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Lightning, heavy rains hurt hundreds in India

24-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Hazardous weather has killed at least 36 people in northern India over the past 24 hours, including 12 who died after being struck by lightning. Across the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 24 people died after their homes collapsed during unrelenting rains, Relief …

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UK announces most significant tax cuts since 1972

24-09-2022 LONDON: The British government has unveiled a new mini-budget in the parliament, intending to cut household taxes and energy bills while driving economic growth. In what represents the most significant tax cut budget since 1972, the new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng’s sweeping new budget will see cuts to national …

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70 dead after boat carrying migrants sinks off Syria

24-09-2022 DAMASCUS/ TRIPOLI: Dozens of people have died after a boat carrying migrants and refugees from Lebanon capsized off Syria’s coast, according to the Syrian and Lebanese governments. On Friday, the Lebanese transport minister said that 71 people had died in Thursday’s disaster. The Syrian government had previously said that …

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Russia defends Ukraine war as US condemns alleged abuses

23-09-2022 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: World leaders at the United Nations have called for Moscow to be held accountable for human rights violations in Ukraine as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov defended his country’s actions in the seven-month war. Addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council on alleged atrocities committed in …

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‘Israel to sell air defence system to UAE’

23-09-2022 Israel has agreed to sell an advanced air defence system to the United Arab Emirates, two sources familiar with the matter said, in the first such known deal between them since they forged ties in 2020. The deal reinforces how, for some Arab states, resolving the decades-long Israel-Palestinian conflict …

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