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US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to pass information about American nuclear-powered submarines to someone they thought was a foreign state but was actually an undercover FBI agent.

The Swedish Academy said David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens, have given us fresh insights into the labour market and demonstrated how natural experiments may be used to derive conclusions about cause and effect.

During the protest, a former government employee also expressed frustration with the Taliban and said that the government formed by the group will collapse if women are not included in decision making.

Vaccination appears to be almost as effective against the Delta form, with 84 per cent protection for those 75 and older and 92 per cent protection for those 50 to 75. That estimate, however, is based on only one month of data, as the variation only became prevalent in France in June

Active-duty members of the Navy and Marine Corps have time till November 28 to show proof of full vaccination against Covid-19.
 

The Pentagon said that the meeting was "candid and professional" and that the US side reiterated that the Taliban would be judged on their actions, not just their words.

Officials said that during the meeting, the Indian side made constructive suggestions for resolving the issues in the remaining areas but the Chinese side did not agree to them and also failed to provide any forward-looking proposals. 

Seven people were pulled alive from the wreckage, officials said. The remaining sixteen are "without signs of life," a representative of the emergency services told the RIA Novosti news agency.

Father of Pakistan's nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan was battling lung related problems and succumbed on Sunday.

The worldwide campaign for a minimal international tax on large businesses took a step closer to reality on Friday, when Hungary, one of the last holdouts, decided to join a proposal that now has 136 signatories.