20-08-2025 NASSAU: HISPANIOLA: Hurricane Erin has strengthened to a Category 4 storm as it threatens to bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to the eastern coast of the United States. The rains caused by the storm are already beginning to hit the south-eastern Bahamas and the Turk and Caicos Islands, …
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20-08-2025 WEST BANK/ GAZA CITY: From among the broken remains of Brahim Hamaiel’s olive trees, in the occupied West Bank, we saw the masked men approach. A dozen settlers, charging down from the illegal outpost above his farm and across the field towards us, moving fast and carrying large sticks. …
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19-08-2025 BAGHDAD/ MOSUL: Iraqi officials have begun the excavation of what is believed to be a mass grave left behind by Islamic State/ ISIL (ISIS) during its years of carnage exacted upon the civilian population after it seized large swaths of the nation from 2014 onwards, until being vanquished three …
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19-08-2025 By SJA Jafri PESHAWAR/ BAYSHONAI KALAY: Aziz Ahmed, a local schoolteacher in Buner, northwestern Pakistan said the thunder accompanying recent torrential rains was so loud he thought the “end of the world had come”. Water, rocks and trees were swept down the mountainside after two days of intense monsoon …
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19-08-2025 KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti authorities have arrested 67 people accused of producing and distributing locally made alcoholic drinks that killed 23 people in recent days, including a Bangladeshi national said to head the criminal network, the Interior Ministry has said. In a statement on social media late on Saturday, the …
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19-08-2025 TEL AVIV/ JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis took part in a nationwide strike on Sunday in support of families of hostages held in Gaza, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement with Hamas to end the war and release the remaining captives. Demonstrators waved Israeli flags and …
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19-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s deepest tax cuts in eight years will strain government revenues but are winning praise from businesses and political pundits who say they will bolster his image in an ongoing trade fight with Washington. In the biggest tax overhaul since 2017, …
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19-08-2025 GAZA CITY/ CAIRO: Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday that Israel’s plan to relocate residents from Gaza City constitutes a “new wave of genocide and displacement” for hundreds of thousands of residents in the area. The group said the planned deployment of tents and other shelter equipment by …
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19-08-2025 OTTAWA/ MONTREAL: Air Canada, opens new tab flight attendants said on Sunday they will remain on strike and spurn a government return-to-work order they called unconstitutional that would send them back to their duties by 2 pm. The Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a statement that members …
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18-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces bomb al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing seven people, as the military advances plans to take over the northern city and forcibly displace more than a million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south. The Palestinian Health Ministry says 11 more people have died of …
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