26-11-2025 Machu Picchu, the remains of a 15th Century Inca city, is Peru’s most popular tourist destination and a Unesco world heritage site. Yet a continuing dispute over the buses that take visitors up to the mountain-top site recently saw some 1,400 stranded tourists needing to be evacuated. Cristian Alberto …
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26-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has agreed to drop criminal charges against billionaire brothers Nitin and Chetan Sandesara if they pay a third of their dues in a $1.6-billion bank fraud, a step that could prompt other offenders to seek similar settlements. After being accused of defaulting …
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26-11-2025 HANOI/ BANGKOK: Heavy rains continue to cause widespread flooding and landslides across Southeast Asia and have claimed several more lives as authorities mobilize to try to help. One person was confirmed to have been killed in Vietnam on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 91 people …
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26-11-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA STRIP: A senior delegation from Hamas has met Egypt’s intelligence chief in Cairo to discuss Israel’s breaches of the ceasefire agreement, the group said, as Palestinians in Gaza held funerals for dozens of people killed in recent Israeli attacks. In a statement on Sunday, the group said …
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25-11-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: At least nine children and a woman have been killed after Pakistani forces bombed a house in the country’s southeastern Khost province, according to Afghan authorities. Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban administration, said on Tuesday that the attack took …
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25-11-2025 BEIJING: China on Friday took its feud with Tokyo over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Taikachi’s recent comments on Taiwan to the United Nations, as tensions between the East Asian neighbors deepened and ties plunged to their lowest since 2023. “If Japan dares to attempt an armed intervention in the …
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25-11-2025 BRASILIA: Following bitter rows, the UN climate summit COP30 in Belem, Brazil has ended with a deal that contains no direct reference to the fossil fuels that are heating up the planet. It is a frustrating end for more than 80 countries including the UK and EU that wanted …
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25-11-2025 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: When the United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a United States-authored resolution that paves the way for a transitional administration and an International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza, Pakistan which was presiding over the council had a seemingly contradictory response. Asim Iftikhar Ahmed, Pakistan’s …
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25-11-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, four US officials told media, as the Trump administration escalates pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Media was not able to establish the exact timing or scope of the new operations, …
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25-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Ten large Indian trade unions condemned the government’s rollout on Friday of new labour codes, the biggest such overhaul in decades, as a “deceptive fraud” against workers. The unions, aligned with parties opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanded in a statement late on Friday …
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