Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘We have some other friends, like India’: Netanyahu pushes back after Vance calls US ‘only ally’ of Israel

The comments come ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, where he is set to meet Trump at the White House. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday pushed back against US Vice-President JD Vance‘s assertion that the United States is Israel’s “only” powerful ally, pointing instead to India as one of the country’s strongest international…

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After the Great Wall of China, Africa is building an 8,000-km ‘Wall of Trees’ to fight climate change, restore land and feed millions |

Stretching from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the shores of Djibouti on the Red Sea, Africa is undertaking one of the most ambitious environmental projects ever attempted. Known as the Great Green Wall, the initiative spans around 8,000 kilometres across the Sahel, a vast semi-arid region bordering the Sahara Desert. Its goal is far…

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IIT Bombay gold medallist rejected a Rs 2.9 crore US job to care for his parents; years later, the same company came back with another offer

Why an IIT Bombay topper reportedly chose family over a Rs 2.9 crore US career opportunity. (Photo: LinkedIn) Every year, thousands of engineering students dream of studying at IIT, landing a high-paying job abroad and building a successful career overseas. For many, that’s the ultimate definition of success. But a story that has gone viral…

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Aamir Khan-Gauri Spratt wedding: First photo of the couple as husband and wife is out; the newlyweds take their wedding vows in the presence of family and children |

Aamir Khan and Gauri Spratt married in an intimate Pali Hill ceremony, with Spratt in ivory lace and Khan in a cream kurta. Khan had confirmed a simple registered marriage with close family and friends. This is his third wedding, following Reena Dutta and Kiran Rao, with whom he shares cordial co-parenting ties. Aamir Khan…

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After laying off 8,000 employees, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits at Town Hall that AI agents had not progressed as quickly as expected and top executives ‘miscalculated’ …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg conceded at an internal town hall this week that the company’s sweeping restructuring had not delivered the expected results. According to a report by Reuters, Zuckerberg said the company’s AI agents had not progressed as quickly as anticipated, and that top executives had ‘miscalculated’ the timing of the changes. The restarting…

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A Dutch floating solar farm was built for clean energy, but scientists found it also created habitat for nearly 2,000 invertebrates

A sprawling solar farm on a tranquil lake, bathed in a golden sunset glow. Image Credit: TIL Creatives An unexpected environmental benefit has been observed as a result of the construction of a floating solar plant in the Netherlands. Although the plant was developed with a view to producing renewable electricity, it has been found…

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Israel in the early 1900s planted millions of pine trees to green barren hills, but ecologists later found many native Mediterranean habitats had disappeared beneath them | World News

Massive tree-planting campaigns in Israel, once hailed as environmental triumphs, have inadvertently caused significant ecological damage. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In thinking about the thick forests that dot the hills around Jerusalem or traversing the rolling green hills of Galilee, we tend to envision the success story of an environmentally conscious effort. This involves dark…

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