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27-08-2024 LONDON: Prime Minister Keir Starmer will warn Britons next week that the changes needed to fix Britain’s many problems will take time, saying “things will get worse before we get better” in a speech he describes as a chance to level with the public. After being elected as prime …

26-08-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies QUETTA/ KARACHI/ MUSAKHAIL: Separatist militants killed at least 39 people in “coordinated” attacks in southwestern Pakistan on Monday that largely targeted Shia-Muslims, ethnic, political, government officials said. In one of the attacks, dozens of militants stopped vehicles travelling on a highway …

26-08-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has made a televised speech after a heavy exchange of fire between the Lebanese group and Israel. Hezbollah’s attack on Sunday was billed as its response to the Israeli assassination of its senior military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut last month. Israel said it …

26-08-2024 OUAGADOUGOU: An armed group linked to al-Qaeda, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has claimed responsibility for what it says was an attack that killed up to 200 people and injured at least 140 in central Burkina Faso. The attack took place on Saturday in the region of Barsalogho, about …

26-08-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Hamas has called on Arab and Muslim countries and organisations to condemn and express outrage against Israeli forces for burning copies of the Quran at a mosque in Gaza. “The burning of copies of the Quran and desecration and destruction of mosques confirm the extremist nature …

26-08-2024 TRIPOLI: The United Nations Libya mission said late on Thursday it was concerned about reports of forces mobilizing in Tripoli and threats of force to resolve a crisis over control of the central bank. The mission’s deputy head, Stephanie Koury, told the UN Security Council on Monday that the …

26-08-2024 BRASILIA: Hundreds of migrants from India, Nepal and Vietnam have been stuck in Sao Paulo’s international airport for weeks in alarming conditions, sleeping on the floor as they wait to enter Brazil, according to the Public Defender’s Office and documents seen by Reuters on Friday. A spokesman for the …

26-08-2024 PARIS: Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported. According to officials the 39-year-old had been arrested under a warrant for offences related to …

26-08-2024 KHARTOUM: The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) which claims to be the government of Sudan took a small step towards alleviating that famine earlier this week by allowing 15 UN aid Lorries to cross the border from Chad to bring food to the starving. Aid agencies hope that it opens …

26-08-2024 ROME: Italian authorities investigating the deaths of seven people in the sinking of a luxury yacht in Sicily say they are looking into potential crimes of “shipwreck and manslaughter”. They stressed, however, that the investigation was in its initial stages and they were not currently looking at anyone specifically. …