02-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A landmark legal battle over privacy, data control and the business model of big tech is playing out in India as WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy faces close scrutiny from the country’s top court. At stake is not just WhatsApp’s policy but broader questions over privacy …
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02-03-2026 MOSCOW/ PARIS: Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran on Saturday, plunging the Middle East into a renewed military confrontation as President Donald Trump vowed to destroy Tehran’s missile arsenal and prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. Below is international reaction to the attacks Dmitry Medvedev, …
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02-03-2026 DUBAI: Global airlines suspended flights across the Middle East on Saturday after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, plunging the region into a renewed military confrontation. Flight maps showed the airspace over Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Israel and Bahrain virtually empty as Israel said it struck Iran …
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02-03-2026 BEIRUT: Israeli air strikes have targeted Blat and Wadi Barghouti in several strikes in southern Lebanon’s Iqlim al-Tuffah region, in the latest violation of a ceasefire reached in November 2024 between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, according to several correspondents on the ground. The Israeli military said …
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02-03-2026 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: International calls for mediation are growing as Pakistan and Afghanistan engage in cross-border fighting for a third day, in the most serious flare-up in violence between the neighbors in months that Pakistan says has brought them into “open war”. The European Union’s …
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Tehran, March 1: The conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran intensified sharply on its second day, with Iranian media reporting the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint US–Israeli airstrikes, even as the death toll in the bombing of a school in Minab rose to 165. Iran’s …
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Tehran confirms Khamenei’s martyrdom 01-03-2026 TEHRAN: Iranian state media confirms the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the US and Israel’s ongoing attacks on the country. Iranian state media say Khamenei’s daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed. US President Donald Trump, who announced “major combat operations” in …
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01-03-2026 GENEVA: US and Iranian officials have made “significant progress” in high-stakes nuclear talks in Geneva, the Omani foreign minister has said but the chances of a deal that could avert a war remain unclear. Badr Albusaidi, who acted as mediator, said the two sides planned to resume negotiations “soon” …
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01-03-2026 DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court has ordered the issuance of an Interpol red notice for the arrest of Tulip Siddiq, a British lawmaker, over corruption charges. Muhammad Sabbir Foyez, a senior judge in Dhaka, issued the order on Thursday following an application from the country’s anti-corruption commission, local media reported. …
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01-03-2026 TIRANA: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama late on Thursday dismissed his deputy, Belinda Balluku, who faces accusations of manipulating public tenders, allegations that have sparked opposition protests. A special prosecution office targeting corruption and organized crime, known as SPAK, indicted Balluku in December on suspicion of interfering in the …
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