Russia's mercenary group - Wagner - are back in news! Since Wagner Group aborted mutiny in Russia on June 23rd when it opened rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the group has now become a concern for Poland.

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Sporadic violence continues in the north Indian state of Haryana for the third day, at least five people were killed and dozens were injured in the clashes. At least 80 arrests have been made so far linked to this violence. State governments have imposed orders in some parts.

Haryana violence: Delhi, Noida on alert; Police conduct flag march in Gurugram

The UK government has taken another step towards keeping its promise to stop illegal immigration, and reports suggest that it may use tents to house 200 migrants. However, just recently, the UK home office purchased ten additional tents to house these migrants, as part of the plans introduced by Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

UK government buys tents to house asylum seekers : Reports

The justices of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments to decide the fate of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt for about 40 million borrowers.&nbsp;

The nine justices are weighing the Biden administration's appeal of two lower court rulings blocking the policy that he announced last August in legal challenges brought by six conservative-leaning states and two student loan borrowers opposed to the plan's eligibility requirements.&nbsp;

Under the Democratic president's plan, the US government would forgive up to $10,000 in federal student debt for Americans making under $125,000 who took out loans to pay for college and other post-secondary education. It would also write off $20,000 for each recipients of Pell grants awarded to students from lower-income families.

About 26 million people have applied for debt forgiveness, and 16 million applications have been approved. However, because of court rulings, all the relief is on hold. The Education Department stopped taking applications in November because of legal challenges to the plan.

According to a report in Reuters, hundreds of demonstrators jammed the sidewalk in front of the court building, rallying in favor of Biden's relief plan. In a message posted on Twitter, Biden wrote, "The relief is critical to over 40 million Americans as they recover from the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. We're confident it's legal."&nbsp;

The policy, intended to ease the financial burden on debt-saddled borrowers, could face scrutiny by the court under the so-called major questions doctrine.

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Biden's administration has said the plan is authorised under a 2003 federal law called the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or HEROES Act, that allows student loan debt relief during wartime or national emergencies.&nbsp;

Many borrowers experienced financial strain during the COVID-19 pandemic, a declared public health emergency. Beginning in 2020, the administrations of President Donald Trump, a Republican, and Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly paused federal student loan payments and halted interest from accruing, relying upon the HEROES Act.&nbsp;

In the legal challenge brought by individual borrowers Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor, Texas-based US District Judge Mark Pittman ruled the student loan forgiveness program lacked "clear congressional authorisation." The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put Pittman's decision on hold pending appeal.

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The justices of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments to decide the fate of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt for about 40 million borrowers.

The justices of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments to decide the fate of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student debt for about 40 million borrowers. The nine justices are weighing the Biden administration's appeal of two lower court rulings blocking the policy that he announced last August in legal challenges brought by six conservative-leaning states and two student loan borrowers opposed to the plan's eligibility requirements. Under the Democratic president's plan, the US government would forgive up to $10,000 in federal student debt for Americans making under $125,000 who took out loans to pay for college and other post-secondary education. It would also write off $20,000 for each recipients of Pell grants awarded to students from lower-income families. About 26 million people have applied for debt forgiveness, and 16 million applications have been approved. However, because of court rulings, all the relief is on hold. The Education Department stopped taking applications in November because of legal challenges to the plan. According to a report in Reuters, hundreds of demonstrators jammed the sidewalk in front of the court building, rallying in favor of Biden's relief plan. In a message posted on Twitter, Biden wrote, "The relief is critical to over 40 million Americans as they recover from the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. We're confident it's legal." The policy, intended to ease the financial burden on debt-saddled borrowers, could face scrutiny by the court under the so-called major questions doctrine. ALSO READ: | Joe Biden on his way to becoming the most evasive president in US history: Report Biden's administration has said the plan is authorised under a 2003 federal law called the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or HEROES Act, that allows student loan debt relief during wartime or national emergencies. Many borrowers experienced financial strain during the COVID-19 pandemic, a declared public health emergency. Beginning in 2020, the administrations of President Donald Trump, a Republican, and Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly paused federal student loan payments and halted interest from accruing, relying upon the HEROES Act. In the legal challenge brought by individual borrowers Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor, Texas-based US District Judge Mark Pittman ruled the student loan forgiveness program lacked "clear congressional authorisation." The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put Pittman's decision on hold pending appeal. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

US Supreme Court hears arguments on Biden's student debt relief plan

Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson’s ‘Manson Family’ notorious criminal gang, has died at the age of 73.

