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US President Donald Trump today defended his having hailed a US and allied strike in Syria as “Mission Accomplished.” The phrase immediately evoked former president George W Bush’s premature Iraq victory speech on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. A banner proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” loomed in the background as Bush declared the end of major ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Uttarakhand Urban Development Minister Madan Kaushik has been awarded Life Time Achievement and Bharat Gaurav Award by Sanskriti Yuva Sanstha. he was awarded this award for his achievements in social, cultural and political fields with Life Time Achievement and ‘Bharat Gaurav’ award. The award was received by his son Ayush Kaushik as his representative at a function ...

The UN World Tourism Organization said it has appointed FC Barcelona’s Argentine star Lionel Messi as an ambassador to promote responsible tourism. “During my travels I have had the opportunity to know other cultures and societies as well as other ways to see the world and this is very enriching,” Messi said in a statement released by the Madrid-based United ...

Millions of French travellers suffered a second day of major disruption today as rail workers pressed on with rolling strikes that pose one of the toughest challenges yet to President Emmanuel Macron. Only one in seven high-speed trains and one in five regional trains were running in stoppages set to continue two days out of every five until June 28, ...

China’s defunct Tiangong 1 space station mostly burned up on re-entry Monday into the atmosphere over the central South Pacific, Chinese space authorities said. The experimental space laboratory re-entered around 8:15am, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said. Scientists monitoring the craft’s disintegrating orbit had forecast the craft would mostly burn up and would pose only the slightest of risks ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Public sex is no big deal now, with people getting down to business in the middle of restaurants and even local parks. Still one would think there are some locations where they would agree to draw the line, but no, apparently places like courtrooms aren’t off limits either. A woman performed a sex act on her boyfriend ...

A UN official in Syria says aid groups need 150 million to provide urgent relief to a quarter-million people recently displaced by separate offensives by the Syrian government outside Damascus and by Turkish-led forces in the north. UN coordinator Ali al-Za’atari says at least 80,000 people have fled the government’s offensive in the eastern Ghouta suburbs, where shelling and airstrikes ...

India has welcomed the launch of an ambitious decade for action on water, expressing hope that concerted action by the international community will help in meeting the challenges of ensuring sustainable solutions to the requirement of clean water. “We welcome (the) initiative to launch the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development on the World Water Day,” India’s ...

Vladimir Putin cruised to victory in Russia`s presidential election on Sunday, giving him at least another six years in power as Moscow`s relations with the West become increasingly strained. Putin, who has ruled Russia for almost two decades, recorded his best ever election performance with more than 76 percent of the vote, but the opposition cried foul. Monitors reported ballot ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and black-hole theorist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book “A Brief History of Time,” has died. He was 76. Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in England in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a spokesman for his family said in an emailed statement. “We ...