29-04-2024 LONDON: A gold watch found on the body of the richest passenger on the Titanic has been auctioned in the United Kingdom for 1.17 million British pounds ($1.46m), a record sum paid for an object linked to the infamous 1912 shipping disaster. The watch, engraved with the initials JJA …
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29-04-2024 BEIRUT: Missiles fired from southern Lebanon were caught on camera as they hit Meron, a farming collective in northern Israel. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the rockets, several of which seemed to make it through Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system. Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said Saturday it had targeted …
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29-04-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Hundreds of students have been arrested across universities in the United States as protesters continue to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from companies enabling Israel’s nearly seven-month war on the Palestinian enclave. Police were out in full force on college campuses on Saturday, some …
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29-04-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: News in the Middle East moves fast. One moment it is all about unprecedented missile and drone attacks between Iran and Israel. The next the headlines return to the fighting and suffering in Gaza but policymakers, analysts and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange …
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29-04-2024 MADRID: Thousands of supporters of Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, have rallied in the streets of Madrid in an effort to persuade him not to resign. The Socialist leader stunned the country on Wednesday by announcing he was cancelling all official engagements in order to reflect on his future. …
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29-04-2024 BERLIN: Six suspected spies have been arrested in Germany this month alone, in what has become a torrent of allegations of Russian and Chinese espionage. For the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party it has proved especially embarrassing, because their top two candidates for the European elections in June …
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29-04-2024 BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill criminalizing same-sex relationships with jail terms of between 10 and 15 years. Transgender people could also be sent to prison for between one and three years under the new law. Supporters of the changes say they will help to uphold religious values …
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29-04-2024 GAZA CITY/ CAIRO: Hamas has published a video showing the first proof of life of two more hostages being held in Gaza. In undated footage filmed under duress, Omri Miran says he has been held for 202 days and Keith Siegel mentions this week’s Passover holiday, indicating the clips …
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28-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ PORBANDAR: The Indian Coast Guard today intercepted a suspicious Pakistani boat that had nearly 86 kg of drugs worth millions of rupees. Acting on intelligence, the Coast Guard along with the Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), launched a crackdown …
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28-04-2024 NEW YORK: Columbia University’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school. President Nemat Minouche Shafik has faced an outcry from many students, faculty and outside observers for …
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