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2024 US Presidential elections: Nikki Haley officially ends her campaign, says Trump has yet to win over her supporters

OpIndia Staff - 7 March, 2024

Haley’s withdrawal from the Presidential elections came after Trump’s overwhelming victory on Super Tuesday where he secured almost all states

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25 Hindu families from Bangladesh seeking refuge in West Bengal after poll violence: Report

OpIndia Staff - 5 March, 2024

Around 25 families, totalling 100 individuals, have reportedly crossed over from Bangladesh into West Bengal owing to poll violence there.

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Joe Biden administration has imported over 3 lakh illegal immigrants into US through ‘secret flights’ in 2023, reveals lawsuit

OpIndia Staff - 5 March, 2024

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) allowed the mass migration of illegal immigrants to US cities through chartered flights from foreign countries.

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Bangladesh: Hindu priest murdered in Gopalganj, temple looted but no arrests so far

OpIndia Staff - 5 March, 2024

A preliminary investigation into the matter suggested that Hashilata Biswas was killed during the theft.

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‘My body my choice’: France makes abortion a constitutional right, parliament votes overwhelmingly in favour

ANI - 5 March, 2024

Notably, after the US Supreme Court in 2022 reversed the Roe v. Wade ruling that recognised women's constitutional right to abortion, a campaign was started in France to explicitly protect the right in its basic law.

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Assembly resolution for freedom of Kashmiris: Shehbaz Sharif becomes PM of bankrupt Pakistan and immediately rakes up Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 4 March, 2024

Shehbaz Sharif warned the House that Pakistan was facing an alarming debt crisis so bad that even the expenditures of the National Assembly were being paid after borrowing money.

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US: One killed, 12 injured in shooting incident at Mississippi club; 66 cases of mass shootings recorded so far in 2024

ANI - 4 March, 2024

So far this year, there have been 66 mass shooting incidents in the US, according to the Gun Violence Archive, according to CNN report.

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Canada: Justin Trudeau’s event with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in Toronto cancelled as they could not enter the venue due to pro-Palestine protests

ANI - 3 March, 2024

An event in Toronto where Canadian PM Justin Trudeau was scheduled to host his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, was cancelled after hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the venue

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Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif, brother of Nawaz Sharif, set to become PM despite his party getting defeated by Imran Khan’s independents in the election

ANI - 3 March, 2024

Shehbaz Sharif will face Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-nominated Omar Ayub Khan in the contest scheduled to be held in the newly constituted National Assembly

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