14-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts National Guard, has been jailed for 15 years for leaking classified documents about the war in Ukraine and other military secrets. A federal judge in Boston, United States, on Tuesday sentenced the 22-year-old after he pleaded guilty earlier this year to …
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14-11-2024 OTTAWA: Canada’s labour minister is intervening to end the lockouts of workers at the country’s two biggest ports. Minister of Labour Steven Mackinnon said on Tuesday that the negotiations had reached an impasse and he was directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the resumption of all operations …
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14-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ GAZA/ JERUSALEM: The UN’s Security Council is meeting to discuss humanitarian conditions in Gaza amid warnings of famine in the north and relentless Israeli attacks that killed at least 63 people in 24 hours. The United States finds that Israel is not impeding aid to Gaza and says …
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13-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: Earlier, the BBC had been unable to independently verify reports that Donald Trump had spoken with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin last week. Now, after Trump’s team refused to comment on the alleged conversation, the Kremlin has flatly denied that any dialogue has taken place between Putin and …
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13-11-2024 LONDON: A British soldier accused of passing sensitive information to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pleaded guilty on Monday to escaping from prison while awaiting trial. Daniel Abed Khalife is on trial at London’s Woolwich Crown Court, accused of collecting sensitive information between May 2019 and January 2022. Khalife, …
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13-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces sent tanks into the western side of Gaza’s Nuseirat camp on Monday in a new incursion into the enclave’s central area, and Palestinian medics said Israeli military strikes had killed at least 11 people since Sunday night. Residents said Israeli tanks opened fire as they …
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13-11-2024 ACCRA: Ghana’s main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama looks set to win December’s presidential election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, placing him ahead of his main challenger, ruling party candidate Muhamudu Bawumia. Former president Mahama, 65, and current Vice President Bawumia, 60, are the two main contenders for …
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13-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: A court in the eastern state of West Bengal began the trial on Monday of a police volunteer accused of raping and murdering a doctor at a government hospital in August, a case that has sparked outrage over the lack of safety …
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13-11-2024 TAIPEI: There is no new “stage of talks” with the United States at the moment for arms sales, Taiwan’s government said on Monday, as the island considers how best to respond to US President-elect Donald Trump’s previous demands that Taipei pay for protection. Trump, who won a second term …
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13-11-2024 WEST PALM BEACH/ WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and advised him not to escalate the Ukraine war, a source familiar with the conversation said, but the Kremlin denied the two had spoken. The source told Reuters on Sunday that Trump, who has criticized …
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