03-07-2024 MIAMI, FLORIDA: Hurricane Beryl has intensified into a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm, the United States’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, as it headed towards Jamaica after bringing down power lines, damaging houses and flooding streets on other southeastern Caribbean islands. Beryl, the earliest Category 4 storm ever reported, …
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03-07-2024 More than 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies, including Amazon, BMW, Nestle, Rio Tinto, Pfizer, Shein, and Standard Chartered, are failing to meet societal expectations towards human rights, working conditions and corporate ethics, a first-of-its-kind assessment has found. Despite commanding revenues equal to 45 percent of …
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03-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Joe Biden has described as a “dangerous precedent” a Supreme Court ruling giving former President Donald Trump partial immunity from criminal prosecution. The current US president said the judgement undermined the “rule of law” and was “a terrible disservice” to Americans. Earlier, Trump hailed the court’s decision as …
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03-07-2024 PARIS: French voters are waiting to see the full line-up for the second round of parliamentary elections, as scores of candidates stood aside in order to help defeat the far-right National Rally (RN). Parties have until 18:00 (17:00 BST) Tuesday evening to register contenders for Sunday. Only then will …
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03-07-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan will continue to launch attacks against Afghanistan as part of a new military operation aimed at countering terrorism, the country’s defence minister has told media. Khawaja Asif said the aerial strikes were targeting groups which Pakistan accuses of targeting security forces …
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03-07-2024 GAZA CITY/ KHAN YOUNIS: The UN says 250,000 Palestinians in southern Gaza have been affected by evacuation orders from the Israeli military. Many people have been fleeing areas in and around the second city of Khan Younis on foot and by car. Patients and medical staff have also been …
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03-07-2024 NEW DELHI/ HATHRAS: Over 100 people have died and dozens injured in a stampede at a religious event in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, authorities said. The stampede happened on Tuesday in a village in Hathras district, about 200km (125 miles) southeast of national capital New Delhi. Government …
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02-07-2024 BRUSSELS: The European Commission (EC) has charged Meta with breaching the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) via its new “pay or consent” advertising model. The charge announced on Monday follows the tech giant’s launch of the no-ads subscription service for Facebook and Instagram in Europe last November. The move …
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02-07-2024 TORONTO: Canada’s WestJet has cancelled more than 800 flights after mechanics walked off the job, upending the travel plans of thousands of people over the Canada Day long weekend. Some 680 workers have been on strike since Friday after the Calgary-based airline and the Airplane Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) …
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02-07-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan is set to start the second phase of a controversial plan to send undocumented Afghan refugees back to their country. Beginning Sunday, authorities are likely to expel more than 800,000 Afghans from the country, after about 541,000 were forced to leave in the …
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