22-05-2023 SAN SALVADOR: At least nine people have died after a stampede at a football stadium in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, officials have said. Police said seven men and two women were among the dead, with all the victims over the age of 18. The crush occurred during a …
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22-05-2023 KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated the Wagner paramilitary group, after it claimed to have captured the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin posing with some of his fighters made the claim in a video posted to social media on Saturday. Ukraine’s deputy defence minister rejected …
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22-05-2023 KHARTOUM: A temporary ceasefire in Sudan has been agreed as fighting between two warring factions entered its sixth week. Previous truce attempts between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have tended to collapse within minutes of beginning but the new deal will be enforced by …
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21-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India will do “whatever we can” to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged Saturday as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since Russia’s invasion. “I understand your pain and the pain of Ukrainian citizens very well,” Modi …
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21-05-2023 ATHENS: Greece said it has recovered hundreds of looted Neolithic to Byzantine artefacts including a second century bronze statue of Alexander the Great from a notorious British antiquities dealer after a 17-year legal battle. The fight to repatriate the trove of 351 objects began in 2006 with authorities investigating …
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21-05-2023 NAYPYIDAW: At least 145 people were killed when Cyclone Mocha hit the country this week, Myanmar’s ruling military has said. The impoverished western state of Rakhine bore the brunt of the storm that on Sunday tore down houses, communication towers and bridges with winds of up to 210 kilometres …
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21-05-2023 KHARTOUM: Artillery fire has pounded the outer areas of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as fighting that trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than one million people entered its sixth week. Air attacks were also reported on Saturday by witnesses in southern Omdurman and Khartoum North, the …
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21-05-2023 HIROSHIMA: The Group of Seven has pledged to work together to counter economic coercion amid a “disturbing rise” in countries weaponising trade. In a statement on economic security released on the second day of the G7 summit in Japan, the club of wealthy democracies said they would boost resilience …
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21-05-2023 GAGA REFUGEE CAMP, CHAD: At least 250,000 refugees have crossed into countries neighboring Sudan since April 15, after a rivalry between army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, turned into an armed conflict. Another 843,000 people are displaced …
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21-05-2023 MINNESOTA: Minnesota has seen the sixth attack on a mosque in 2023, this time a major fire, putting the state on track for a record year for mosque attacks. This latest incident occurred at the Oromo American Twhid Islamic Center in Saint Paul, which caught fire on Wednesday morning. …
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