29-04-2025 ISLAMABAD: Tensions between India and Pakistan have soared since the April 22 attack on tourists in the scenic resort town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, in which at least 26 people were killed. Both countries have announced a series of tit-for-tat measures, raising fears of a wider confrontation. After …
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29-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Police have detained 1,024 Bangladeshi migrants including women and children in a sweeping crackdown in the western state aimed at deporting people living there illegally. The central government often describes undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants as “infiltrators”, accusing them of posing a threat …
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29-04-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces have killed at least 71 Palestinians in the past 24-hour reporting period, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. A Palestinian envoy accuses Israel of using humanitarian aid as a “weapon of war” during International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings as Gaza faces mass …
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29-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Pakistan’s defence minister said on Monday that a military incursion by neighboring India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly militant attack on tourists in Kashmir last week, as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations. The militant attack killed …
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29-04-2025 VATICAN CITY: Cardinals will meet next month in a secret conclave to elect the next pope, the Vatican has said. The closed-door meeting will start inside the Sistine Chapel on 7 May and will involve some 135 cardinals from across the world. It follows the death of Pope Francis …
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29-04-2025 PARIS/ LYON: Twenty-five people have been arrested in early morning raids across France in response to a wave of coordinated attacks on prisons and the homes of prison officers in April. Raids are taking place across the country on Monday including in the capital Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux in …
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29-04-2025 BEIJING: The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a regional dispute with the Philippines. State broadcaster CCTV released images of four officers, wearing all black and holding the Chinese flag, standing on the disputed reef …
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29-04-2025 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel carried out an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, after ordering an evacuation of a building that it said was being used by the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah. The attack occurred despite a ceasefire that came into force five months ago which put an end …
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28-04-2025 MOSCOW: Russia’s military says it has regained full control of the country’s western Kursk region, a claim denied by Ukraine. Top Russian commander Valery Gerasimov said the last village held by Ukrainian troops had now been recaptured, eight months after Kyiv’s surprise incursion. He also praised the “heroism” of …
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28-04-2025 LONDON: British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil has held its final demonstration in London, ending three years of high-profile climate protest stunts as they moved their focus away from civil disobedience. Yesterday everal hundred supporters walked peacefully through the centre of the UK capital, from parliament to the …
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