09-12-2024 Bureau Report DOHA: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday reacted to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100 per cent tariffs on BRICS nations, stating that India has “no interest” in weakening the US dollar. Speaking at the Doha Forum on Saturday, Jaishankar reflected on the positive relationship …
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09-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Syrian rebels have declared the capital Damascus “free” after entering the city to scant resistance from regime forces, while claiming President Bashar al-Assad has fled the capital, losing his decades-long grip on power. “We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,” the Military Operations …
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09-12-2024 Lawmakers in South Korea have narrowly failed to impeach the nation’s president over his short-lived attempt to declare martial law. A bill to censure Yoon Suk Yeol fell five votes short of the 200 needed to pass, with many members of parliament in the ruling People Power Party (PPP) …
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09-12-2024 BERLIN: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has named party leader Alice Weidel as its first chancellor nominee, before snap elections expected in February next year. The Chinese-speaking Weidel accepted the nomination on Saturday, saying her anti-immigration, eurosceptic party wants Germany to be “at the top again worldwide”. The …
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08-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Rebel fighters declared the Syrian capital of Damascus “liberated” in a televised statement carried on state television on Sunday. “Damascus has been liberated and the tyrant Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, and oppressed prisoners in regime prisons have been released,” a spokesperson said reading from a statement surrounded …
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08-12-2024 TBILISI: Georgia’s capital Tbilisi has resounded with the crackle of fireworks late into the night for the past week their eruptions becoming a symbol of the large pro-EU protests that have plunged the South Caucasus country into crisis. With riot police using water cannon, tear gas and mass arrests …
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08-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the State Department and “deep state” elements in the US of trying to destabilize India in conjunction with a group of investigative journalists and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. The accusation comes as a surprise …
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08-12-2024 DOHA/ WASHINGTON: Qatar is engaging with the incoming Trump administration on Gaza after sensing fresh momentum for ceasefire talks following the US election, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Saturday. The war in Gaza has been raging for over 14 months, …
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08-12-2024 ACCRA: Election Day has arrived in Ghana, where a debt crisis and high living costs mean the economy is uppermost in the minds of many voters. The West African nation is guaranteed a new president as Nana Akufo-Addo steps down after reaching the official limit of two terms in …
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08-12-2024 PARIS: A gravely weakened President Emmanuel Macron hopes to win a new lease of political life from Saturday’s ceremonial reopening of Notre Dame. Joined by US President-elect Donald Trump, Prince William and other international figures, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Macron will seek to present the renovated cathedral as …
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