29-12-2024 ISTANBUL/ DAMASCUS: Nearly 31,000 Syrians have returned home since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, according to the interior minister of neighboring Turkiye, which shelters some 3 million Syrian refugees. Meanwhile, inside the country on Friday, Syrians rallied for a day of remembrance in honor of the victims of …
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29-12-2024 HELSINKI: NATO said on Friday it would boost its presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage this week of an undersea power cable and four internet cables, while alliance member Estonia launched a naval operation to guard a parallel electricity link. Finland on Thursday seized a ship …
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29-12-2024 DAMASCUS/ SANA’A: A Houthi political official says the group will continue attacking Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians despite the escalating Israeli air strikes in Yemen. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told media that the Houthis would “escalate our military targeting of Israel” until it stopped what he described as “the genocide …
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29-12-2024 TEHRAN: Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Tehran, Italy’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was “stopped by Tehran police” on December 19, the statement said, adding that the foreign ministry “has worked with the Iranian authorities …
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28-12-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KARACHI/ LAHORE/ PESHAWAR/ QUETTA/ ISLAMABAD: The ongoing sit-ins organized by the Majlis Wehdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) over the killings in Parachinar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district, have extended across Pakistan, causing significant disruptions. The protests, originally held in solidarity with the people of Parachinar who have …
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28-12-2024 MADRID: More than 10,000 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea this year, a report released by a Spanish migration rights group has revealed, the most since it began keeping a tally in 2007. On average, that means 30 migrants died every day this year attempting to …
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28-12-2024 SANA’A: The Kamal Adwan Hospital’s director said about 50 people have been killed, including five medical staff, in an Israeli air strike on a building near the hospital in northern Gaza. Israel attacked a house overnight in Gaza City, killing at least nine people, the Palestinian news agency Wafa …
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28-12-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Indian banks’ financial position has stayed robust, marked by the sustained expansion in loans and deposits, while their gross bad loan ratio has dropped to multi-year lows, a central bank report showed on Thursday. Banks’ gross non-performing assets ratio (NPA), or the …
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28-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Syria’s new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops in an “ambush” in the west of the country. They say 10 other troops were wounded in the fighting on Tuesday near the Mediterranean port of Tartous, a stronghold of Assad’s …
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28-12-2024 MOSCOW/ BAKU: The Russian government has cautioned against promoting “hypotheses” about the cause of the crash of a Russia-bound passenger plane that killed 38 people in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Some aviation experts suggested that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been hit by air defence systems over the Russian republic …
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