30-01-2023 NEW DELHI: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani saw more than $20bn (£16bn) wiped off his fortune on Friday, after investors fled his companies for a second day prompted by fraud claims made by a US investment firm. The Adani Group has dismissed the report as malicious, but the response has …
Read More »North Korea denies arming Russia’s Wagner group
30-01-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korea has denied providing arms to Russia after the United States accused Pyongyang of supplying rockets and missiles to the Russian Wagner Group and helping bolster Moscow’s forces in Ukraine. A senior North Korean official, in a statement on Sunday, slammed the US allegations as a “groundless …
Read More »Memphis disbands police unit linked to Tyre Nichols’s beating
30-01-2023 MEMPHIS: The city of Memphis in the United States has disbanded a police unit that included five officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist. Cerelyn ‘CJ’ Davis, the Memphis police chief, announced the move on Saturday, citing a “cloud of dishonor”. Davis said in …
Read More »Netanyahu plans to arm Israelis after Jerusalem attack
30-01-2023 JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to make it easier for Israelis to get firearms amid escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, a move seen as “collective punishment” and one that could further increase the violence. Netanyahu announced the measure late on Saturday after convening a …
Read More »BJP-Khalistan supporters clash in Melbourne
29-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Except neither all Australian intelligence & secret services, Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) even police were unaware about one of the world’s biggest Khalistan movements nor none of one official was present at Melbourne’s voting place until conflict between political activists …
Read More »India ‘expects’ more clashes with Chinese troops in Himalayas
29-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up military infrastructure in the region. At least 24 soldiers were killed …
Read More »New Zealand starts clean-up after deadly flash floods
29-01-2023 WELLINGTON: Authorities in New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, began mopping up on Saturday after torrential rains brought flash flooding and evacuations, with at least two people confirmed dead and two missing in the widespread inundation. A state of emergency remained in place in the city of 1.6 million people …
Read More »US General warns of war with China in 2025
29-01-2023 WASHINGTON: A four-star US Air Force general said in a memo that his gut told him the United States would fight China in the next two years, comments that Pentagon officials said were not consistent with American military assessments. “I hope I am wrong,” General Mike Minihan, who heads …
Read More »‘Iran thwarts drone attack on military site’
29-01-2023 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: A loud explosion at a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan was caused by an “unsuccessful” drone attack, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, citing the defence ministry. “One of (the drones) was hit by the … air defence and the other two were caught …
Read More »Syria ‘totally rejects’ watchdog report on 2018 chemical attack
29-01-2023 DAMASCUS/ TAMPA, FLORIDA: Syria has rejected a report by the global chemical weapons watchdog that blamed Damascus for a 2018 poison gas attack which killed 43 people, calling it “false”. Syria’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) …
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