07-11-2025 LONDON: French politicians are escalating their fight with Chinese online fast-fashion retailer Shein, threatening a ban over childlike sex dolls on its site, just as the company plans to open its first-ever permanent shop in Paris. After France’s consumer watchdog found sex dolls resembling children for sale on Shein’s …
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07-11-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks often with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and trade teams from both countries continue to hold talks, the White House said on Tuesday. “The president and his trade team continue to be in very serious discussions with India,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt …
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07-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Aid agencies are in “a race against time” to get food and other humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, a United Nations official has warned, as Israeli restrictions continue to impede deliveries across the bombarded enclave. Speaking during a news briefing on Tuesday, a senior spokesperson for …
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07-11-2025 LISBON: Four people have been detained after Portuguese authorities intercepted a narco-sub carrying more than 1.7 tons of cocaine in the mid-Atlantic. The semi-submersible vessel was bound for the Iberian Peninsula and was seized in recent days, according to officials. Footage shows the police and navy surrounding the vessel …
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07-11-2025 MELBOURNE: Popular forum site Reddit has been added to Australia’s world-first social media ban for children under 16 that starts next month. Live-streaming platform Kick will also be included, bringing the number of sites targeted in the ban to nine. They include Facebook, X, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and …
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07-11-2025 MANILA: At least 40 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes as one of strongest typhoons this year ripped through the central Philippines, officials say. Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded large areas, including entire towns on the most populated central island of Cebu, where …
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07-11-2025 KHARTOUM: Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan’s military for control of the country, …
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06-11-2025 OSLO: Norway’s parliament on Tuesday voted in favor of pausing ethical divestments by its $2.1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, while it updates the fund’s ethical guidelines. The move, proposed by the minority Labor government early on Tuesday, came at a time of intense international scrutiny on …
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06-11-2025 KABUL/ TANGI TASHKURGAN: Residents of northern Afghanistan were sifting through rubble and treating their injured on Tuesday after a powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake left at least 27 dead and destroyed hundreds of houses. The quake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif early on Monday, injuring almost 1,000 …
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06-11-2025 BERLIN: Syrians no longer have grounds for asylum in Germany now the civil war in their country is over, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, as his conservatives seek to fend off a surging far-right ahead of a slew of state elections next year. Germany was the EU country that …
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