21-11-2024 BERLIN: Germany says it assumes that damage caused to two telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea is an act of sabotage as European nations condemn the alleged Russian attacks on their “security architecture”. German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday that no one believes the …
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21-11-2024 GAZA CITY: The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza says the facility is experiencing an “extreme catastrophe” with Israeli forces firing on the building as children and elderly patients suffering from malnutrition seek treatment there. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking from Gaza, says Hamas will no …
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21-11-2024 LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles, the second largest US city, is setting itself up for a standoff with President-elect Donald Trump over immigration. On Tuesday, its city council passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance to bar using local resources to help federal immigration authorities. LA’s public school system also reaffirmed itself …
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21-11-2024 DOHA: The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman said Hamas’s office no longer had a function because Qatar had suspended its mediation efforts …
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20-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration would declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. In an early morning social media post, Trump responded “TRUE!!!” to a post by Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative group …
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20-11-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Pollution levels in India’s capital, Delhi, have soared to their highest levels this year, forcing schools and offices to close and cloaking the city in thick brown smog. In some parts of the city, a live air quality ranking by IQAir put pollution levels at …
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20-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: A convoy of 109 UN aid Lorries carrying food was violently looted in Gaza on Saturday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says. Ninety-seven of the Lorries were lost and their drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload their aid after passing through the Israeli-controlled Kerem …
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20-11-2024 LONDON/ KHARTOUM: In a move strongly condemned by the UK and US, Russia has vetoed a draft UK-backed UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy called the veto a “disgrace” but Russia accused the UK of meddling in Sudanese affairs without …
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20-11-2024 BERLIN/ Germany and Finland say they are “deeply concerned” after an undersea cable linking the countries was severed. The rupture of the 1,170km (730-mile) telecommunications cable which is being investigated comes at a time of heightened tension with Russia. The two countries’ foreign ministers said in a joint statement: …
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20-11-2024 WELLINGTON: An estimated 35,000 people are protesting in New Zealand’s capital against a bill that they say will redefine the country’s founding treaty with the Māori people, police say Most demonstrators began marching from a Wellington park to the nation’s parliament earlier today, the final leg of a nine-day …
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