25-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: The Indian rupee hit a record low on Tuesday, hurt by lingering concerns over the impact of steep US tariffs and a sharp jump in H-1B visa fees, though likely central bank intervention helped limit the losses. The currency slid to 88.7975 per dollar …
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25-09-2025 KHARTOUM: In the corridors of Omdurman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, the corridors have turned into a makeshift ward for patients with dengue fever amid an outbreak of the disease spread by mosquitoes. The ongoing rainy season has created the ideal breeding ground for the disease to spread, with thousands …
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25-09-2025 BEIJING/ WASHINGTON: China railed for years against the United States’s bid to force the sale of TikTok, once accusing Washington of demonstrating “robbers’ logic” in response to the platform’s success. Now, Beijing is touting talks on how the video-sharing platform’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, might relinquish ownership of its US …
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25-09-2025 UNITED NATIONS: France, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Andorra and Belgium have formally recognized a Palestinian state at the 80th session of the General Assembly (UNGA). They join Canada, Australia and Portugal, as well as the United Kingdom, which announced its recognition on Sunday, as Israel pushes ahead with settlement expansion …
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Trump urges Gaza war to end ‘immediately’ 24-09-2025 NEW YORK: United States President Donald Trump has told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the war in Gaza must stop immediately, while calling the recent recognition of Palestinian statehood by several Western countries a “reward” for Hamas. “We have to …
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24-09-2025 KATHMANDU: Nepal’s interim government, led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, has set up a panel to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests this month that killed 74 people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to quit, a minister said on Monday. The demonstrations, which began as a …
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24-09-2025 PYONGYANG: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said there was no reason to avoid talks with the US if Washington stopped insisting his country give up nuclear weapons but he would never abandon the nuclear arsenal to end sanctions, state media reported on Monday. “Personally, I still have fond memories …
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24-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to respond to a plea seeking an independent investigation into the Air India plane crash on June 12 that killed 260 people. The top court was responding to a public interest litigation filed by NGO Safety Matters …
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24-09-2025 TEHRAN: Hardline lawmakers in Iran have once again demanded the country start building a nuclear bomb as Western powers are days away from reimposing United Nations sanctions amid concerns war could restart with Israel. Led by a lawmaker from the ultraconservative holy Shia city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, …
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24-09-2025 KABUL: The Taliban government has rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to regain control of Bagram Air Base, which the United States abandoned to the Afghan government during its military withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country four years ago. The United States left the country in a hasty exit that …
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