Linda Kasabian passed away on January 21 at a hospital in Tacoma, Washington. As per the reports, her body has been cremated but her cause of death has not been revealed.

A death certificate, obtained by TMZ, recorded that Kasabian changed her surname in later life to ‘Chiochios’ in order to protect her identity after she ended her association with the cult.

Kasabian, served as a star witness for the prosecution in the Manson Family murder trial in 1970. Kasabian, then 20, waited outside the rented Los Angeles home of pregnant film star Sharon Tate on Aug. 9, 1969 while members of the Manson Family stabbed the actress and three other people to death, according to a report.

Linda Kasabian, who did not take part in the murders themselves, was granted immunity by prosecutors to testify against Manson and four of his followers at their sensational 1970 trial in Los Angeles. All five were convicted.

She testified that Watson, Krenwinkel and Atkins fatally shot and stabbed five victims at the scene – Tate and her unborn child Paul, hairdresser Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of Tate’s groundskeeper – while Mr Polanski was away in Europe shooting a movie.

Manson, a charismatic ex-convict, assembled a group of runaways and outcasts, including Kasabian, and established a makeshift commune at a defunct movie ranch northwest of Los Angeles.

In the summer of 1969, Manson directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war. 
Manson was sentenced to death in 1969 for the Manson Family killings and murder of an acquaintance, Gary Hinman.

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Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson’s ‘Manson Family’ notorious criminal gang, has died at the age of 73. Linda Kasabian passed away on January 21 at a hospital in Tacoma, Washington.

Linda Kasabian, a member of Charles Manson’s ‘Manson Family’ notorious criminal gang, has died at the age of 73. Linda Kasabian passed away on January 21 at a hospital in Tacoma, Washington. As per the reports, her body has been cremated but her cause of death has not been revealed. A death certificate, obtained by TMZ, recorded that Kasabian changed her surname in later life to ‘Chiochios’ in order to protect her identity after she ended her association with the cult. Kasabian, served as a star witness for the prosecution in the Manson Family murder trial in 1970. Kasabian, then 20, waited outside the rented Los Angeles home of pregnant film star Sharon Tate on Aug. 9, 1969 while members of the Manson Family stabbed the actress and three other people to death, according to a report. Linda Kasabian, who did not take part in the murders themselves, was granted immunity by prosecutors to testify against Manson and four of his followers at their sensational 1970 trial in Los Angeles. All five were convicted. She testified that Watson, Krenwinkel and Atkins fatally shot and stabbed five victims at the scene – Tate and her unborn child Paul, hairdresser Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of Tate’s groundskeeper – while Mr Polanski was away in Europe shooting a movie. Manson, a charismatic ex-convict, assembled a group of runaways and outcasts, including Kasabian, and established a makeshift commune at a defunct movie ranch northwest of Los Angeles. In the summer of 1969, Manson directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war. Manson was sentenced to death in 1969 for the Manson Family killings and murder of an acquaintance, Gary Hinman. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

'Manson family' member Linda Kasabian dies at 73

Bola Tinubu, Nigeria's ruling party candidate was ahead in the vote count after presidential poll on Saturday, a tally by Reuters of provisional results in 20 of 36 states showed on Monday, but opposition parties walked out of the counting process citing concerns of fraud.&nbsp;

The tally of provisional electoral commission results showed Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party, was ahead with 39.7% or 5.4 million of valid votes counted, against 32.2% or 4.4 million votes for Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP).&nbsp;

Outsider Peter Obi of the smaller Labour Party was in third place on about 16.3% with about 2.2 million.&nbsp;

The election has been fraught with logistical and technological difficulties that resulted in the failure, in many places, to upload results directly from each polling unit to its website, as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had promised to do to guarantee transparency.&nbsp;

