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November 5, 2024 1:08 PM

Pakistan amends law to extend powerful army chief’s service tenure

Pakistan on Monday passed an amendment to a law that will extend the terms of the heads of the armed forces to five years from three, in a rowdy parliamentary session opposed by jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's party. Extending the term of commanders including Army Chief General Asim Munir wou...

November 5, 2024 12:47 PM

South Korea fines Meta about $15 million over collection of user data.

South Korea has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay 21.62 billion won ($15.67 million) in fines after finding it had collected sensitive user data and given it to advertisers without a legal basis, Seoul's data protection agency said. The U.S. tech giant obtained information from about 980...

November 5, 2024 10:47 AM

Sensex, Nifty open lower amid U.S. election uncertainty

India’s benchmark indices opened in the red on Tuesday as the too-close-to-call U.S. presidential election kept investors on edge. Foreign investor outflows further weighed on the markets. The BSE Sensex dropped 240 points, or 0.13%, to 78,542.16, while the Nifty 50 fell 78 points, or 0.06%, open...

November 5, 2024 10:41 AM

Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in India to pray for her election victory

Residents of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington. Harris' maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, was born more than a cent...

November 5, 2024 10:24 AM

Australia, India say US election result won’t impact Quad group

Australia and India's foreign ministers said on Tuesday they were confident the Quad group of the U.S., India, Australia and Japan would continue to cooperate in the Indo-Pacific region regardless of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong told reporte...

November 4, 2024 5:37 PM

Americans hungry for weight-loss drugs grapple with supply and insurance hurdles

Americans are still eagerly seeking prescriptions for Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk's weight-loss and diabetes drugs but cannot always fill them because of supply issues and insurance hurdles, according to their doctors. Those frustrations, along with the medicines' high cost, are pushing patients to ...

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