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FILE – President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg, Germany. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Trump is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska today, a momentous summit on American soil with a leader isolated by the West over the invasion of Ukraine. Trump, who pledged a quick end to the war in Ukraine during his 2024 campaign, projected confidence ahead of the Anchorage summit — but remained vague about potential outcomes. “Because of a certain relationship that he has with…

India’s purchase of Russian oil has risen to 2 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, as refiners continue to prioritise economic considerations in their sourcing decisions. As much as 38% out of an estimated 5.2 million barrels per day of crude oil imported in the first half of August came from Russia, according to global real-time data and analytics provider Kpler. Also read | Will India cave in to U.S. pressure on Russian oil? | Explained Imports from Russia at 2 million bpd were up from 1.6 million bpd in July. The increase in Russian flow was at the…

Poster of ‘Fallout’ Season 2. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Prime Video on Friday announced that the second season of its hit series Fallout will premiere in December 2025, with the story shifting to the iconic New Vegas setting.Based on the popular video game of the same name, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have.”Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and…

China kicked off a three-day long sports showcase for humanoid robots on Friday, looking to highlight progress in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries competing in the World Humanoid Robot Games.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO Robots will compete in sports such as football, track and field, and table tennis, as well as tackle robot-specific challenges from sorting medicines and handling materials to cleaning services. Teams come from countries including the United States, Germany, and Brazil, with 192 representing universities and 88 from private enterprises. Robots from Chinese companies including Unitree and Fourier, are among those competing. Story…

A new GOBankingRates report ranks cities where retirees can live well for less than $2,000 per month—without sacrificing sunshine. Fort Myers, Florida, and Raleigh, North Carolina, ranked in the list. Keep reading to see which destination was the named the best for good weather and low cost of living. While factors like cost of living and access to healthcare are crucial for many retirees planning to relocate, another important consideration is weather. Recently, GOBankingRates determined the top 25 communities with good weather, where retirees can live on a budget of $2,000 a month or less. The personal finance website analyzed…

Air Canada has started cancelling flights bracing for a near-total shutdown as a strike by thousands of flight attendants looms, threatening to disrupt travel plans for as many as 130,000 passengers a day. The union representing about 10,000 flight attendants issued a 72-hour strike notice on Wednesday, prompting the airline to issue a lockout notice in response, according to reports by news agencies AP and Reuters.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO The work stoppage is set to begin just before 1 am EDT (10:30 am IST) on Saturday, potentially grounding operations at the country’s largest carrier during peak summer travel. Mark Nasr,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address from the Red Fort, called for India to become self-reliant in energy and critical minerals, pointing to the opportunity cost of a high petroleum import bill. Modi also said the government has “opened the doors” of nuclear energy to the private sector, and aims to grow nuclear generation capacity tenfold by 2047.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO “We all know that we are dependent on many counties for energy, be it petrol, diesel, or gas. We have to spend lakhs of crores of rupees to import energy,” PM Modi said. “If we weren’t…

Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi’s sons Ayushmaan and Aaryamann have been appearing in their family’s vlogs for the past few months and in their latest family vlog, Ayushmaan shared with celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor that he actually started a small bakery when he was growing up. In the same chat, Archana’s son shared that he was one of the top-performing kids in his school and was placed in the top 100 in the world based on his scores in 12th standard and while everyone pushed him to join an Ivy League college, he stuck to his passion of creative…

LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 9: Brent Spiner plays Lt. Commander Data in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “The Big Goodbye.” Season 1, episode 11. Original air date January 9, 1988. CBS/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption CBS/Getty Images In this Back To School episode we consider the “List of Life”: the criteria that define what it is to be a living thing. Some are easy calls: A kitten is alive. A grain of salt is not. But what about the tricky cases, like a virus? Or, more importantly, what about futuristic android robots? As part of our Black…

‘Uttar Pradesh Vision 2047’ may be 22 years into the future. But for 27 hours – almost – more than 200 pairs of eyes did not lose sight of it.Starting 11.30 am on Wednesday till 2.10 pm Thursday, sustained on extra coffee machines, endless cups of tea and soup, a skipped dinner, stolen shuteyes, and some hidden “namkeen”, the MLAs and MLCs of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature sat through the marathon session planned by the Yogi Adityanath government for a debate on its proposal to “transform” the state. The Chief Minister kept the best for the last, wrapping up the…