02-01-2025 GAZA: Days of heavy rains have flooded hundreds of makeshift shelters across Gaza, piling more misery on displaced Palestinians as Israel continues to restrict the entry of humanitarian aid amid its genocide. Forcibly displaced families across Gaza are struggling to keep their children warm and save what few belongings …
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02-01-2025 TEHRAN: The next round of nuclear talks between Iran and France, the United Kingdom and Germany will take place in Geneva in January, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reports, citing the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi. “The new round of talks between Iran and three European countries will …
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02-01-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ODISHA: Ajay Rout is an Indigenous farmer in a remote village in a southern district of India’s Odisha state. The village is surrounded by forest and hills, with the nearest market 10km (6.2 miles) away. The 34-year-old grows sweetcorn and vegetables on his …
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02-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces conduct raids in the occupied West Bank as the bombardment of Gaza continues on New Year’s Day, with at least 17 Palestinians killed in northern Jabalia and the central Bureij refugee camp. Days of heavy rain have flooded hundreds of makeshift shelters across the Strip, …
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02-01-2025 WASHINGTON: The FBI says it has discovered more than 150 bombs during a raid on a farm in Virginia thought to be the largest such cache seized by the law-enforcement agency in its history. Brad Spafford was arrested on 17 December in Isle of Wight County, 180 miles (290km) …
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02-01-2025 YAMOUSSOUKRO: Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military influence of the former colonial power in the region. In an end-of-year address, Ivory Coast’s President, Alassane Ouattara, said the move was a reflection of the modernization of the country’s …
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02-01-2025 NEW YORK: The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has sparked speculation after changing his name on his social media platform X to “Kekius Maximus”. The tech mogul and close confidant of US President-Elect Donald Trump offered no immediate explanation for the name or his new profile image which depicts …
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01-01-2025 WELLINGTON: New Year celebrations reach all of the Americas after Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa all mark the start of 2025. Parts of Alaska, all of Hawaii and island nations in the South Pacific will be the last to ring in the New Year. In the UK a dazzling …
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01-01-2025 BEIJING: Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to steal unclassified documents from United States Treasury workstations earlier this month, the US Treasury Department has said. The department said on Monday that the hackers were able to compromise a third-party cybersecurity service provider and gain access to the documents in what …
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01-01-2025 United States President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed the continued leadership of Mike Johnson in the House of Representatives, in an apparent attempt to limit Republican discord in the New Year. In a post to his online platform Truth Social on Monday, Trump appealed to his Make America Great Again …
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