02-12-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Adani Group founder Gautam Adani responded for the first time on Saturday to allegations by US authorities that he was part of a $265 million bribery scheme, saying that his ports-to-power conglomerate was committed to world class regulatory compliance. The indictment is the …
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02-12-2024 BEIRUT: Thousands of people have descended on the site where former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli air strike, after the group allowed access to the area for the first time for a public memorial. The massive crater left by the Beirut strike was lit up …
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02-12-2024 BRUSSELS: “I had to work while I was nine months pregnant,” says Sophie, a sex worker in Belgium. “I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth.” She juggles her job with being a mother of five which is “really hard”. When Sophie had her fifth child …
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02-12-2024 GAZA STRIP: The charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) has said it is pausing its operations in Gaza after a vehicle carrying its staff members was hit by an Israeli air strike. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the target of the strike had taken part in the 7 October …
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02-12-2024 WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a former aide, Kash Patel, to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency Patel has often criticized. A former US defence department chief of staff in the first Trump administration, Patel has been a steadfast supporter of the incoming Republican president. …
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02-12-2024 TBILISI: Georgia’s pro-Western president has said she will stay in post until new parliamentary elections are held, as protests continue over the government’s decision to put EU accession negotiations on hold. Speaking to media, Salome Zourabichvili, who has sided with the opposition, described the current parliament as “illegitimate” after …
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01-12-2024 GENEVA: Large groups of women and children are scavenging for food among mounds of trash in parts of the Gaza Strip, a UN official said on Friday following a visit to the Palestinian enclave. Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights office for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, expressed …
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01-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s economic growth slowed much more than expected in the third quarter, hampered by weaker expansions in manufacturing and consumption, likely adding pressure on the central bank for interest rate cuts. Gross domestic output, opens new tab in the world’s fifth-biggest economy rose by 5.4% …
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01-12-2024 N’DJAMENA: Chad has said it is ending its defence cooperation agreement with former colonial power France, a move that will require French soldiers to leave the Central African country. Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah called France “an essential partner” but said it “must now also consider that Chad has grown …
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01-12-2024 GAZA CITY: Almost 100 Palestinians have been reported killed in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza over the past 24 hours, including 75 killed in air strikes on two homes in the north’s Beit Lahiya. Hunger and suffering among Palestinians in Gaza have reached “catastrophic” levels, the besieged territory’s Government …
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