08-04-2023 NASHVILLE: In an emotionally charged session shown on media, Republicans voted to expel two African American Democrat legislators from the House of Representatives in Tennessee, weeks after they protested gun reform laws, media reported Friday. The Republican-dominated house, however, could not throw out the third representative as in the …
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08-04-2023 BEEIRUT/ GAZA: Israel has fired what it says “retaliatory airstrikes” on early Friday hitting the targets of Hamas in southern Lebanon, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement, media reported today. Lebanese news agency Al-Manar reported that “Israeli airstrikes hit an open area in Tyre region after which …
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08-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Just a day after the expulsion of the two Democrats from Republican-dominated Tennessee’s House of Representatives, US President Joe Biden criticized the move and termed the expulsion ‘undemocratic’. Taking to Twitter, Joe Biden wrote that “Three kids and three officials gunned down in yet another mass shooting. And …
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07-04-2023 PARIS: Clashes erupted in Paris next to a Left Bank brasserie favored by French President Emmanuel Macron as protesters torched garbage cans and smashed two banks during the eleventh day of nationwide demonstrations against pension reform. The bistro La Rotonde, whose awning was set alight as protesters threw bottles …
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07-04-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has surprised markets by holding its key repo rate steady after six consecutive hikes, saying it was closely monitoring the effect of recent global financial turbulence. On Thursday, RBI said its policy stance remains focused on “withdrawal of accommodation”, …
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07-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Robert F Kennedy Jr has filed election paperwork to run for US president in 2024 as a Democrat. The 69-year-old is the son of assassinated Senator Robert F Kennedy and nephew of President John F Kennedy. The environmental lawyer’s campaign treasurer, John E Sullivan, confirmed the filing on …
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07-04-2023 JAKARTA: Indonesia police have arrested a village shaman accused of killing dozens of people after several bodies were found buried in the man’s garden. Slamet Tohari, 45, admitted to police that dozens of victims were interred on his land. He has been charged with the premediated murder of clients …
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07-04-2023 TAIPEI CITY: China’s second aircraft carrier, the Shandong, is engaged in an exercise in the western Pacific amid heightened tensions across the Taiwan Strait over a meeting between President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy. Taiwanese Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told reporters …
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07-04-2023 SAN FRANCISCO: Bob Lee, the founder of payment application Cash App and chief product officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has died after an apparent stabbing in San Francisco in the United States. Lee’s father and San Francisco police said the tech entrepreneur died early on Tuesday morning after being …
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07-04-2023 PRETORIA: South Africa’s government has revoked a national “state of disaster” declared in February to manage a crippling electricity crisis. On February 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa invoked disaster regulations to fight the crisis that included daily rolling power cuts by state utility Eskom due to frequent breakdowns at its …
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