19-01-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ GENEVA: Attacks on aid convoys in the Gaza Strip by looters and armed gangs could decline as humanitarian relief floods the area after the truce takes effect between Israel and Palestinian militants, the head of the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA said on Friday. He said UNRWA …
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19-01-2025 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by signing a 20-year strategic partnership that is likely to worry the West. Under the agreement, Russia and Iran will boost cooperation in a range of areas including their security …
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19-01-2025 NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Seven Indian privately-held startups have been chosen for a first-of-its-kind India-US space and defence collaboration program, potentially unlocking a lucrative and strategic market for Indian firms, an investor who co-launched the project told Reuters on Friday. The companies include space imaging company KaleidEO, rocket makers EtherealX …
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19-01-2025 KHARTOUM: South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has called for calm and urged citizens not to take the law into their own hands, following a spate of attacks on businesses and homes owned by people from neighboring Sudan. Three people have been killed and seven were wounded in violent confrontations …
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18-01-2025 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans TikTok in the US unless its China-based parent company ByteDance sells the platform by this Sunday. TikTok had challenged the law, arguing it would violate free speech protections for the more than 170 million users it says it …
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18-01-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation. The …
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19-01-2025 BENGALURU: India became the world’s fourth nation on Thursday to achieve the feet of space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its share of a rapidly growing $400-billion global space market. Target and Chaser, two satellites of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) that are …
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18-01-2025 LONDON: Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or join official security forces, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said. The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in …
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18-01-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: The latest test of Space X’s giant Starship rocket has failed, minutes after launch. Officials at Elon Musk’s company said the upper stage was lost after problems developed after lift-off from Texas on Thursday. The mission came hours after the first flight of the Blue Origin …
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18-01-2025 KATHMANDU: In a remote village in western Nepal, thousands of miles from Israel, Mahananda Joshi was sitting restlessly at home on Thursday, his phone in his hand. The phone is never far from his hand now and never on silent. He is waiting for news of his son, Bipin …
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