05-08-2024 ABUJA: Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu called on Sunday for a suspension of protests against a cost of living crisis, saying this would create an opportunity for dialogue, his first public comments since frustrated citizens took to the streets last week. Amnesty International has said at least 13 people were …
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05-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India, which bans direct advertising of liquor, is set to announce sweeping rules that will bar even surrogate ads and sponsoring of events, which could force firms such as Carlsberg, Pernod Ricard and Diageo to redraw marketing campaigns. Such “surrogate ads” often get …
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05-08-2024 CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has addressed a mass rally in the capital Caracas, defying government calls for her arrest. Machado went into hiding earlier this week after accusing President Nicolas Maduro of defrauding the opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, of a clear victory in the presidential election. …
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05-08-2024 KYIV: Ukraine’s military says it attacked and destroyed a Russian submarine while it was anchored at a port in the occupied Crimean peninsula. The Rostov-on-Don, a kilo-class attack submarine launched in 2014, sank after it was struck in a missile attack on the port city of Sevastopol on Friday, …
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05-08-2024 DHAKA: At least three people have been killed in Bangladesh as clashes erupted between police and anti-government protesters who are demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina step down. The latest round of tension comes as the student leaders have declared a campaign of civil disobedience against the government. Police …
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05-08-2024 WASHINGTON/ PARIS/ BEIRUT: Several countries have urged their nationals to leave Lebanon as fears grow of a wider conflict in the Middle East. The US said they should do so on “any ticket available”. Iran has vowed “severe” retaliation against Israel, which it blames for the death of Hamas …
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04-08-2024 RAMALLAH/CAIRO, Aug 3 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike in the occupied West Bank killed a Hamas commander and four Islamic Jihad fighters on Saturday, the militant groups’ media reported, and the Israeli military said it had killed four more gunmen in a separate strike. The Israeli military said the …
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04-08-2024 DHAKA: Protesters in Bangladesh have taken to the streets to demand justice for the more than 200 people killed in last month’s student-led demonstrations over quotas in government jobs. The large protests on Saturday came as student leaders called for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign, heaping further pressure on …
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04-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Strong loan demand helped State Bank of India (SBI.NS), opens new tab, the country’s largest lender, beat estimates with $2 billion in April-June profits but it also witnessed its provisions for loan losses rise sharply. The state-run bank reported on Saturday its …
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04-08-2024 TEHRAN: The IRGC-affiliated media has vehemently rejected a report by the New York Times regarding the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, which claimed he was killed by an explosive device hidden in his room two months before the hit. “These lies are being propagated while the results of …
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