06-09-2022 Bureau Report CANBERRA: The Solomon Islands has rejected an offer by Australia to finance the country’s upcoming election, saying the timing of the public release of the overture was “inappropriate” and accused Canberra of meddling in domestic affairs. The Pacific island’s government said in a statement on Tuesday that …
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06-09-2022 BEIJING/ MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended large-scale military exercises involving Chinese forces and the militaries of several other Russia-friendly countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told local news agencies. The Vostok-2022 (East 2022) joint military exercises began on September 1 and are being held amid Russia’s war in …
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06-09-2022 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left his Downing Street office for the last time before heading to Scotland to formally offer his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. The British leader, who announced his intention to step down two months ago, is expected to meet with …
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05-09-2022 OTTAWA: Police in Canada are hunting for two men identified as suspects in a stabbing spree in the central province of Saskatchwan that left at least 10 people dead. Another 15 people were wounded in the attacks on Sunday in the remote Indigenous community of James Smith Cree Nation …
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05-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies BEIJING/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 in southwestern Sichuan province in China has killed seven people, state television CCTV reported on Monday. The quake was recorded as the strongest to hit the province since 2013, with the shaking, felt in the provincial capital …
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05-09-2022 BRUSSELS: The euro has sunk below $0.99, a new 20-year low after Russia’s halt to gas supplies down its main pipeline to Europe heightened fears about a deepening energy crisis across the region. The euro has been increasingly correlated with natural gas prices in recent months, with the former …
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05-09-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Two Russian Embassy staff in Kabul were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the embassy, in a blast that injured 11 others, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Police said two people had died in …
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05-09-2022 LONDON: Liz Truss was named as Britain’s next Prime Minister on Monday, winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unrest and a recession. After weeks of an often bad-tempered and divisive leadership contest that …
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04-09-2022 TRIPOLI: Fighting has broken out between Libyan armed factions on the western outskirts of Tripoli, as forces aligned with the Government of National Unity (GNU) under Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba further consolidated their control over the capital. Clashes on Friday and early Saturday took place in Warshafala, a district west …
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04-09-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies MOGADISHU/ HOUSTON/ MELBOURNE: Al-Shabab (a co-partner terror group of Daesh/ ISIS/ ISIL/ al-Qaeda/ “Taliban”) fighters have martyred at least 39 Shia Muslims (innocent civilians) and destroyed trucks laden with food aid in an overnight attack in Somalia’s central region. The armed group launched the attack …
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