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The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed a resolution calling for sanctions on Hong Kong officials and for the city’s special trade status to be revoked in protest of former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s conviction in a national security trial. At the plenary session in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, 503 parliament members voted in favour of the non-binding resolution, with only nine voting against it. There were 100 abstentions. Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct...

Former Husnabad MLA V. Sathish Kumar accused Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar of seeking political gains by proposing mandal demergers. He warned of public protests and urged voters to back BRS candidates in upcoming municipal polls

A deadly storm this week dumped nearly six months of rain on the Greek capital, Athens, in less than a day, one of the country’s top weather experts said on Thursday. Wednesday’s storm lashed the country and left two dead, with disaster crews spending Thursday cleaning up debris. Kostas Lagouvardos, research director at the National Observatory in Athens, said the “extreme” weather phenomenon had dumped up to 170 mm (6.7 inches) of rain on the capital. That amounted to “about 40 per cent of the...

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