08-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MANIPUR/ GUWAHATI: Six people, including one civilian, were killed as fresh violence broke out between two warring ethnic communities in the northeast Indian state of Manipur on Saturday, authorities said. The majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis have clashed sporadically since last …
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08-09-2024 NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s sentencing in his Manhattan hush money criminal trial has been postponed until after the November election. Judge Juan Merchan on Friday delayed the sentencing to 26 November, citing “the unique time frame this matter currently finds itself in” among his reasons. Lawyers for Trump, the …
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08-09-2024 JERUSALEM/ JENIN: Israeli forces have withdrawn from Jenin city and its refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after a major nine-day operation there. The area, a stronghold of militants and with a civilian population of about 60,000 was targeted in one of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) biggest …
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08-09-2024 PARIS: Protests across France are set to take place against the appointment of Michel Barnier as the country’s new prime minister. The demonstrations were called by parties on the political left, whose candidate for prime minister was rejected by President Emmanuel Macron. Macron chose the former EU Brexit negotiator …
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08-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has completed its journey back to Earth but the astronauts it was supposed to be carrying remain behind on the International Space Station. The empty craft travelled in autonomous mode after undocking from the orbiting lab. The capsule, which suffered technical problems after it launched …
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08-09-2024 NAIROBI: Parents have been waiting anxiously to find out if their missing children are still alive after a boarding school in central Kenya caught fire. Seventeen pupils were confirmed dead by the Ministry of Education on Friday morning, while the deputy president said 70 children were unaccounted for, so …
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08-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has called for a “full investigation” into the killing of a US-Turkish woman in the occupied West Bank during a protest on Friday. Local media reported that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead by Israeli forces as she took part in a weekly …
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07-09-2024 NAIROBI: At least 17 pupils have died after a dormitory at a boarding school in central Kenya caught fire on Thursday night, police said. There are fears the death toll could rise as more than a dozen others have been taken to hospital with severe burns. The cause of …
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07-09-2024 WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed a 27-year-old queen as their new monarch. The choice of Nga Wai hono i te po Paki was welcomed as a symbol of change for the Indigenous community. She is the youngest child and only daughter of King Tuheitia, who died last …
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07-09-2024 WASHINGTON/ MANAGUA: The United States has secured the release of 135 political prisoners held in Nicaragua, including students and members of a faith organization. In a statement on Thursday, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the prisoners were among the thousands of Nicaraguans caught up in a multiyear …
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