23-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURE: Bengaluru is facing an acute water shortage this year, months before peak summer, forcing many residents in “India’s Silicon Valley” to ration their water use and pay almost double the usual price to meet their daily needs. Weak southwest monsoon rains have …
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23-02-2024 RAFAH, GAZA STRIP: Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza’s south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave’s health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far. In Jerusalem, Israeli war cabinet member …
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23-02-2024 MOSCOW: Russia is struggling to provide ammunition and weapons for its war in Ukraine, according to Western officials. It is facing “extreme challenges” in obtaining sufficient equipment and materiel, an official said. It comes as concerns over the provision of Western weapons to Ukraine are mounting. As the war …
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23-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Australian bishop Christopher Saunders has been charged with rape and a string of historical sex offences, some against children. The 74-year-old was arrested in Broome on Wednesday, after parallel investigations ordered by Western Australian police and the Pope. Saunders, who has denied allegations in …
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22-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SHAMBHU: Indian police fired tear gas and water cannons on Wednesday to scatter thousands of farmers trying to stage a protest march to Delhi after they rejected a government offer on prices for their produce, prompting an offer of fresh talks. The farmers, …
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22-02-2024 BEIJING: China has sharply criticized the US for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Beijing said the move sent the “wrong message” and effectively gave a “green light to the continued slaughter”. The White House said the Algerian-proposed resolution would “jeopardize” talks to …
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22-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Australian wages grew at the fastest annual pace in 15 years in the fourth quarter as low unemployment and stiff competition for workers pushed up pay deals, although analysts suspect the best is over as the economy sputters. Figures from the Australian Bureau of …
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22-02-2024 JOHANNESBURG: South Africa will hold national and provincial elections on May 29, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said on Tuesday. The elections are expected to be the most competitive since the end of the apartheid system. Political analysts widely predict that the governing African National Congress (ANC) party will lose …
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22-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India will invite private firms to invest about $26 billion in its nuclear energy sector to increase the amount of electricity from sources that don’t produce carbon dioxide emissions, two government sources told Reuters. This is the first time New Delhi is pursuing …
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22-02-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ AMMAN: Two senior U.S lawmakers who held talks with Israeli and Arab leaders said on Tuesday that they were hopeful a deal could be struck allowing a humanitarian pause in the war in Gaza before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In an interview with Reuters in …
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