20-10-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s opposition Congress party on Wednesday declared veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge its new chief, the first person from outside the influential Nehru-Gandhi family to hold the beleaguered party’s presidency in 24 years. The Congress, which held an election for the post on Monday, hopes to …
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20-10-2022 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR/ SYDNEY: A Senior Pakistani Minister belongs with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province Atif Khan has received a letter demanding Rs8 million in extortion from the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Sources within TTP have confirmed the issuance of the letter by their Mardan chapter. Atif also …
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20-10-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: Australia says it will continue to provide military training, conduct joint exercises and export weapons to Indonesia despite increased violence and allegations of human rights abuses in West Papua, in the far east of the archipelago, where conflict has been rumbling for decades. The Australian Department …
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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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