07-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ SANA’A/ BEIRUT/ GAZA: Israel attacked Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, as well as Gaza, where air strikes killed at least 54 people on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Gaza’s more than 2 million people “will be moved” in a new ground offensive as Israel’s total blockade on …
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07-05-2025 MOSCOW: Russia says Ukraine has launched an overnight drone attack targeting Moscow for the second night in a row. All four of the capital’s major airports have been closed temporarily to ensure safety, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said on Telegram. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on social media at …
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07-05-2025 WASHINGTON: I ran from the White House briefing room, past the portico entrance of the West Wing to our camera position on the lawn and flung on an ear piece connecting me to the studio. A moment later the presenter asked me about the comments we had just heard …
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06-05-2025 LONDON: British counter-terrorism police have arrested eight men including seven Iranians in two separate operations, officers said, in what the interior minister called some of the biggest investigations of their kind in recent years. Five men, four of them Iranian nationals, were arrested on Saturday over a suspected plot …
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06-05-2025 KIGALI/ NAIROBI: Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on television late on Sunday. Rwanda has in recent years positioned itself as a destination country for migrants that Western countries would like to remove, …
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06-05-2025 VATICAN CITY: Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is sometimes called the “Asian Francis” because of his infectious smile, easy laugh, and spontaneity with words. Like the late Argentine pope, he hails from a country far from the Catholic Church’s traditional power base of Europe and came to Rome with …
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06-05-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: India has begun work to boost reservoir holding capacity at two hydroelectric projects in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, sources with knowledge of the matter told media, after fresh tension with Pakistan led it to suspend a water-sharing pact. The work represents …
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06-05-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the infamous former prison on an island near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. In a message on his Truth Social site on Sunday, President Trump said that “for too long America has been plagued by …
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06-05-2025 LIMA: Thirteen miners have been found dead inside a mine in Peru after being kidnapped several days earlier. They were working at a gold mine owned by Peruvian mining company Poderosa, which is based in Pataz province, north of the capital Lima. The victims had been sent out to …
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06-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israel’s security cabinet has approved a plan to expand its military offensive against Hamas which includes the “capture” of Gaza and the holding of its territory, according to an Israeli official. It is also said to include moving the 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza towards the …
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