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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) working president M.K. Stalin has penned down an emotional letter for his father M Karunanidhi, who passed away on Tuesday after a prolonged illness.

A script writer par excellence, M Karunanidhi began penning scripts for plays as a 20-year-old, his works becoming a vehicle for propagating the principles of the Dravidian movement.

Tanzeela Qambrani from the Ethnic African population in Pakistan won a seat in the provincial parliament from Sindh in the recent general elections held in the country.

The United States will begin collecting 25 per cent tariffs on another $16 billion in Chinese goods on August 23, the USTrade Representative's office said on Tuesday as it published a final tariff list targeting 279 imported product lines.

Colombia's President-elect Ivan Duque was sworn into office on Tuesday (August 07), pledging to unite a divided nation behind his plan to toughen a peace accord with Marxist rebels and rekindle economic growth.