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US & Ukraine meet ahead of Russia ceasefire talks

25-03-2025 RIYADH: US negotiators are holding talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh with their Ukrainian counterparts and separately with the Russians on Monday. Washington’s aim is to bring about an immediate partial ceasefire to the war in Ukraine, followed by a comprehensive peace deal. So could these Riyadh talks produce …

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Turkish President Erdogan’s main rival jailed

25-03-2025 ISTANBUL: The main rival to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with corruption. Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, was due to be selected as the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2028 presidential nominee in a vote on Sunday. He has denied the allegations and …

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Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 immigrants in the US

24-03-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 people including Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice. The move, the latest expansion of Trump’s crackdown on immigration, is effective from April 24, and cuts …

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Heathrow Airport orders probe into shutdown

24-03-2025 LONDON: London’s Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday and ordered a probe into how it dealt with a power outage that shut Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day as airlines warned of further delays and cancellations. British Airways, opens new tab, whose main hub is Heathrow, …

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US lifts $10m reward for major Taliban leader Haqqani

24-03-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States has lifted a $10m reward for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesperson says. Despite the announcement on Saturday, the FBI still lists the reward on its website, saying Haqqani was “believed to …

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UN warns amid renewed violence in South Sudan

24-03-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ JOHANNESBURG: Another conflict is looming in the world’s youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its foundation. A tenuous power-sharing deal is teetering on the brink. An evacuation of non-emergency US government employees is underway, and …

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