05-01-2024 CATICAN CITY: In response to the disquiet among Catholic bishops, particularly in certain African countries, following the approval of blessings for same-sex couples last month, the Vatican issued a five-page statement on Thursday to assuage concerns. The statement from the Vatican’s doctrinal office emphasized that the measure is neither …
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05-01-2024 DHAKA: Troops deployed across Bangladesh on Wednesday amid fears of violence ahead of a national election which the main opposition party is boycotting. Soldiers travelled in armoured vehicles to temporary camps set up across the capital Dhaka to help the civil administration maintain peace and security. The Bangladesh Nationalist …
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05-01-2024 UNITED NATIONS: Members of the UN Security Council on Wednesday called on Yemen’s Houthis to halt their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, saying they are illegal and threaten regional stability, freedom of navigation and global food supplies. Addressing the council’s first formal meeting …
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05-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court said the Adani Group does not need to face more investigations beyond the current scrutiny of the market regulator, a major relief for the conglomerate hit hard by a US short-seller’s allegations of wrongdoing. The Securities and Exchange Board of …
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05-01-2024 ADDIS ABABA: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Tuesday it was open to an immediate, unconditional ceasefire through talks with the Sudanese army as it signed a declaration with the Taqadum civilian coalition and invited the army to do the same. A nine-month war in Sudan, which …
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05-01-2024 BEIRUT/ CAIRO/ GAZA: Israeli forces kept up their assault on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and told civilians to leave a refugee camp in the north of the Palestinian enclave after the war reached into Lebanon with the killing in Beirut of the Hamas deputy leader. Israel has neither …
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05-01-2024 COPENHAGEN: Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in Western Europe caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) in the …
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04-01-2024 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed a “harsh response” to a bomb attack on crowds marking the anniversary of spymaster Qasem Soleimani’s assassination by the US. The attack in Kerman in southern Iran killed 84 people and wounded many more. The death toll was revised down …
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04-01-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel Wednesday against waging war on Lebanon, a day after a strike blamed on Israel killed Hamas’s number two in the group’s southern Beirut suburbs stronghold. “If the enemy thinks of waging a war on Lebanon, we will fight without restraint, without rules, …
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04-01-2024 NEW JERSEY: Authorities in Newark said that an imam of a mosque was shot and killed at South Orange Avenue who was taken to hospital in a critical condition. As the authorities arrived at the scene, Sharif was found lying in the parking, 10 feet from the mosque entrance. …
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