09-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Aircraft movement at Delhi airport was hampered on Friday because its Air Traffic Control system suffered a technical problem, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said after several flights were disrupted at one of the world’s busiest airports. Top airlines IndiGo, Air India and Spicejet …
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09-11-2025 KAMPALA: Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have confirmed war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, nearly two decades after the court first issued a warrant for his arrest. Kony, who remains at large, faces 39 charges, including murder, sexual enslavement and …
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08-11-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: United States President Donald Trump has suggested that he is open to assisting New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, but warned that the trailblazing democratic socialist will need to be “respectful” of Washington to succeed. Trump made the comments on Wednesday as Mamdani announced his transition team …
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08-11-2025 KABUL: Afghanistan’s once-booming opium industry has shrunk dramatically with cultivation falling by 20 percent in 2025, according to a United Nations report warning of a sharp rise in synthetic drug production. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Thursday that the area devoted to the cultivation …
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08-11-2025 WASHINGTON: As Californians voted on Tuesday for a new congressional map, United States President Donald Trump falsely said the process was rigged. “The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Trump wrote on his Truth …
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08-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BIHAR: Millions of voters in India’s third most populous state, Bihar, are voting on Thursday in the first phase of elections that could not only shape the state’s future but also serve as a bellwether for the broader mood of the nation, 17 months after …
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08-11-2025 KHARTOUM: Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris has called for the international community to designate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a “terrorist” organization and warned that violence could spill over to the wider region as evidence of atrocities committed by the paramilitary group in the western region of Darfur …
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08-11-2025 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s Afar region has accused forces from neighboring Tigray of crossing into its territory, seizing several villages and attacking civilians, in what it called a breach of the 2022 peace deal that ended the war in northern Ethiopia. Between 2020 and 2022, Tigray was the center of …
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08-11-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA STRIP: Only about 100 aid trucks are entering the war-ravaged Gaza Strip daily, a figure “wholly insufficient” for the desperate population with NGOs effectively “blocked” by Israel from distribution efforts, an aid group says. Media has viewed a copy of the UN Security Council draft resolution …
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Sharjah, Nov 7(Spl Crosspondent-S M A Jaffri) The 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) began with grandeur on Wednesday, inaugurated by His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah. This year’s edition has drawn participation from 118 countries, highlighting its position as one of the world’s …
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