23-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing accusations of spreading hatred against Muslims after controversial comments on Sunday wherein he equated the community to “infiltrators” and peddled anti-Muslim tropes in the middle of the country’s general elections. Speaking at a crowded rally in …
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23-04-2024 BERLIN: Three German citizens were arrested on Monday after Germany’s federal prosecutor alleged they were involved in transferring research on technologically advanced machine parts for ship engines to China’s secret service. The suspects, whose names were listed as Herwig F., Ina F., and Thomas R., due to German privacy …
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23-04-2024 JERUSALEM: The Israeli military’s intelligence chief has resigned, saying he took responsibility for the failures before Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Major General Aharon Haliva would retire once his successor was selected. He acknowledged in a letter that his intelligence directorate …
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23-04-2024 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ambitious $500 billion Neom linear city project “The Line”, which was originally planned to be stretched for 170 kilometres, is set to be scaled down by 98.6%, according to The Cradle. Bloomberg reported that instead of the original plan to cover an area of 170 kilometres …
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23-04-2024 LONDON: A British-born Pakistani Dr Saqib Iqbal Qureshi has published a book with focus on Muslim voices in the West being stifled and punished for their advocacy of Palestinian rights to life. Dr Qureshi’s booked titled “Being Muslim Today: Reclaiming the Faith from Orthodoxy and Islamophobia” is published at …
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23-04-2024 BOGOTA: Tens of thousands of Colombians marched on Sunday to reject economic and social reforms being proposed by the leftist government of President Gustavo Petro, the latest in a series of demonstrations against Petro’s policies. The reforms, which Petro says will fight deep inequality but which opponents say will …
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23-04-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: Armed gangs launched fresh attacks on parts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince ahead of the installation of a transitional council set to usher in a new government, local media said on Sunday, reporting arson and heavy gunfire in the city centre. The Lower Delmas area is turning into “a …
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22-04-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON/ GAZA CITY: Emergency services in Gaza retrieve the bodies of 50 Palestinians from a mass grave at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, two weeks after Israeli forces withdrew from the area. A pregnant woman and six children are among 16 Palestinians killed in …
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22-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MANIPUR: India, staging the world’s biggest election, will rerun voting at 11 polling stations in the northeastern state of Manipur on Monday after reports of violence and damage to voting machines in the state torn by months of ethnic clashes. The election authorities …
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22-04-2024 SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE: Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday, calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals to stem a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction that is driving up housing costs for locals. Holding placards reading “People live here” and “We …
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