08-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Global private equity firm Advent International’s talks to acquire US giant Whirlpool’s India unit for up to $1 billion have collapsed due to disagreements over valuation, four people familiar with the matter told media. Advent had emerged as the frontrunner to acquire a 31% …
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08-12-2025 COLOMBO/ BANGKOK: Rescue teams and volunteers have been struggling to assist millions of people affected by floods and landslides in parts of Asia, as the official death toll from the ongoing climate-fueled disaster has climbed to more than 1,750 people in the worst-affected countries of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and …
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08-12-2025 WASHINGTON: Since early September, the United States has carried out at least 22 declared military strikes targeting alleged drug-trafficking vessels off the coast of Latin America. Legal experts and international officials say that the attacks, which have killed at least 86 people, are a violation of the law and …
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08-12-2025 DOHA: The nearly two-month-old ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will not be complete until Israeli troops withdraw from the Palestinian territory under a peace plan backed by Washington and the United Nations, mediator Qatar’s Prime Minister (PM) said yesterday. “Now we are at the critical moment … A ceasefire …
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07-12-2025 SAN FRANCISCO: An alert that Nevada had been rocked by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake early Thursday sent phones buzzing briefly before the US Geological Survey quickly deleted the warning from its website and said it had been sent in error. The alert for what would have been one of the …
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07-12-2025 VATICAN CITY: A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday. The commission, in a 7-1 vote, said historical research and theological investigation “excludes the …
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07-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: IndiGo has told India’s aviation regulator its operations will be fully restored by February 10, and has asked for relief from some provisions that limit pilot duty hours at night after the airline cancelled hundreds of flights this week due to a shortage of …
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07-12-2025 DUBLIN: Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain have said they will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, following the decision to allow Israel to compete. The response on Thursday came immediately after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the competition, said there would not be a vote on …
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07-12-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to sign a peace deal that could end the conflict between the two countries. Although the violence on the ground has not stopped, Trump hailed the US-brokered deal on …
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07-12-2025 GAZA STRIP: The killing of Gaza militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab, confirmed by his Popular Forces group and by Israeli media, is the final chapter of a man who tried to present himself with Israeli support as an alternative to Hamas, but who was widely derided by Palestinians as …
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