09-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces killed at least 49 Palestinians in Gaza over the past day, according to medical sources, including five children in attacks on tents in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi. US President-elect Donald Trump demands that Hamas releases Israeli captives held in Gaza, by the time …
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09-01-2025 NEW YORK: Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style “community notes” where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. In a video posted alongside a blog post by the company on Tuesday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg …
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09-01-2025 OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit back at Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to absorb Canada into the US saying there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell” to join the two. President-elect Trump has in recent weeks repeatedly needled Canada about it becoming the 51st …
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09-01-2025 LHASA: Rescuers searched into the night for survivors after a major earthquake killed at least 126 people and damaged more than 3,000 buildings in a remote part of the Chinese region of Tibet, near Everest. Another 188 people were injured after the earthquake hit the foothills of the Himalayas …
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09-01-2025 LONDON: Few European leaders have felt the lash of Elon Musk’s social media outbursts more than Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The tech-billionaire owner of X has called him an “incompetent fool” and urged him to resign. On Thursday Musk will use his platform to host Alice Weidel, the head …
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09-01-2025 WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump is showing no sign of letting up in his desire for the US to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, calling both critical to American national security. Asked by a reporter if he would rule out using military or economic force in order to take …
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08-01-2025 NAIROBI: The head of Uganda’s military, who is also the son of longstanding President Yoweri Museveni, said he wanted to behead the country’s most prominent opposition leader. Muhoozi Kainerugaba is widely believed to be the heir apparent to his father, who has governed Uganda since 1986. Kainerugaba routinely makes …
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08-01-2025 PARIS MANAMA/ VIENNA: Iran’s disputed uranium enrichment drive is nearing a point of no return and European partners to a moribund 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran should consider re-imposing sanctions if there is no progress with Tehran, France’s president said on Monday. Addressing an annual conference with French ambassadors …
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08-01-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies BENGALURU: Funding in India’s space sector, a key part of the country’s ambitions to become a global superpower, plummeted by 55% in 2024 to $59.1 million from $130.2 million the previous year, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. The drop, which came amid …
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08-01-2025 DAMASCUS: On the edge of Douma, one of the Damascus suburbs most devastated by the war, in a shrouded living room next to a stove, Umm Mazen recounts the 12 years she desperately sought news of two of her sons, who were arrested in the first years of the …
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