20-05-2025 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russia’s prosecutor general said on Monday it had banned human rights group Amnesty International Limited as an “undesirable organization”, accusing it of backing Ukraine against Russia. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in London, Amnesty International campaigns for human rights across the world, including on behalf of those …
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20-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ KHAN YOUNIS: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has issued a major evacuation warning for southern Gaza, telling tens of thousands of residents in the area around the city of Khan Younis to leave. The IDF says it is preparing to launch an “unprecedented attack” against Hamas in the …
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20-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Small Indian grocery shops and major online fashion retailers are boycotting Turkish products ranging from chocolates, coffee, jams and cosmetics to clothing amid growing anger at Turkey’s support for Pakistan in a confrontation with India. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan expressed public solidarity with Pakistan, …
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20-05-2025 WASHINGTON: Former US President Joe Biden, 82, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, a statement from his office said on Sunday. The discovery was made on Friday after he reported urinary symptoms which led doctors to find a small nodule on his prostate. …
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20-05-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the United Kingdom’s charge d’affaires over what it called “suspicious and unwarranted” arrests of several Iranian nationals. The UK earlier this month accused several Iranian nationals of offences without offering evidence, wilfully refrained from informing Iran’s embassy in time, and prevented …
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20-05-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV has held “cordial” talks with US Vice-President JD Vance, according to the Vatican. It comes a day after Vance, a practicing Catholic joined other dignitaries and thousands of worshipers at the Pope’s inaugural mass on Sunday. After Pope Leo became the first American to …
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20-05-2025 PARIS: France will build a new high-security prison in its overseas department of French Guiana to house drug traffickers and radical Islamists, the country’s justice minister announced during a visit to the territory. Gerald Darmanin told Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper that the prison would target organised crime …
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19-05-2025 NEW YORK: Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted in February of attempted murder and assault after launching a knife attack on the prizewinning novelist at the Chautauqua Institution, a cultural retreat in western New York. The assault left Rushdie blind in one eye and with multiple serious injuries. Rushdie, now …
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19-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ PUNE: India’s Colorbar Cosmetics is planning to go public in early 2027, after doubling its revenue this financial year by upgrading its designs, launching new products and opening more stores, the makeup and skincare brand’s top boss told media. Brands catering to wealthier Indians have …
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19-05-2025 CANBERRA: Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lost an appeal against a civil court ruling that implicated him in war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. Australia’s Federal Court dismissed the appeal lodged by Ben Roberts-Smith on Friday, in the latest setback for the 46-year-old’s fight to salvage a …
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