125 years after brutalities by a Belgian king, Congo has got a note of regret from the country. The King of Belgium has sent his "deepest regrets" to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo for the sufferings his nation inflicted&nbsp;on the former colony. But King Philippe stopped shot of apologising for his ancestor Leopold II's atrocities. Historians estimate that under Leopold's misrule between 1885 and 1908, 10 million people died in Congo.

125 years after brutalities by a Belgian king, Congo has got a note of regret from the country. The King of Belgium has sent his "deepest regrets" to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo for the sufferings his nation inflicted on the former colony. But King Philippe stopped shot of apologising for his ancestor Leopold II's atrocities. Historians estimate that under Leopold's misrule between 1885 and 1908, 10 million people died in Congo.

PTI, Washington: The US administration has agreed to rescind its July 6 rule, which temporarily barred international students from staying in the United States unless they attend at least one in-person course, a federal district court judge said on Tuesday.
The U-turn by the Trump administration comes following a nationwide outrage against its July 6 order. A series of lawsuits were filed by a large number of educational institutions, led by the prestigious Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). the lawsuits sought a permanent injunctive relief to bar the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from enforcing the federal guidelines barring international students attending colleges and universities offering only online courses from staying in the country.
As many as 17 US states and the District of Columbia, along with top American IT companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft, joined MIT and Harvard against the new visa norm in seeking an injunction to stop the entire rule from going into effect.
"I have been informed by the parties that they have come to a resolution. They will return to the status quo," Judge Allison Burroughs, the federal district judge in Boston, said in a surprise statement at the top of the hearing on the lawsuit.
The announcement comes as a big relief to international students, including those from India. In the 2018-2019 academic year, there were over 10 lakh international students in the US. According to a recent report of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), 1,94,556 Indian students were enrolled in various academic institutions in the US in January.

Delivering a major blow to the Chinese technology giant, Britain will bar new deployments of Huawei equipment in its high-speed 5G network, the government said on Tuesday. The decision to unplug from Huawei, will delay Britain&rsquo;s rollout of 5G service by two to three years and cost billions of dollars.&nbsp;Britain said it will phase out over the next seven years the small amount of Huawei 5G equipment installed in recent months. For slower 3G and 4G mobile phone systems, the British government said providers should remove and replace most of the older Huawei gear over the next few years.

The liftoff of the United Arab Emirates' Mars orbiter was postponed until Friday due to bad weather at the Japanese launch site.&nbsp;The orbiter named Amal, or Hope, is the Arab world's first interplanetary mission.&nbsp;
 The launch was scheduled for Wednesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, but the UAE mission team announced the rescheduled date on Twitter.&nbsp; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H-IIA rocket will carry UAE's craft into space.
Mitsubishi launch official&nbsp;Keiji&nbsp;Suzuki had said on Monday a postponement was possible as intermittent lightning and rain were forecast over the next few days. Heavy rain has fallen for more than a week in large areas of Japan, triggering mudslides and floods and killing more than 70 people, most of them on the southern main island of Kyushu.&nbsp;
Hope is set to reach Mars in February 2021, the year the UAE celebrates 50 years since its formation. A successful Hope mission would be a major step for the oil-dependent economy seeking a future in space.&nbsp;

PTI, New Delhi: France will soon announce an "exceptional package" for India, including ventilators and expertise, as part of its efforts to jointly combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the French envoy to India said on Tuesday.&nbsp;In his message on the French National Day -- Bastille Day, French Ambassador to India Emmanuel&nbsp;Lenain&nbsp;said that since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the two countries have shown exceptional solidarity.
&nbsp; "India has provided much needed equipment and drugs to French hospitals. Friendship is a two-way road and France has reciprocated,"&nbsp;Lenain&nbsp;said.&nbsp;
The French development agency AFD has granted an exceptional loan of 200 million euros (Rs 1,600 crore) to provide social services to the most vulnerable population in India, he said.&nbsp;
"We are going to announce soon an exceptional package comprising serological test (kits), ventilators and some expertise," the French envoy said in the message posted on all social media handles of the French Embassy here.&nbsp;

China in its attempt to cover up the number of its soldiers killed in the Galwan clash with the Indian Army is even denying burials for its soldiers, according to a US intelligence assessment. Reports say that Beijing is pressuring the families of soldiers who died in Galwan face off to not conduct burials and in-person funeral ceremonies.
The bloody brawl between Chinese and Indian troops took place on June 15 in which both sides suffered casualties. India, in contrast, accepted that 20 of its soldiers have been martyred in the clash. They are being hailed as heroes.
Even after the one month of the incident, China has still not disclosed how many of its soldiers were killed in the incident.
According to the US intelligence assessment, China is not accepting that its soldiers have been killed in the showdown in order to cover up an episode that Beijing appears to consider a blunder, reported the US News.
The Chinese government has acknowledged the deaths of only a few officers so far. Indian intercepts have revealed that the Chinese side suffered 43 casualties including the dead and seriously injured.
American intelligence believes that 35 of the Chinese soldiers were killed in the showdown.

