17-05-2026 LONDON: The “Great British People” Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing “the overwhelming scale of mass immigration” and asking viewers if they miss …
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17-05-2026 SYDNEY: A Sydney court has doubled the discrimination payout for an Australian Trans woman who was kicked off a female-only app. It comes almost two years after Roxanne Tickle successfully sued Sall Grover, founder of the Giggle for Girls app, for blocking her account on the grounds of gender …
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17-05-2026 HAVANA: CIA director John Ratcliffe has met his Cuban counterpart at the interior ministry in Havana, after the US renewed an offer of $100m (£74m) of aid to ease the effects of its oil blockade. A Cuban statement said the meeting was an attempt to improve dialogue and American …
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17-05-2026 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An attack on a security compound in northwest Pakistan has killed several paramilitary officers, with the Afghan-based Pakistan Taliban (TTP) claiming responsibility. An armed group rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into the Bajaur district camp’s gate on Thursday and then …
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16-05-2026 NAIROBI: France’s President Emmanuel Macron has hosted a high-level meeting of heads of state and business leaders alongside his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, as Paris continues to pivot to other parts of the continent due to its strained relations with French-speaking West African countries. The conference, which was held …
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16-05-2026 BEIRUT: At least 15 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon, according to the National News Agency including eight people, two of them children killed in three Israeli drone attacks on a key highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon. A photograph of the bombed cars shared by …
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16-05-2026 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: For the past two years, Manas Sharma’s life revolved around one goal cracking the tough exam that would get him admission to a medical college in India so he could become a doctor but the exam, the National Eligibility Entrance Test (Undergraduate), known …
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16-05-2026 MANILA: The Philippine Senate was locked down with military personnel seen entering the building where a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) had sought refuge. Rounds of gunfire were heard but officials have not revealed who fired the shots. They said there were no casualties. Senator Ronald …
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16-05-2026 MOSCOW: Russia has placed British former Defence Minister Ben Wallace on a wanted list in connection with an unspecified criminal investigation, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s database cited by state media. State-run news agency TASS quoted an unnamed source in law enforcement as saying that the investigation was …
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16-05-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ RANN OF KUTCH: India faces brutal heatwaves each year, but few places are as punishing as the salt pans of the western state of Gujarat, where tens of thousands of workers endure near-unlivable conditions to keep the industry running. Up to 50,000 seasonal workers migrate …
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