02-06-2022 WASHINGTON/ OKLAHOMA: At least three people were killed by a gunman at a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, police said, as Americans still grappled with grief and anger over the shooting at a Texas school just over a week ago. The gunman, who was armed with a …
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02-06-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s financial crime-fighting agency wants to question the two most senior members of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, who lead the main opposition Congress party, as it investigates a complaint of money laundering, the party said on Wednesday. The summons by the enforcement directorate is linked to …
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02-06-2022 CARTIGLIANO: Businesses in the sleepy Italian town of Cartigliano are so worried about its declining birth rate and lack of workers that they have begun paying families’ nursery school fees and childcare costs to spur them to have more babies. Cartigliano, a town of 3,800 inhabitants and scores small …
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02-06-2022 WASHINGTON: White House officials have confirmed that the United States will send M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, also known as HIMARS, to war-torn Ukraine. The medium-range rocket systems have long topped the lists of weapons requests by Kyiv as fighting against Russian forces has concentrated in the eastern …
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01-06-2022 Bureau Report A 30-year-old mother in India was arrested for throwing her six children into a deep well in Maharashtra’s Raigad district that led to their deaths on Monday evening, police reported. The woman, Runa Chikhuna Sahani, pushed her five daughters and one son, all aged between one-and-a-half years …
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01-06-2022 RIYADH/ JERUSALEM: Israel and Saudi Arabia are getting closer to their first public agreement as Israel considers Saudi appeal to change the international status of the two Islands in the Red Sea, Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The development comes amid growing speculation that Jerusalem and Riyadh are readying small steps …
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01-06-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURE: India expects rainfall in the biggest coal-producing areas of its east-central region to be below the long-term average this year, potentially easing utilities’ coal shortages as there could be fewer disruptions to mining activity due to flooding. East-central India includes the states …
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01-06-2022 EAST JERUSALEM: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has described attacks by far-right Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem as “aggression which crossed all red lines”. Tens of thousands of flag-waving, ultranationalist Israelis raided the Muslim quarter of the Old City on Sunday during the so-called “flag march”. The provocative march …
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01-06-2022 GENEVA/ UNITED NATIONS: The tobacco industry is a far greater threat than many realize as it is one of the world’s biggest polluters, from leaving mountains of waste to driving global warming, the World Health Organization has warned in a new report. The WHO report Tobacco: Poisoning Our Planet, …
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01-06-2022 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: Israel signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, it’s first with an Arab state and one which eliminates most tariffs and aims to lift their annual bilateral trade to more than $10 billion. It was signed in Dubai by Minister of Economy …
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