06-06-2024 CANBERRA: Australia has abandoned a legal battle to have graphic footage of a church stabbing in Sydney removed from Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Declared a terror incident by police, the attack on bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in April was livestreamed online and led to riots outside the …
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06-06-2024 JERUSALEM: Firefighters battled raging blazes across northern Israel on June 3-4, ignited by rocket barrages launched by Hezbollah terrorists across the border in Lebanon. “Some 15 active fire sites were reported in the Galilee-Golan region alone, most resulting from rocket fire on an exceptionally hot day, with temperatures exceeding …
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06-06-2024 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has issued a sweeping executive order aimed at curbing record migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border that have left him politically vulnerable in an election year. Under the order, which took effect at midnight, officials can quickly remove migrants entering the US illegally without processing …
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05-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed a historic third win in a row in the country’s parliamentary elections, but his ruling alliance appears to have failed to win a large majority as predicted. He thanked voters and said he would continue the …
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05-06-2024 BEIJING: China has said it believes “all efforts” should be recognized in supporting peace measures around the Russia-Ukraine war, rejecting accusations from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that it was trying with Russia to undermine this month’s planned peace summit in Switzerland. China has never “fanned fire or fueled the …
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05-06-2024 There is compelling evidence that Ethiopian forces committed genocidal acts during the Tigray war, a new report has concluded. Issued on Tuesday by the United States-based New Lines Institute, the 120-page draft quotes multiple, widespread and credible independent reports that Ethiopian forces and their allies carried out “acts constituting …
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Bureau Report + Agencies 05-06-2024 NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition is leading as India counts votes but trends so far suggest the BJP might fall short of a majority on its own as a united opposition led by the Indian National Congress makes gains. …
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05-06-2024 SYDNET/ DUBAI: Australian airline Qantas (QAN.AX), opens new tab on Tuesday backed Boeing to bounce back from an unprecedented crisis that has led to an overhaul of the American plane-maker’s management and drawn scrutiny and criticism from some of its biggest customers. Boeing is searching for a new chief …
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05-06-2024 BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran-backed Shi’ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood. Though the attacks, often from hundreds of miles …
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05-06-2024 LONDON: A British bank that escaped prosecution for money laundering carried out billions of dollars of transactions for funders of terrorist groups, US court papers allege. Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s largest banks, avoided prosecution by the US Department of Justice after Lord Cameron’s government intervened on its …
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