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Oct 17, 2025 - World

Salesforce CEO faced intensifying backlash after saying national guard will make California city saferMarc Benioff, the billionaire CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, apologized on Friday for saying he supported Donald Trump sending national guard troops to San Francisco.Benioff, who has been facing intensifying backlash in California, said in a post that after he “listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials … I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco”. Continue reading...

Oct 17, 2025 - World

Former prosecutor testified before House committee on hurdles that prosecution of convicted sex offender would have facedAlexander Acosta, the former US attorney for the southern district of Florida who negotiated a plea deal in 2008 with Jeffrey Epstein, testified before the House oversight committee last month that going to trial would have been a “crapshoot” due to lack of cooperation from victims.In a transcript of the six-hour interview released on Friday, the former prosecutor, who later served in the first Trump administration, described the evidentiary hurdles Epstein’s federal prosecution would have faced, and why his office turned the case over to Florida state prosecutors that resulted in the disgraced financier pleading guilty to charges of soliciting sex from a minor. Continue reading...

Oct 17, 2025 - World

A judge on Friday ordered the release on bail of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of deposed Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, after nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon.

Oct 17, 2025 - World

Former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Thailand of broadcasting "ghost-like" sounds along a disputed border.

Oct 17, 2025 - World

The government has succeeded in reducing the number of Maoist-hit districts, across the country, to just 11 from 125 a decade ago, underlined Prime Minister Narendra Modi at NDTV World Summit in Delhi.