PTI, Washington: US president Donald Trump's visa policy for international students is facing a stiff challenge. As many as 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Monday against the new curbs on international students.
At the same time, more than a dozen top American technology companies, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, have joined a lawsuit filed by the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology challenging the rule that bars international students from staying in the United States unless they attend at least one in-person course.
Attorney generals of the states that have challenged the rule have called the Trump administration's move "cruel, abrupt, and unlawful action to expel international students amidst the pandemic that has wrought death and disruption across the United States".
The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the entire rule from going into effect.
The tech companies, along with the US Chamber of Commerce and other IT advocacy groups, asserted that the July 6 ICE directive will disrupt their recruiting plans. They have added that it will make it impossible to bring on board international students that businesses had planned to hire, and disturb the recruiting process on which the firms have relied on to identify and train their future employees.
Asserting that international students contribute substantially to the US economy when they reside in the United States, the legal brief said the departure of these students threatens the ability of US educational institutions to sustain critical mass -- which they need in order to maintain their standards of excellence, to train the American students who will make up the talent pool available to amici and other US companies in the future, and to perform the research that keeps US businesses on the cutting edge of innovation.

In a diplomatic setback for India, Iran has dropped New Delhi from the Chabahar rail project. The Hindu news paper reported that four years after India and Iran signed an agreement to construct a rail line from Chabahar port to Zahedan, along the border with Afghanistan, the Iranian government has decided to proceed with the construction on its own. Tehran has cited delays from the Indian side in funding and starting the project.
The development comes as China finalises a massive 25-year, $400 billion strategic partnership deal with Iran, which could cloud India&rsquo;s plans.
Officials told The Hindu that the entire project would be completed by March 2022, and that Iranian Railways will proceed without India&rsquo;s assistance, using approximately $400 million from the Iranian National Development Fund.
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PTI, Washington: The United States has categorically rejected the territorial claims made by Beijing in South China Sea. Asserting that the "Chinese predatory world view" has no place in the 21st century, the Trump administration has stated that it has no legal grounds to unilaterally impose its will on the region.
"The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire. America stands with our Southeast Asian allies and partners in protecting their sovereign rights to offshore resources, consistent with their rights and obligations under international law," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a major policy announcement.
The United States, he said, stands with the international community in the defence of freedom of the seas and respect for sovereignty and rejects any push to impose "might makes right" in the South China Sea or the wider region.
Pompeo said China cannot lawfully assert a maritime claim -- including any exclusive economic zone (EEZ) claims derived from Scarborough Reef and the Spratly Islands -- vis-a-vis the Philippines in areas that a tribunal found to be in the Philippines' EEZ or on its continental shelf.
The US, he said, rejects any Chinese claim to waters beyond a 12-nautical mile territorial sea derived from islands it claims in the Spratly Islands (without prejudice to other states' sovereignty claims over such islands).
Also, China has no lawful territorial or maritime claim to (or derived from) James Shoal, an entirely submerged feature only 50 nautical miles from Malaysia and some 1,000 nautical miles from China's coast, Pompeo said.

The United States on Monday reported close to 60,000 new coronavirus cases. According to a real-time tally by Johns Hopkins University, the country reported 59,222 in the last 24 hours.
That put the total number of cases in the US, the nation hardest-hit by the global pandemic, at more than 3.36 million, the tracker said on Tuesday.
411 new deaths were also reported during the same time, bringing total fatalities to 135,582.
The country has seen a resurgence of cases in the so-called Sun Belt, stretching across the south from Florida to California.

The United Nations has said the ranks of the world's hungry grew by 10 million last year and has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into hunger this year.&nbsp;
 The grim assessment in the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, which is an annual report was released on Monday by the five UN agencies that produced it.&nbsp;
The report said: Preliminary projections suggest the pandemic &ldquo;may add an additional 83 million to 132 million people to the ranks of the undernourished in 2020."&nbsp;
It further said &ldquo;unprecedented Desert Locust outbreaks" in Eastern Africa are compounding the problem.&nbsp;
The UN agencies estimated that nearly 690 million people, or nearly 9% of the world's population, went hungry last year, an increase of 10 million since 2018 and of nearly 60 million since 2014.&nbsp;
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Over 80 millionaires on Monday urged governments around the world to tax the super-rich much more to help fund the global recovery from the coronavirus outbreak. In an open letter, the group, calling themselves "Millionaires for Humanity", said they should be taxed higher, 'immediately, substantially, permanently'. Signatories, included Ben and Jerry's ice cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield, screenwriter Richard Curtis and filmmaker Abigail Disney. US entrepreneur Sidney Topol and New Zealand retailer Stephen Tindall also signed. The letter said, as Covid-19 strikes the world, millionaires have a critical role to play in healing our world. "We are not the ones caring for the sick in intensive care wards. We are not driving the ambulances that will bring the ill to hospitals. We are not restocking grocery store shelves or delivering food door to door. But we do have money, lots of it. Money that is desperately needed now and will continue to be needed in the years ahead"

