11-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party suffered a setback on Friday as a tax tribunal dismissed its appeal to pause recovery of 1.35 billion rupees ($16.32 million) in income tax from its bank accounts, weeks before national elections. A part of the Congress’ bank …
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11-03-2024 WASHINGTON: The 2024 presidential general election is here, for all intents and purposes. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are set to face off in the first presidential rematch since 1956. It’s also the first rematch between a current and a former president since 1892 but unlike in 2020 when …
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11-03-2024 CAIRO/ SANA’A/ DAMASCUS: US, French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune and US destroyers in the region, the US military said in a statement. The Houthis have been attacking ships …
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10-03-2024 CYPRUS: A US military ship is sailing towards the Middle East, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza, the army says. The support ship, General Frank S Besson, set sail from a military base in the state of Virginia on Saturday. It comes after …
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10-03-2024 BOSTON: Microsoft said Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. The hackers from Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service …
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10-03-2024 ANKARA: A Turkish court on Friday arrested six people, including five former police officers, on charges of spying for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Unauthorized firearms, drugs, digital materials, documents, surveillance equipment, radios and a sum of money in various currencies were seized during the operation in which police …
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10-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: India began deporting the first group of Myanmar refugees who sought shelter there after a military coup in 2021 and plans to send back more in the coming days, weeks after saying it would end a visa-free border policy with Myanmar. Thousands …
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10-03-2024 PYONGYANG: Tightened border controls introduced to curb COVID-19 are still strangling North Korea’s economic activity and informal trade networks more than 18 months after leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over the pandemic, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. North Korea was one of the first countries to act …
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10-03-2024 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran has condemned a report by United Nations experts who concluded the Islamic republic’s violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations, with many amounting to crimes against humanity. The report was built on “baseless …
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10-03-2024 STOCKHOLM/ OTTAWA/ GAZA CITY: Sweden and Canada have said they will resume aid payments to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. They were among 16 countries that paused funds after Israel accused at least 12 UNRWA staff of involvement in the 7 October attack by Hamas. The UN …
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