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South Korean President Lee will travel to Washington for Aug. 25 meeting with Trump

SEOUL, South Korea, August 12, 2025 (AP) — South Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung will travel to Washington later this month to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Lee’s office said Tuesday, for talks on trade and defense cooperation in the face of nuclear-armed North Korea and other threats. Their Aug. 25 summit will follow a July trade deal in which Washington agreed to cut its reciprocal tariff on South Korea to 15% from the initially proposed 25% and to apply the same reduced rate to South Korean cars, the country’s top export to the United States. South Korea

Tamil Nadu to launch door delivery of ration items to elderly, differently abled

Chennai, Aug 12 (PTI) Chief Minister M K Stalin will launch a scheme on Tuesday to deliver ration items to the doors of over 21 lakh beneficiaries—senior citizens and the differently abled—the Tamil Nadu government said. The “Chief Minister’s Thayumanavar Scheme” will be launched by Stalin here, wherein ration items including rice and sugar will be delivered to the intended beneficiaries at their doorsteps, an official release said. Senior citizens of over 70 years and differently abled ration card holders are the targeted beneficiaries of the scheme. Around 20.42 lakh senior citizens and over 1.27 lakh differently abled persons would

Two eggs a day could lower cholesterol, latest research says

A latest research adds to the growing notion that advice to limit egg consumption to avoid increasing bad cholesterol and risk of heart disease was based on scrambled data. What raises bad LDL cholesterol is actually the types of food we tend to eat alongside our eggs, such as bacon and sausage, according to a study from the University of South Australia that finds eggs have been unfairly beaten up for decades. Advice has long been to limit egg consumption — especially the cholesterol-containing yolks — to avoid developing cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death globally, killing

World has seen murder of democracy: Uddhav on detention of Oppn MPs during anti-EC stir

Mumbai, Aug 11 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday hit out at the BJP-led Centre over the detention of Opposition MPs in New Delhi during their march against the Election Commission (EC), saying the world has seen that democracy is being murdered in India. Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Thackeray maintained the BJP-led NDA government has smeared democracy with its own hands by detaining the Members of Parliament (MPs) who were protesting against the EC over the “vote theft” issue. Dubbing the protest march as a fight against the poll body, the former Maharashtra CM, whose party

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