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Prominent Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer has arrived in Miami after being freed from a Cuban prison. Shortly after landing in the United States, the pro-democracy activist called for the release of hundreds of political prisoners held in Cuba. Earlier this month, the 55-year-old revealed that he had taken the “difficult decision” to go into…

Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter Janani Mohan/Yagappa Photography Janani Mohan is missing a sari she wore at her wedding in April, which was also worn by her mother Graduate student Nicole Lobo moved back to the US in late August after a year in the UK, shipping 10 boxes of possessions back home to Philadelphia that she…

Google’s parent company Alphabet will invest $15bn (£11.29bn) to build an AI data hub in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh state. The facility, which will be set up in the port city of Visakhapatnam, is going to be a part of Google’s global network of AI centres spread across 12 countries. “It’s the largest AI hub…

A Kenyan police officer stationed at one of the gates of the president’s official residence in the capital, Nairobi, has died after being shot with an arrow, officials have said. Police said that on Monday morning, a 56-year-old man, armed with a bow and arrows, approached officers at the gate of State House and was…

Weeks after widespread protests swept Indonesia over the excessive pays of lawmakers, a new allowance raise has unleashed fresh public anger. Lawmakers will now get 702 million rupiah ($42,400; £31,800) in recess allowances – a near-double increase from the previous allowance of 400 million rupiah, said the country’s deputy house speaker. The recess allowance is…

Venezuela announced on Monday it would close its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, the Venezuelan government did not comment on Machado’s prize, saying that the closure was part of a restructuring of its foreign service. Norway’s foreign ministry confirmed that Caracas…

BBC The Israeli military says 20 living hostages have been released by Hamas and have returned to Israel. Until Monday, 48 hostages were still being held in Gaza, although some are believed to be dead. All but one of the hostages were among the 251 people abducted during the Palestinian group’s attack on southern Israel…

Footage published by the Israeli military shows the freed hostages moments after they were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza and brought to Israel. Israeli hostages Alon Ohel and Guy Gilboa-Dalal are seen speaking to IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers after representatives of the Red Cross handed them over to Israel. Hamas released all surviving…

Forty-two Zimbabwean and Malawian nationals have died after a bus taking them home overturned on a South African road, authorities have said. The crash happened on Sunday night as the bus was moving through “a mountainous section” of the N1 highway in South Africa’s Limpopo province, local transport officials said. “It [then] veered off the…

It’s often said that a picture can speak a thousand words. The one in Indian newspapers on Monday morning showing female journalists occupying front-row seats at the Afghan Taliban foreign minister’s press conference in Delhi is certainly one of those. The conference – the second press event by Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghan embassy…