11-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has appointed career civil servant Sanjay Malhotra as its new central bank governor in a surprise move that leaves markets guessing about the future direction of monetary policy. Financial markets had expected the Reserve Bank of India’s current Governor Shaktikanta Das to be handed …
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11-12-2024 LONDON/ LEADING: Europe’s Climate Monitor (ECM) says 2024 is “effectively certain” to be the hottest on record and the first year above the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) climate benchmark, a critical threshold to protect the Earth from dangerously overheating. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Monday an unprecedented …
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11-12-2024 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world’s fastest super computers ten septillion or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to complete. The chip is the latest development in a field known as quantum computing which …
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11-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Syrian media reports say Israeli warplanes have carried out dozens of attacks across the country, including in the capital, Damascus. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said there were more than 100 strikes on military targets. A research centre with suspected links to chemical weapon production …
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11-12-2024 LONDON: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says no decision has been made yet on whether the UK government could remove Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from a list of banned terrorist groups after the rebels led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. HTS was proscribed as a terror organization …
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10-12-2024 WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump has signaled that, under his administration, the United States would cease any involvement in Syria’s long-running civil war, hinting at a possible end to support for Kurdish-led forces in the region. In a Saturday morning missive on social media, Trump addressed the surprise opposition offensive …
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10-12-2024 SEOUL: South Korea’s leadership crisis deepened on Sunday as prosecutors named President Yoon Suk Yeol as a subject of a criminal investigation over last week’s martial law attempt, a media report said, and his former defence minister was arrested. Yoon survived an impeachment vote in the opposition-led parliament late …
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10-12-2024 NEW DELHI/ KADAMTALA: The last thing that Shahin Ahmed, 38, remembers of his brother, Alfeshani Ahmed, was a frantic call with him amid gunshots and screams. At about 9pm on October 6, Alfeshani, a 36-year-old owner of a smartphone and electronic accessories shop, had just hastily shut his shop …
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10-12-2024 MOSCOW: Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum “out of humanitarian considerations”, Russian news agencies are quoting a Kremlin source as saying. Russian state TV also reported the news, which put an end to speculation about the whereabouts of Syria’s former president after …
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10-12-2024 ACCRA: Ghana’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday’s election and congratulated the opposition candidate, former President John Mahama, on his victory. “The people have voted for change,” said Bawumia. The elections come amid the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation, which saw the cost of basic …
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