03-05-2025 NEW YORK: Tariffs on goods coming into the US will add nearly a billion dollars to Apple’s costs, the tech giant said, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to spare key electronics from the new import taxes. The estimate from the iPhone maker comes as firms are scrambling to respond …
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03-05-2025 DAMASCUS: Deadly clashes between Islamist armed factions, security forces and fighters from the Druze religious minority near Damascus are another sign of the continuing fragility of the security situation in Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. Outside players have once again been involved, with Israel saying it carried …
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02-05-2025 HOUSTON: Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week; SOS. With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday. Ten days earlier, dozens of …
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02-05-2025 SANA’S/ LONDON: British fighter jets joined their US counterparts in airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels overnight, the first military action authorized by the Labour government and the first UK participation in an aggressive American bombing campaign against the group. RAF Typhoons, refuelled by Voyager air tankers, targeted a cluster …
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02-05-2025 DAMASCUS: At least 16 civilians and security officials have been killed in clashes in a town near Damascus, Syria’s interior ministry reported, the second consecutive day of fighting in Druze-majority areas around Syria’s capital. Reports on Wednesday said fighting had started overnight in the town of Ashrafiah Sahnaya, south-west …
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02-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the “new normal”. Temperatures in the region typically climb …
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02-05-2025 MELBOURNE: A fatal family lunch in regional Victoria is at the centre of a high-profile murder trial that is under way in the state’s Supreme Court. Erin Patterson is accused of murdering her estranged husband Simon Patterson’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister and Simon’s aunt, Heather …
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02-05-2025 JERUSALEM: The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned that rapidly spreading wildfires near Jerusalem could reach the city, as he declared the situation a “national emergency”. Thick smoke billowed above highways near Jerusalem on Wednesday as firefighters rushed to control wildfires that have injured several people and prompted …
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02-05-2025 WASHINGTON/ KYIV: Ukraine and the US on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by US President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine’s reconstruction. The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes …
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01-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India shut its airspace to Pakistani airlines on Wednesday, the government said, days after its nuclear-armed neighbor banned Indian airlines from flying over its territory following the killing of 26 men in an attack on tourists in Kashmir. The ban will last from April 30 …
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