22-10-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s space agency has carried out the first in a series of tests flights ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025. The Gaganyaan spacecraft was launched at 10:00 local time (04:30GMT) on Saturday from Sriharikota. This was the day’s second …
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22-10-2023 TBILISI, GEORGIA: A former lawyer to Donald Trump has pleaded guilty in an election subversion case in the US state of Georgia. Kenneth Chesebro is the third of 19 co-defendants to plead guilty in a deal with Fulton County prosecutors. He is accused of putting forward a slate of …
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22-10-2023 RAMALLAH/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: Israel has arrested so many Palestinians in the two weeks since the start of its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip that it has doubled the number of Palestinians in its custody. There were about 5,200 Palestinians in Israeli prisons prior to October 7 when …
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22-10-2023 CAIRO/ GAZA CITY: A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid started passing through the Rafah border crossing Saturday into the war-torn and besieged Gaza, a security source and an Egyptian Red Crescent official told media. Egyptian television showed several trucks entering the gate on the 15th day of the …
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22-10-2023 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: During the attack, Hamas militants killed more than 1,400 people, including civilians and soldiers, according to Israeli authorities. It was the most deadly attack by militants in Israel’s 75-year history and revealed a staggering intelligence failure by the country’s security forces. Israel has since responded …
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22-10-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: The United Nations has announced that the first aid delivery into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is expected to occur “in the next day or so.” Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian chief, stated that they are engaged in advanced negotiations with relevant …
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On Friday, the CPJ announced an ongoing investigation into reports of journalists affected—whether killed, injured, detained, or missing—in the escalating conflict, including incidents in neighboring Lebanon.” New York’ Oct 21: The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based nonprofit, has said that at least 22 journalists have been killed since the Hamas launched its …
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21-10-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BIHAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India has taken action after a disturbing video of some policemen throwing the remains of a dead man from a bridge into a canal went viral on social media. The man reportedly was a victim of a …
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21-10-2023 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: US President Joe Biden began a new mission on Thursday urging Americans that billions more should be spent on aiding Israel and Ukraine in their battles since only US intervention can avert world catastrophe. “American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances are what keep …
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21-10-2023 LONDON: Over a decade after her “Islamophobia has passed the dinner table test” speech in government, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a former UK minister, has made a keynote intervention “Muslims Don’t Matter; the silencing, stereotyping and stigmatizing of Muslims by the British press and political parties”. In her speech delivered …
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