17-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s main opposition Congress party has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to take all political parties into confidence regarding worsening ties with Canada a day after the two countries said they expelled each other’s diplomats. Ties deteriorated further on Monday with …
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17-10-2024 BEIRUT: At least 10 people have been killed in Israeli bombings of homes and a healthcare centre in Qana, a Lebanese village that suffered Israeli massacres in 1996 and 2006. Israeli attacks killed at least 61 people across Gaza on Tuesday, including 10 members of the Abu Taamiya family. …
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17-10-2024 The US has hit Lufthansa with a record $4m (3m) penalty after the airline barred Jewish passengers from a 2022 flight because some allegedly refused to follow rules requiring face masks. The Department of Transportation said Lufthansa discriminated against the passengers, treating them “as if they were all a …
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17-10-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: The US has written to Israel, giving it 30 days to boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or risk having some US military assistance cut off. The letter, sent on Sunday, amounts to the strongest known written warning from the US to its ally and …
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17-10-2024 PARIS/ ROME: French and Italian police say they have broken up an international fraud ring that was passing poor quality bottles of wine off as vintages worth up to €15,000 (£12,500) each. Six people including a Russian national who is the suspected ringleader have been arrested in Paris, Turin …
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17-10-2024 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI: India and Canada have expelled their top diplomats amid escalating tensions over the assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil, marking a new low in a historically cordial relationship. While past disagreements have strained ties, none have reached this level of open confrontation. In 1974, …
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17-10-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ BEIRUT: The UN’s humanitarian office has called for an investigation into an Israeli air strike that killed 23 people in northern Lebanon on Monday. Spokesman Jeremy Laurence said the strike, on the Christian-majority village of Aitou, raised “real concerns” with respect to international humanitarian law. Laurence said …
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16-10-2024 SYDNEY: Australia has warned its citizens not to travel to Israel and urged Australians there to leave the country while commercial flights remained available, citing the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. “The Australian government has serious concerns the security situation in Israel and the Occupied …
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16-10-2024 DIAMNIADIO: Senegal’s government unveiled a 25-year development plan on Monday that it said would lay the foundations for economic sovereignty through competitiveness, sustainable resource management and good governance. The agenda was launched seven months after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye clinched a landslide election victory on a promise to improve …
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16-10-2024 BEIJING/ TAIPEI: China’s military vowed to take further action against Taiwan if needed after staging a day of war games on Monday it said were a warning to “separatist acts” and which drew condemnation from the Taiwanese and US governments. Democratically governed Taiwan had been bracing for more war …
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