16-04-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: As Sudan’s civil war enters its third year, the conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has displaced approximately 13 million people, according to the United Nations. “The conflict has provoked the displacement of 13 million people, including 8.6 million internally displaced …
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16-04-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has decided to pursue a path of trade liberalization with the United States, India’s trade secretary said on Tuesday, with the two countries signing the terms of reference for the first part of a bilateral trade deal. India and the US agreed in February …
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16-04-2025 VICTORIA/ LONDON: Amnesty International has relaunched its Hong Kong office “in exile”, more than three years after the rights group shut its operation in the Chinese financial hub citing risks from sweeping national security legislation. The Chinese government has tightened its grip on Hong Kong after massive and sometimes …
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16-04-2025 BEIJING: China accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday of launching “advanced” cyber-attacks during the Asian Winter Games in February, targeting essential industries. Police in the northeastern city of Harbin said three alleged NSA agents to a wanted list and also accused the University of California …
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16-04-2025 GAZA STRIP/ BEIRUT: Hamas is reviewing a new ceasefire proposal from Israel and will respond “as soon as possible” as the movement’s spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri tells Al Jazeera that “the request to disarm Hamas is not acceptable to even hear”. At least 17 Palestinians have been killed and …
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16-04-2025 PARIS: Several French prisons were attacked overnight in response to government efforts to clamp down on drug trafficking, senior officials said on Tuesday, as authorities grapple with what they have called a “tsunami” of cocaine coming into the country. Unknown assailants fired automatic weapons at the prison in the …
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16-04-2025 NEW YORK: An organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by immigration officials as he attended an interview as part of his application for US citizenship, his lawyer says. Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who is due to graduate next month from the New York …
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15-04-2025 BAGHDAD/ NAJAF: More than a thousand people have been left with respiratory problems after a sandstorm swept across Iraq’s central and southern parts of the country, health officials said. One official in Muthanna province reported to media at least 700 cases of what they said was suffocation. Footage shared …
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15-04-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies NANKANA SAHIB: Thousands of Sikhs were in Pakistan to celebrate Vaisakhi, a harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year and is mostly observed in Punjab and northern India. Pakistani authorities this year granted more than 6,500 visas to Indian Sikhs, …
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15-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel intensifies its land and air attacks on Gaza, with artillery and air raids hitting several areas of Khan Younis in the south. The WHO says a Palestinian child has died due to disruption of medical care after Israeli forces bombed the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza …
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