The World Health&nbsp;Organisation&nbsp;Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said that &lsquo;too many countries are headed in the wrong direction and the virus remains public enemy number one&rsquo;.
During a virtual briefing from WHO headquarters in Geneva, he&nbsp;warned&nbsp;&lsquo;if&nbsp;basics are not followed, this pandemic is going to get worse and worse&rsquo;. "Let me be blunt, too many countries are headed in the wrong direction, the virus remains public enemy number one," he said, according to the Reuters.&nbsp;
 Infections rose above 13 million across the world on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, climbing by one million in just five days in a pandemic that has killed more than half a million people.&nbsp;

New Delhi&nbsp;(PTI): The Indian and Chinese military are scheduled to hold their fourth round of Lt General-level talks on Tuesday with an aim to&nbsp;finalise&nbsp;modalities for the next phase of de-escalation and disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh, government sources said on Monday.&nbsp; The meeting is set to be held in&nbsp;Chushul&nbsp;on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, they said.&nbsp;
 The two sides are also expected to&nbsp;finalise&nbsp;a roadmap for restoration of peace and tranquility in the high-altitude region that witnessed an eight-week bitter standoff between the troops of the two countries.&nbsp;
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has already completed pulling back troops from Gogra, Hot Springs and&nbsp;Galwan&nbsp;Valley and significantly thinned down its presence in the ridgeline of Finger Four in the Pangong Tso area in the last one week as demanded by India.&nbsp;
India has been insisting that China must withdraw its forces from areas between Finger Four and Eight. The mountain spurs in the area are referred to as Fingers.&nbsp;
The formal process of disengagement of troops began last Monday after a nearly two-hour telephonic conversation between National Security Advisor&nbsp;Ajit&nbsp;Doval&nbsp;and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi the previous day.&nbsp;
On Friday, India and China held another round of diplomatic talks during which both sides resolved to push ahead with "complete disengagement" of troops in eastern Ladakh in a timely manner for "full restoration" of peace and tranquility.&nbsp;
At the meeting, it was decided that senior commanders of the two armies will meet "soon" to discuss further steps to "ensure complete disengagement and de-escalation".&nbsp;
The two countries have already held three rounds of Lt General-level talks and the last one took place on June 30 during which both sides agreed on an "expeditious, phased and step wise" de-escalation as a "priority" to end the standoff.&nbsp;

China announced sanctions against US officials including two senators on Monday in retaliation against US sanctions on senior Chinese officials over the treatment of minority Uighur Muslims. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson told the media that the&nbsp;behaviour&nbsp;of the US officials and politicians, and visa ban on some Chinese officials from Uyghur Muslim dominated Xinjiang province "severely damaged China-US relations," and should be condemned.&nbsp;China has decided to impose sanctions starting from Monday against US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Samuel Brownback, Congressman Chris Smit and US Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.&nbsp;

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie&nbsp;Madikizela, has died at the age of 59.&nbsp;Zindzi died in a Johannesburg hospital on Monday morning.&nbsp;She was serving as the South African ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death.&nbsp;The cause of her death was not immediately revealed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Zindzi was the family member who read out Nelson Mandela's rejection of then-president PW Botha's offer for conditional release from prison at a public meeting in February 1985.&nbsp;

Iran has said that the misalignment of an air defence unit's radar system was the key "human error" that led to the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January. The Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation said in a report that this error "initiated a hazard chain" that saw further errors committed in the minutes before the plane was shot down. Ukraine jetliner, was struck by two missiles and crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran airport on January 8, at a time of heightened US-Iranian tensions. Iran admitted several days later that its forces accidentally shot down the Kiev-bound plane, killing all 176 people on board.

Florida reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours on Sunday as the cases continued to surge in the United States. If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most new cases in a day behind the United States, Brazil and India, according to a Reuters analysis. The US on Sunday recorded 59,747 new cases over the last 24-hour period, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The number of cases in the US has rocketed in recent weeks, hitting a record of 66,528 in 24 hours on Saturday.

The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 230,370 in 24 hours. The biggest increases were from the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa, according to a daily report. The previous WHO record for new cases was 228,102 on July 10.&nbsp;Global coronavirus cases were approaching 13 million on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than 5,65,000 people in seven months.

Pope Francis on Sunday said that he was hurt by Turkey&rsquo;s decision to make Istanbul&rsquo;s Hagia Sophia museum a mosque. &ldquo;My thoughts go to Istanbul. I think of Santa Sophia and I am very pained,&rdquo; he said during his weekly blessing in St. Peter&rsquo;s Square in the Vatican City. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said the first prayers would be held in Hagia Sophia on July 24, after declaring the ancient monument was once again a mosque following a court ruling revoking its status as a museum. The World Council of Churches has called on Erdogan to reverse his decision.

21 people were injured in a massive blaze aboard a US warship docked at Naval Base San Diego on Sunday. Aerial footage showed palls of thick smoke engulfing much of 844-foot USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault vessel in port for routine maintenance. About half a dozen firefighting boats in the harbor trained streams of water onto the burning vessel to bring down the blaze. Two guided-missile destroyers docked nearby - the USS Fitzgerald and USS Russell - had to be moved farther from the burning vessel.

The King of Belgium has sent his "deepest regrets" to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo for the sufferings his nation inflicted&nbsp;on the former colony

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