11-11-2024 BAKU/ KABUL: Afghan Taliban officials will attend a major United Nations climate conference that starts next week, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time they have attended since the former insurgents took power in 2021. The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku will be among …
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11-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Consumer price inflation in India climbed to a 14-month high of 5.81% in October primarily due to a spike in vegetable and edible oil prices, a Reuters poll of economists predicted, a shade below the central bank’s tolerance threshold of 6.0%. Food …
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11-11-2024 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi denied U.S. charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump and called on Saturday for confidence-building between the two hostile countries. “Now … a new scenario is fabricated … as a killer does not exist in reality, …
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11-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ REHOBOTH BEACH: US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday at the White House on Biden’s invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday. Trump will take office on Jan. 20 after defeating current Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential election. …
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11-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: Flooding in South Sudan has displaced more than 379,000 people, according to a United Nations update that warned about a surge in malaria. Aid agencies have said the world’s youngest country, highly vulnerable to climate change, is in the grip of its worst flooding in decades, …
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11-11-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: During his campaign for re-election, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened major tariffs on imports from a range of countries. Beijing bore the brunt of his attention, he threatened a 60 percent tariff on Chinese products. But India was a major target, too he described the country …
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11-11-2024 DOHA: Qatar has suspended its work as a mediator in ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas, officials say. The country said it would resume its work when Hamas and Israel “show their willingness” to negotiate. It comes after senior US officials reportedly said Washington would no …
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10-11-2024 VALENCIA/ MADRID: Huge numbers of people have protested in Valencia against authorities’ handling of recent deadly floods, demanding the resignation of regional head Carlos Mazon. Spanish outlets, including news agency Efe, cited a government body as saying 130,000 people took to the streets on Saturday – with protesters chanting …
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10-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: When Khalil Sayegh thinks back to his childhood in the Gaza Strip, the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius looms large in his memory. Sayegh, now 29, remembers the weddings, the Sunday school classes, the music lessons and the visits to the tiny graveyard. These days, Sayegh …
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10-11-2024 ABUJA: Nigeria’s human rights commission said on Friday an investigation had found “no evidence” that the Nigerian military deliberately attacked women and children or carried out secret abortions in its fight against an Islamist insurgency in the northeast. The Nigeria Human Rights Commission, which is appointed by the government, …
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