18-10-2024 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused India of making a “massive mistake” that Canada could not ignore if Delhi was behind the death of a Sikh separatist leader last year on Canadian soil. Trudeau made the comments two days after Canadian officials accused India of being …
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18-10-2024 WASHINGTON/ SANA’A: The US says it has carried out “precision strikes” against five weapons storage locations in areas of Yemen controlled by the Houthi movement. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said B-2 Spirit stealth bombers were part of the operation that targeted hardened underground facilities housing missiles and other munitions …
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18-10-2024 BRUSSELS: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the EU could “draw lessons” from a contested Italian policy of processing migrants offshore in Albania, as leaders of the 27 member states hold an EU summit focusing on migration. Ahead of the Brussels summit, she wrote to EU …
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17-10-2024 GENEVA: Millions of people across southern Africa are facing the worst food crisis in decades, the World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday, warning that its ability to provide relief risks being stymied by funding shortfalls. Amid unprecedented drought conditions, a record five countries Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and …
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17-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s main opposition Congress party has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to take all political parties into confidence regarding worsening ties with Canada a day after the two countries said they expelled each other’s diplomats. Ties deteriorated further on Monday with …
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17-10-2024 BEIRUT: At least 10 people have been killed in Israeli bombings of homes and a healthcare centre in Qana, a Lebanese village that suffered Israeli massacres in 1996 and 2006. Israeli attacks killed at least 61 people across Gaza on Tuesday, including 10 members of the Abu Taamiya family. …
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17-10-2024 The US has hit Lufthansa with a record $4m (3m) penalty after the airline barred Jewish passengers from a 2022 flight because some allegedly refused to follow rules requiring face masks. The Department of Transportation said Lufthansa discriminated against the passengers, treating them “as if they were all a …
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17-10-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: The US has written to Israel, giving it 30 days to boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or risk having some US military assistance cut off. The letter, sent on Sunday, amounts to the strongest known written warning from the US to its ally and …
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17-10-2024 PARIS/ ROME: French and Italian police say they have broken up an international fraud ring that was passing poor quality bottles of wine off as vintages worth up to €15,000 (£12,500) each. Six people including a Russian national who is the suspected ringleader have been arrested in Paris, Turin …
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17-10-2024 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI: India and Canada have expelled their top diplomats amid escalating tensions over the assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil, marking a new low in a historically cordial relationship. While past disagreements have strained ties, none have reached this level of open confrontation. In 1974, …
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