20-05-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV has held “cordial” talks with US Vice-President JD Vance, according to the Vatican. It comes a day after Vance, a practicing Catholic joined other dignitaries and thousands of worshipers at the Pope’s inaugural mass on Sunday. After Pope Leo became the first American to …
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20-05-2025 PARIS: France will build a new high-security prison in its overseas department of French Guiana to house drug traffickers and radical Islamists, the country’s justice minister announced during a visit to the territory. Gerald Darmanin told Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper that the prison would target organised crime …
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19-05-2025 NEW YORK: Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted in February of attempted murder and assault after launching a knife attack on the prizewinning novelist at the Chautauqua Institution, a cultural retreat in western New York. The assault left Rushdie blind in one eye and with multiple serious injuries. Rushdie, now …
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19-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ PUNE: India’s Colorbar Cosmetics is planning to go public in early 2027, after doubling its revenue this financial year by upgrading its designs, launching new products and opening more stores, the makeup and skincare brand’s top boss told media. Brands catering to wealthier Indians have …
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19-05-2025 CANBERRA: Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost an appeal against a civil court ruling that implicated him in war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. Australia’s Federal Court dismissed the appeal lodged by Ben Roberts-Smith on Friday, in the latest setback for the 46-year-old’s fight to salvage a …
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19-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing at least 78 Palestinians in pre-dawn attacks, including 36 in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi. The intensified attacks come as Israel mobilizes for a new ground assault on Gaza and resumes ceasefire talks with Hamas in Qatar. Arab leaders in …
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19-05-2025 DAMASCUS/ ALEPPO: Syrian security forces have killed three ISIL (ISIS) fighters and arrested four others in Aleppo, authorities said, the first time the interim government has announced such an operation against the group in Syria’s second city. The raids, launched by the General Security Department in coordination with the …
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19-05-2025 BAGHDAD: Arab leaders have urged the international community to fund their plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip after United States President Donald Trump reiterated a proposal to take over the Palestinian territory. An Arab League summit held on Saturday in Baghdad said in its final statement that it urged …
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18-05-2025 ABUJA/ MAIDUGURI: Gunmen killed dozens people in four separate attacks in central Nigeria’s Benue state, a Red Cross official said Sunday, the latest flare-up of unrest in the region. The attacks happened Saturday night in four villages. Clashes between nomadic cattle herders and farmers over land use are common …
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18-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India is considering plans to dramatically increase the water it draws from a major river that feeds Pakistani farms downstream, as part of retaliatory action for a deadly April attack on tourists that New Delhi blames on Islamabad, according to four people familiar …
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