"INEC's lack of efficient planning in critical stages and effective public communication reduced trust in the process," the European Union observer mission said in a statement.&nbsp;

Commonwealth observer mission chief Thabo Mbeki also criticised INEC for its failure to upload the results.&nbsp;

By 1700 GMT on Monday, INEC had uploaded results from just 66,167 polling units out of a total of 178,846, its website showed.&nbsp;

"We take full responsibility for the problems and regret the distress that they have caused the candidates, political parties and the electorate," the commission said in a statement.&nbsp;

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However the opposition parties were unsatisfied and claimed that the electoral process was rigged. &nbsp;

"The electoral process has been rigged ... and we are completely disassociating ourselves from it," PDP Atiku's campaign manage Melaye Dino said at the INEC results centre in Abuja. Obi's Labour party was equally scathing.&nbsp;

"We regret to say that we have lost confidence in the results being collated and announced," Akin Oshintokun, director of Obi's campaign, told reporters. "We hereby call on the INEC to ... follow its own guidelines or completely cancel the entire election."&nbsp;

The election process also faced technology woes. The election was highly dependent on communications technology that may have seemed doomed to fail in a country with such poor internet coverage, and the failures open the way for legal challenges against the results.&nbsp;

&nbsp;Obi defeated his ruling party challenger to win Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos in a major upset in the poll which was marred by delays and complaints of irregularities.&nbsp;

&nbsp;Around two-thirds of states in Africa's most populous country have yet to declare.&nbsp;

But the win in Lagos state - with 582,454 votes against 572,606 for Tinubu - was a major boost for Obi, whose run challenged candidates from two long-established movements that have alternated in power since the end of army rule in 1999. &nbsp;

Obi's campaign grabbed headlines with its use of social media and its focus on young people and urban voters fed up with widespread corruption and insecurity.&nbsp;

To become president, a candidate needs to get more votes than any other candidate and also garner a quarter of the votes in at least 24 states.&nbsp;

There have been reports of violence and intimidation, though not at the scale of previous elections.&nbsp;

In northern Kano state, police said a group had attacked a campaign office for a smaller opposition party and set the building on fire, killing two people.&nbsp;

Police said they had killed one of the attackers and arrested four suspects.

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Bola Tinubu, Nigeria's ruling party candidate was ahead in the vote count after presidential poll on Saturday, a tally by Reuters of provisional results in 20 of 36 states showed on Monday, but opposition parties walked out of the counting process citing concerns of fraud.

Bola Tinubu, Nigeria's ruling party candidate was ahead in the vote count after presidential poll on Saturday, a tally by Reuters of provisional results in 20 of 36 states showed on Monday, but opposition parties walked out of the counting process citing concerns of fraud. The tally of provisional electoral commission results showed Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party, was ahead with 39.7% or 5.4 million of valid votes counted, against 32.2% or 4.4 million votes for Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP). Outsider Peter Obi of the smaller Labour Party was in third place on about 16.3% with about 2.2 million. The election has been fraught with logistical and technological difficulties that resulted in the failure, in many places, to upload results directly from each polling unit to its website, as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had promised to do to guarantee transparency. "INEC's lack of efficient planning in critical stages and effective public communication reduced trust in the process," the European Union observer mission said in a statement. Commonwealth observer mission chief Thabo Mbeki also criticised INEC for its failure to upload the results. By 1700 GMT on Monday, INEC had uploaded results from just 66,167 polling units out of a total of 178,846, its website showed. "We take full responsibility for the problems and regret the distress that they have caused the candidates, political parties and the electorate," the commission said in a statement. ALSO READ| Nigeria awaits results after tight election However the opposition parties were unsatisfied and claimed that the electoral process was rigged. "The electoral process has been rigged ... and we are completely disassociating ourselves from it," PDP Atiku's campaign manage Melaye Dino said at the INEC results centre in Abuja. Obi's Labour party was equally scathing. "We regret to say that we have lost confidence in the results being collated and announced," Akin Oshintokun, director of Obi's campaign, told reporters. "We hereby call on the INEC to ... follow its own guidelines or completely cancel the entire election." The election process also faced technology woes. The election was highly dependent on communications technology that may have seemed doomed to fail in a country with such poor internet coverage, and the failures open the way for legal challenges against the results. Obi defeated his ruling party challenger to win Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos in a major upset in the poll which was marred by delays and complaints of irregularities. Around two-thirds of states in Africa's most populous country have yet to declare. But the win in Lagos state - with 582,454 votes against 572,606 for Tinubu - was a major boost for Obi, whose run challenged candidates from two long-established movements that have alternated in power since the end of army rule in 1999. Obi's campaign grabbed headlines with its use of social media and its focus on young people and urban voters fed up with widespread corruption and insecurity. To become president, a candidate needs to get more votes than any other candidate and also garner a quarter of the votes in at least 24 states. There have been reports of violence and intimidation, though not at the scale of previous elections. In northern Kano state, police said a group had attacked a campaign office for a smaller opposition party and set the building on fire, killing two people. Police said they had killed one of the attackers and arrested four suspects. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

