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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07-04-2023 LOS ANGELES: US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, becoming the most senior US figure to meet a Taiwanese leader on US soil since 1979 despite threats of retaliation from China, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own. McCarthy, a Republican who …
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07-04-2023 TEHRAN/ RIYADH/ BEIJING: The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing for the first formal meeting of their most senior diplomats in more than seven years, CCTV news reported on Thursday, after a China-brokered deal to restore ties between the regional rivals. After years of hostility …
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07-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump after pleading not guilty to 34 criminal charges before the Manhattan court in New York called on Wednesday his party members in Congress to cut funding for the Department of Justice and FBI, Reuters reported on Thursday. The former president who is also a …
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07-04-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Amid Israeli attacks on Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa mosque, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for people of faith worldwide to “join their voices in a common prayer for peace”, as the holy observances of Ramadan, Easter and Passover coincide this week. The UN chief, during an interview …
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06-04-2023 LONDON: One of the world’s biggest criminal marketplaces used by online fraudsters to buy passwords has been closed down in a global law enforcement crackdown. Genesis Market sold login details, IP addresses and other data that made up victims’ “digital fingerprints”. Often costing less than $1, the personal information …
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06-04-2023 UNITED NATIONS: A Taliban order has barred Afghan women from working for the United Nations, the organization has said. The UN said the Taliban had informed them verbally but there had not yet been written communication of the move. The UN has told its Afghan staff, men and women, …
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06-04-2023 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: A man has been jailed for 13 years and six months for abducting a four-year-old girl from a remote Western Australia (WA) campsite. Terence Kelly, 37, pleaded guilty last year to taking Cleo Smith from her family’s tent in October 2021. After a huge police search, …
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