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Donald Trump: A federal judge set the date to start trial against the former US President to March 4 of the next year, rejecting the request to postpone it till 2026. The announcement of the date has placed the trial of one of the country's biggest criminal cases in the history of America in its peak election season.

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India-China tensions: Weeks ahead of the G20 summit slated to be held in New Delhi, China has released a map showing some parts of India as its own. The latest map also shows Taiwan inside China, in what analysts interpreted as transition of 9-dash line into 10-dash line.

X (Formerly Twitter): The social media platform again faced a mass outage. Downdetector, which keeps track of outages by collecting status reports from various sources which includes users, stated that they received more than 17,000 reports of outages till 19:24 ET (23:24 GMT). 

Trump's historic trial in federal election case to begin on March 4, one day before Super Tuesday

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Federal judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the prosecution of United States former president Donald J Trump in the 2020 election subversion conspiracy case, on Monday (August 28) set the date to start trial on March 4, 2024, rejecting the proposal of the accused to postpone it till 2026.

Ahead of G-20 summit, China wrongly depicts parts of India as Chinese territories

Less than a week after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping stood against each other during BRICS summit in Johannesburg, Beijing launched its 2023 edition of 'standard map' that wrongly showed parts of India as Chinese territories. 

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Storm Idalia lashes western Cuba as it intensifies into major hurricane

Western Cuba was lashed by tropical storm Idalia on Tuesday (August 29) and is likely to turn into a major hurricane as it moves towards the Gulf Coast in Floria, where evacuations have been ordered by the officials and residents have been appealed to start preparing for its expected landfall on Wednesday.

Twitter turned 'X' faces another outage, platform down for thousands of users

Social media platform X, which was earlier known as Twitter, is facing a mass outage as thousands of users are facing trouble accessing it in the US on Tuesday (August 29), as reported by outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Watch: India-Japan Space Ties: Lupex to be first-ever joint space mission by the two countries

Another lunar mission planned by ISRO and JAXA will take place in the near future. The LUPEX, or Lunar Polar Exploration, mission is scheduled to launch in 2024–2025. The procedure will get even more difficult as LUPEX investigates the permanently dark polar area of the Moon.

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