08-05-2024 LONDON: Britain’s Ministry of Defence has been the target of a large-scale cyberattack, a government minister confirmed to British media. On Tuesday, Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride told Sky News, which first reported the hack, that the attack was on a system run by an outside firm but …
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08-05-2024 JERUSALEM/ DOHA: Israel’s cabinet unanimously voted to shut down Al Jazeera in the country on Sunday, immediately ordering the closure of its offices and a ban on the company’s broadcasts. The decision was announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X. Hours later, Israel’s Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi …
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08-05-2024 PARIS/ WASHINGTON: Boeing has called off the inaugural crewed flight CST-100 Starliner space capsule after engineers detected an issue with a rocket valve. The decision to call off the launch on Monday came two hours before the scheduled liftoff and about an hour after two NASA astronauts had strapped …
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08-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BARPETA: As India votes in a six-week general election, Narendra Modi’s image adorns everything from packs of rice handed out to the poor to large posters in cities and towns. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is relying on the prime minister’s popularity as …
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07-05-2024 RAFAH/ GAZA CITY/ CAIRO: Israel’s army has said it has conducted “targeted strikes” against Hamas in eastern Rafah, after rejecting Hamas’s agreement to a ceasefire deal. Armed factions in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel in response Hamas had earlier said it would accept a ceasefire deal drawn up …
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07-05-2024 BOSTON: A lucky lottery winner has hit not only one $1 million grand prize, but two in less than three months. Christine Wilson of Attleborough, Massachusetts, learned of her first win back in February. On Feb. 23, Wilson claimed her $1 million grand prize after playing the “Lifetime Millions” …
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07-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s top diplomat in India stepped down after she was accused of smuggling nearly $2 million worth of gold into the country, as per media reports. Zakia Wardak, the Afghan Consul-General in India’s Mumbai, confirmed her resignation on her official X …
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07-05-2024 JAKARTA/ JERUSALEM: An international investigation has found that at least four Israeli-linked firms have been selling invasive spyware and cyber surveillance technology to Indonesia, which has no formal diplomatic ties with Israel and is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. The research by Amnesty International’s Security Lab based on …
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07-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ CANBERRA: Canada’s investigation into alleged Indian involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver last year is a “political compulsion”, India’s foreign minister has said after three Indian citizens were arrested over the killing. Canadian police on Friday arrested the trio …
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07-05-2024 RAFAH: Israeli air attacks kill at least 10 Palestinians in Rafah as Hamas fires rockets at the Karem Abu Salem crossing, killing three Israeli soldiers and wounding 11 others. The latest round of negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza has ended in the Egyptian capital Cairo, but crucial gaps …
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