28-07-2025 JERUSALEM/ QUETTA: As Israel loudly beat the drums of war one day before its unprovoked surprise attack on Iran, a small but significant piece of news slipped by almost unnoticed; the announcement of a new research project on the website of a Washington, DC think tank. On June 12, …
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28-07-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ PALAKKAD: On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking the tenth instance of Nipah virus spillover (transmission of the pathogen from animals to humans) in the southern Indian state …
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28-07-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israel’s military says it has “recently” made an airdrop of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, following weeks of international pressure and a growing hunger crisis in the Palestinian territory. In a statement early on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the airdrop “included seven …
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27-07-2025 DROSOPIGI ATHENS: Firefighters were battling wildfires near Athens and across Greece on Saturday as the Mediterranean country sweltered under the third heatwave of the summer, with some villages and settlements being evacuated. Explosions could be heard as huge clouds of smoke covered Drosopigi village 25 km north of Athens, …
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27-07-2025 JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON/CAIRO, July 25 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, both saying it had become clear that the Palestinian militants did not want a deal. Netanyahu said Israel was now mulling “alternative” options to …
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27-07-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s biggest paints maker, Asian Paints, opens new tab, is seeking to quash an antitrust inquiry, arguing that officials damaged its reputation by publishing and then deleting, allegations against its CEO from the investigation order, legal papers show. Rapid infrastructure and real estate …
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27-07-2025 LONDON/ WASHINGTON/ VICTORIA: The United Kingdom and the United States have condemned Hong Kong authorities for offering payment in exchange for assisting in the arrest of pro-democracy activists living in the UK and the US, even as the British government begins the process of reinstating an extradition deal with …
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27-07-2025 KUALA LUMPUR: Thousands of Malaysians have taken to the streets to protest rising living costs and a perceived lack of reform by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government. Saturday’s rally, organized by opposition parties, marked the first major protest in Southeast Asia’s sixth largest economy since Anwar was propelled …
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27-07-2025 DAHIYEH/ BEIRUT: Fatima Kandeel, 43, and her two sons moved into a new rented apartment in the southern suburbs of Beirut in March. They had been staying with her sister Aida nearby for four months after a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon had stopped the worst, but not all, …
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27-07-2025 ODDAR MEANCHEY: Explosions reverberated in the distance along the Thai-Cambodia border, as a Cambodian soldier waited his turn for surgery to remove shrapnel embedded in his body from a Thai artillery shell. The soldier said he was injured in fighting with Thai troops on Friday near the ancient Ta …
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