Three people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a HDB void deck in Hougang on Monday (Feb 16). Footage posted on Xiaohongshu by a user named Charmaine shows flames on the ground floor, with smoke billowing. A large number of residents can also be seen gathering under the void deck of a neighbouring block. Charmaine, who called the events of her Chinese New Year eve «thrilling», wrote that she was sitting on her sofa when her domestic helper ran out of the kitchen yelling: «Ma'am, fire!» After closing the windows and grabbing their bags and the pet dog, they ran out of the flat. Charmaine also posted photos of the aftermath, with contractors involved in the clean-up. 

French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron arrived in Mumbai for a three-day visit to strengthen the India-France strategic partnership. The agenda includes bilateral talks with PM Modi, focusing on defence, space, and technology, and participation in the AI Impact Summit.

A new round of consultations on settlement in Ukraine will start on February 17

Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky will lead the Russian delegation

Soaring up to heaven, watching your life flash past, or hovering over your own body on a surgeon's table. People who've been revived from the precipice of death frequently report such events.

Campaigner Jean Hatchet and her partner confronted members of the Sheffield Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) campaign on Sunday as they went canvassing in the city.

Odessa, Kropyvnytskyi, Dnepropetrovsk are witnessing blasts. Air raid warnings are in effect in several more cities

According to the source, Europe will not participate in this round of the negotiations

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Local authorities say, one civilian was injured, some road-building equipment was damaged

Air raid warnings are in effect in the region

Steve Witkoff, entrepreneur Jared Kushner are expected to represent the US during this round of the Russia-US-Ukraine talks

The president says, the US urges Kiev to start being more flexible

A GOP-appointed federal judge in Pennsylvania has ordered the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery to a George Washington site in Philadelphia.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts French President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai. The leaders will enhance defence, trade, and technology cooperation. Several agreements are expected. The India-France Year of Innovation begins. Discussions will cover regional and global issues. AI cooperation is also a key focus.

Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran stated that AI's impact on India's demographic advantage hinges on current decisions, urging coordinated national action. He emphasized that technological adoption must be deliberately aligned with mass employability, requiring political will and national commitment to ensure human abundance and machine intelligence reinforce each other for co-created prosperity.

The Pentagon could reportedly designate the company behind the Claude AI model as a security risk Read Full Article at RT.com

Western Europe remains willfully blind to its own mistakes of the past two decades, choosing to escalate crises and blame others Read Full Article at RT.com

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CBSE mandates all Class X students to take the first board exam under the new two-exam system starting 2026. Missing three or more subjects in the initial test means an 'essential repeat' and disqualification from the second exam. Compartment candidates can appear in the second exam. No exemptions for additional subjects will be granted.

Mani Shankar Aiyar hit back at the Congress after the party dissociated itself from his prediction of a Left victory in Kerala. Aiyar asserted his continued loyalty to the party, questioning why anyone would remain if not for belief in the Nehru-Gandhi family's leadership.

Almost one week after the fatal mass shooting at a high school and home in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., the local school board is focusing on how to respectfully get kids back to their education.