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Amazon’s cloud services provider, Amazon Web Services, will invest about US$8.2 billion in India’s western state of Maharashtra over the next few years, the information technology ministry said on Monday. India has been stepping up its efforts to pilot local cloud data storage. According to a report by International Data Corporation, the country’s cloud services market – estimated at US$8.3 billion in 2023 – is expected to grow to US$24.2 billion by 2028. “Along with the investment, there will be significant growth in employment,” Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, adding that the investments will roll out…

Scott Lucas, a Birmingham professor, examines the Ukraine-US fallout—can Europe and the world step up to ensure Ukraine’s security?Scott Lucas, a professor at the University of Birmingham, examines the Ukraine-US fallout – and asks, can Europe and the rest of the world step up to guarantee Ukraine’s security?

There is the theory that President Trump is still bitter about his Canadian hotel ventures that went bust.Some, on social media, have speculated that a 2019 photograph in which Justin Trudeau appeared poised to kiss Melania Trump, the first lady, at a Group of 7 gathering in France, left Mr. Trump with a grudge against the dashing Canadian prime minister.And then there is the transactional view, that Mr. Trump sees the acquisition of Canada as the 51st state as the ultimate real estate deal that would seal his presidential legacy.As Mr. Trump prepares to push ahead with a new round…

A suburban Chicago man accused of killing seven people and injuring 48 others in the 2022 Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, agreed to flip his plea to guilty in court on Monday.Robert Crimo III, 24, faces 21 counts of first-degree murder – three counts for each person killed – as well as 48 counts of attempted murder.  Robert E. Crimo III speaks to Lake County’s assistant public defender Anton Trizna as he appears for a hearing before Judge Victoria A. Rossetti at the Lake County Courthouse on June 26, 2024, in Waukegan, Illinois. (Photo by Nam Y. Huh-Pool/Getty…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 3, 2025 10:45 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada Post is accusing the union representing its more than 55,000 workers of showing “little meaningful movement” during mediated negotiations this weekend to end a labour dispute that saw employees ordered back to work late last year. A statement from Canada Post on Sunday says the Crown corporation put forward “a workable and affordable weekend delivery model” it says would make it competitive for parcel delivery, using a dedicated part-time workforce. 0:39 Canada Post ramps up service, begins…

For almost a decade, Jill Saulnier was an energy line forward for the Canadian women’s national team, winning two Olympic medals and a world championship.Now she can add a new line to her resume: She threw the first real punches in the history of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, in a fight with Ottawa forward Tereza Vanišová.“We were battling out there,” Saulnier told The Athletic. “She got a hold of my stick and dropped it down, and that was just kind of the green flag for me …. I said, ‘Let’s go.’” The first legitimate fight in the #PWHL. @PWHL_Boston’s…

India captain Rohit Sharma has dismissed suggestions that they have had an unfair advantage by being allowed to play all their Champions Trophy matches in Dubai.India refused to tour Pakistan for the tournament because of the strained political relations between the bitter neighbours, who play each other only in multi-team events.The International Cricket Council, which has former Indian board secretary Jay Shah as its current chairman, has been criticised for obliging the game’s financial engine by letting India camp in Dubai.While other teams shuttled among three Pakistani cities and Dubai, India did not face any travel hassle and gained valuable…

One person was killed and several others injured when a man drove a car into a lunch-hour crowd in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, the police said on Monday.The police said the driver had been arrested, and that they were investigating whether other perpetrators had been involved.Details about the driver were not released. The police did not say whether they believed the crash was deliberate, and they asked people to refrain from sharing video of the incident and the subsequent investigation on social media. The police did not say how many people had been injured.The authorities asked people to…

As President Trump prepares to deliver his first address to joint sessions of Congress since taking office in January, here are several of the wildest moments from joint addresses from presidents in the past. Dem. Sen. Joe Manchin bucks party to stand and clap for Trump in 2018West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who later became an independent, went viral on social media after he stood when President Trump entered the chamber, and stood and applauded some of Trump’s policy proposals when other Democrats remained sitting.”That’s the way I was raised in West Virginia. We have respect,” Manchin said about his actions…

At the end of his figure skating performance, when the last note of his parents’ favorite song played in an arena packed with spectators and heavy with sorrow, Maxim Naumov dropped to his knees at the center of the ice. He remained there for what seemed like forever, awash in a spotlight, looking lost and sobbing.And in row after row, section after section, inside Capital One Arena on Sunday in downtown Washington, the crowd of about 15,000 people climbed to its feet, applauded — and cried with him.Naumov was one of the skaters featured at the benefit Legacy on Ice,…