change the world | World News

As the two most powerful countries in the world, the relationship between the United States and China is the most consequential of all bilateral ties.Any change in interactions and behaviour by either side does not just impact security, economic activity and trade in Washington and Beijing, but also affects the rest of the planet. President Xi Jinping chose to make this point publicly as he said hello - and presumably goodbye - to Joe Biden when the two men met on the sidelines of an economic forum in Peru in what was likely their last face-to-face sit down before the US leader hands the keys to the White House over to Donald Trump. Image: Joe Biden and Xi Jinping shaking hands in Peru earlier this week. Pic: Reuters "As tw...
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Xi Jinping tells Luxon face-to-face that New Zealand should see China as a partner not a threat
17Nov By No Comments
World News

Xi Jinping tells Luxon face-to-face that New Zealand should see China as a partner not a threat

NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon meets with China's President, Xi Jinping in Lima. Photo: Pool / Chris Skelton Analysis - Consider China an 'opportunity and partner rather than a challenge or threat' - that was the message Xi Jinping delivered to Christopher Luxon at their face-to-face meeting, according to Chinese state-run media. It's an insight into how China is pitching itself to the Asia-Pacific region and beyond as threats of worldwide tariffs from the incoming Donald Trump Administration put small trade-dependent economies on edge. While the prime minister said Trump's promised tariffs weren't specifically raised with him in any of his roughly a dozen bilaterals and pull-asides on the margins of the APEC Summit in Peru, he did say increasing protectionism and the breakdown of ...
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Why I’ve already put up my Christmas tree (and you should too)
17Nov By No Comments
Life Style

Why I’ve already put up my Christmas tree (and you should too)

I don’t know why it took me so long to realise that doing it all in November was a lot more fun, partly because you’re not supposed to - which says a lot about my personality - but also because the last-minute Christmas rush-around for presents is never as festive as we tell ourselves it’ll be. Last year, having travelled a lot for work in the months leading up to it and finally settling back home a week before the big day, it seemed pointless to get a tree, so I didn’t. My flat looked like it did any other month of the year, and I thought that would be liberating, to shun silly commercialism and refuse Christmas expense completely, but it wasn’t. It was just kind of sad. Instead of going back to my parents’ house in Bath, it being up in the air as to whether my brother and his new wife wo...
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How dominant is right-wing online culture?
17Nov By No Comments
World News

How dominant is right-wing online culture?

Podcaster Joe Rogan and President-elect Donald Trump pose for a photo during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on 16 November 2024 in New York City. Photo: SARAH STIER Dominant left-wing cultural values are ceding ground online to right wing ideologies, Times columnist James Marriott says. Speaking to Sunday Morning Marriott - who is also a book reviewer - said the rise of podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Theo Von was a sign of a potential shift away from the ostensibly dominant "overwhelmingly liberal" arts and cultural sphere. "This new popular culture that is more right wing... has become apparent to us in the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump, who, as part of his election campaign, went on an awful lot of right-wing podcasts," he said. "I think this was pretty impor...
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Donald Trump defence nominee Pete Hegseth’s thin CV, tattoos under scrutiny
17Nov By No Comments
World News

Donald Trump defence nominee Pete Hegseth’s thin CV, tattoos under scrutiny

By Adam Plowright, AFP Pete Hegseth is president-elect Donald Trump's nominee for defence secretary. Photo: Getty Images / Brett Carlsen Facing questions about an alleged sexual assault and medieval-themed tattoos linked to extremist groups, Donald Trump's defence secretary nominee Pete Hegseth would struggle to be confirmed for the job under normal circumstances. But these are not normal times in Washington. Hegseth, a Fox News host, was picked by Trump on Tuesday in one of several nominations that wrong-footed even some in his remodeled Republican Party and threw down a challenge to the Senate. To take up the position as head of the Pentagon and oversee 3.4 million employees, Hegseth will require confirmation from the upper house - and Trump is publicly pressuring lawmakers to show...
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