Nigerian opposition parties protest election results

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is back in news for firing Twitter employees over the weekend. Last weekend, Musk removed a significant number of employees again and however now he is rewarding the remaining employees that they will receive significant performance-based stock awards on March 24.&nbsp;

According to a report by The Verge, Elon Musk has sent out a memo titled 'Performance Awards' to Twitter employees. The memo promises that the remaining employees will receive ‘very significant’ performance-based stock awards. The awards will be given out on March 24th.&nbsp;

In the memo Musk said, "This past week, we completed a difficult organizational overhaul focused on improving future execution, using as much feedback as we could gather from the entire company. Those who remain are highly regarded by those around them."&nbsp;

It is worth mentioning that, the memo titled "Performance Awards", was Musk's first message to Twitter employees since he fired hundreds more employees over the weekend, including some senior loyalists and almost the whole product team.

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However, Musk hasn't yet shared any details about "how he will make up for the stock awards that went away when he took Twitter private", the report said.&nbsp;

Previously he also made internal comments in which he mentioned the structure he established at SpaceX to allow employees to regularly sell the company's stock to interested investors.&nbsp;

With this recent cut, Musk has done at least four rounds of layoffs.&nbsp;

To be noted, Elon Musk laid off around 200 Twitter employees over the weekend which translates to around 10 per cent of the total remaining employee count. Twitter also removed some executives including Musk loyalist Esther Crawford who was positioned to roll out Twitter Blue. &nbsp;

Now, the company likely has less than 2,000 employees, which was about 7,500 when Musk took over.

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk is back in news for firing Twitter employees over the weekend. Last weekend, Musk removed a significant number of employees again and however now he is rewarding the remaining employees that they will receive significant performance-based stock awards on March 24.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is back in news for firing Twitter employees over the weekend. Last weekend, Musk removed a significant number of employees again and however now he is rewarding the remaining employees that they will receive significant performance-based stock awards on March 24. According to a report by The Verge, Elon Musk has sent out a memo titled 'Performance Awards' to Twitter employees. The memo promises that the remaining employees will receive ‘very significant’ performance-based stock awards. The awards will be given out on March 24th. In the memo Musk said, "This past week, we completed a difficult organizational overhaul focused on improving future execution, using as much feedback as we could gather from the entire company. Those who remain are highly regarded by those around them." It is worth mentioning that, the memo titled "Performance Awards", was Musk's first message to Twitter employees since he fired hundreds more employees over the weekend, including some senior loyalists and almost the whole product team. ALSO READ| Elon Musk forming team to develop AI rival of ChatGPT: Report However, Musk hasn't yet shared any details about "how he will make up for the stock awards that went away when he took Twitter private", the report said. Previously he also made internal comments in which he mentioned the structure he established at SpaceX to allow employees to regularly sell the company's stock to interested investors. With this recent cut, Musk has done at least four rounds of layoffs. To be noted, Elon Musk laid off around 200 Twitter employees over the weekend which translates to around 10 per cent of the total remaining employee count. Twitter also removed some executives including Musk loyalist Esther Crawford who was positioned to roll out Twitter Blue. Now, the company likely has less than 2,000 employees, which was about 7,500 when Musk took over. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE

Elon Musk promises stock awards to Twitter employees after recent layoffs

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