19-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KUALA LUMPUR: Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad is believed to be behind the abduction of a Palestinian man who was snatched from a street in the capital Kuala Lumpur and interrogated before being freed by police, a Malaysian news organization has reported. Malaysia’s New Straits …
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19-10-2022 PARIS: French trade unions began a nationwide strike on Tuesday, asking for higher salaries amid decades-high inflation and posing President Emmanuel Macron one of his stiffest challenges since his reelection in May. The strike, which will primarily affect public sectors such as schools and transportation, is an extension of …
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19-10-2022 MOSCOW: Sensing that Russia has been weakened by its war in Ukraine, some of its closest allies in Central Asia are displaying a newly assertive streak. The region’s five former Soviet republics are increasingly standing up to Moscow, aware of their new-found leverage as Russia looks to their markets …
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19-10-2022 WASHINGTON: The United States agrees with British and French assessments that Iran supplying drones to Russia would violate a UN Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six powers, US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said on Monday. “Earlier today our French and British …
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19-10-2022 LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss apologized for “mistakes” in her program that caused investor confidence to evaporate and her poll ratings to plunge before nearly all of it was finally shredded on Monday, but said she would not step down. “I do want to accept responsibility and say …
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18-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: The Australian government has reportedly dropped its stance recognizing West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a policy by former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, UK-based news outlet The Guardian reported on Monday. The language was adopted during the previous Conservative government in …
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18-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BERLIN/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The German Foreign and Interior Ministries launched a new program on Monday to take in Afghan citizens who are most at risk of persecution under the Taliban. Following Germany’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in August last year, tens of thousands of Afghans who …
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18-10-2022 LAGOS: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered 12,000 metric tonnes of food items from Nigeria’s strategic reserve for communities affected by catastrophic flooding last week. Some 603 people have died from one of the worst floods to have affected the country in recent history, Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister …
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18-10-2022 TEHRAN: The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps warned Saudi Arabia about the price the kingdom will have to pay for sponsoring anti-Iranian media outlets. In comments on the sidelines of a military exercise in northwest of Iran on Monday, Major General Hossein Salami took a swipe at …
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18-10-2022 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH: United States President Joe Biden has “no plans” to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at next month’s G20 summit in Indonesia, a senior US official says, as tensions over the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production continue to reverberate. Biden will act “methodically” in …
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