13-01-2025 ABUJA: As many as 21 government-backed fighters have been killed in an ambush by bandits in Nigeria’s northwest Katsina State, according to authorities. Katsina police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu told media on Saturday that a convoy of pro-government fighters was returning from paying condolences to the family of a …
Read More »Israel sends top officials to truce talks in Qatar
13-01-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA/ ISLAMABAD: Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, after killing dozens on Saturday, including a paramedic and at least eight people in a school-turned-shelter in northern Jabalia. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending senior negotiators, including the heads of Mossad and Shin Bet security agencies, to Qatar …
Read More »Greenland seeks closer ties with US
13-01-2025 NUUK/ WASHINGTON: There is a general consensus in Greenland that independence will happen eventually, and also that if Greenland votes for it, Denmark will accept and ratify it. However, it is also unlikely that Greenland would vote for independence unless its people are given guarantees that they can keep …
Read More »Sudanese army claims capture of key city from rebels
13-01-2025 KHARTOUM: The army in Sudan says it has captured a key city in the country’s east, one of its biggest gains yet in an almost two-year-long war against rebel forces. Footage on social media showed people celebrating in the streets as army soldiers entered the city of Wad Madani. …
Read More »S. Korea air crash recorders missing final four minutes
13-01-2025 SEOUL: Flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the South Korean passenger plane that crashed last month stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, the country’s transport ministry has said. The crash of the Jeju Air flight killed 179 people, making it the deadliest air accident on Korean soil. …
Read More »Trump avoids prison or fine in hush-money case sentencing
12-01-2025 NEW YORK: A judge has sentenced US President-elect Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” bringing to an end the first criminal trial of a former US president. The sentence in the hush-money payment case means the incoming president has been spared any penalty, including jail time or a fine, …
Read More »‘Greenland does not want to be American or Danish’
12-01-2025 NUUK: Greenlanders do not want to be American or Danish, the Arctic island’s prime minister has said, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to acquire the territory. Prime Minister Mute Egede, who had insisted the territory was “not for sale” after Trump flagged …
Read More »US Supreme Court to hear fight over looming ban on TikTok
12-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Justices at the United States Supreme Court have signaled scepticism towards a challenge brought by the video-sharing platform TikTok, as it seeks to overturn a law that would force the app’s sale or ban it by January 19. Friday’s hearing is the latest in a legal saga that …
Read More »Israeli air strikes hit Yemen & Lebanon as dozens more killed
12-01-2025 GAZA/ SANA’A: Israel’s military said it attacked sites in Yemen controlled by Houthi fighters, including a power station near the capital Sanaa, and the ports of Hodeidah and Ras Isa. Several people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon’s south with Israel’s military saying later that …
Read More »Indian Central Bank Chief seeks to improve forecasts
12-01-2025 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s new central bank governor Sanjay Malhotra has initiated a review of the Reserve Bank of India’s inflation and growth forecasting tools to minimize projection errors, four sources said. Malhotra, who took charge last month, is asking the RBI’s internal teams to include new datasets, analysis …
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