08-11-2024 ALGIERS: For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s blood-soaked “dark decade”, in which up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed in …
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08-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Republicans have retaken control of the US Senate, after flipping seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana. The results guarantee the Republicans at least 52 out of 100 seats in the new chamber, with a handful of races still undecided. Jim Justice, West Virginia’s current governor, won the …
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08-11-2024 BERLIN: Germany’s governing coalition is in crisis after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year. Scholz said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who leads a rival party that has been …
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08-11-2024 CANBERRA: Australia’s government says it will introduce world-first legislation to ban children under 16 from social media. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the “harm” social media was inflicting on Australian children. “This one is for …
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07-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris tells supporters “do not despair” as she vows to help Donald Trump with the transfer of power. “I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case,” she says in …
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07-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has won the US election and will make a historic return to the White House. The Republican told jubilant crowds in Florida: “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate”. Of the seven crucial swing states, Trump won North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and …
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07-11-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli police use skunk water and other extreme measures to disperse protests in Tel Aviv after PM Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. New Defence Minister Israel Katz promises return of captives and the “destruction” of Hamas and Hezbollah. Israel has killed at least 61 Palestinians in …
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07-11-2024 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s main mission is to diversify its heavily oil-dependent economy. But that “Vision 2030” project is undergoing a transition of its own. The kingdom’s $950 billion Public Investment Fund (PIF), tasked by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) with delivery, is increasingly focused on a collection of …
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07-11-2024 HANOI/ TAIPEI: Elon Musk’s SpaceX asked Taiwanese suppliers to transfer manufacturing off the island, leading to some relocating portions of their supply chain, according to sources employed by and close to the equipment makers and corporate documents. A source at a company that is one of the numerous subcontractors …
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07-11-2024 BERLIN: The party leaders of Germany’s increasingly loveless coalition met for more crisis talks on Tuesday but a budgetary compromise that could avert the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government still looked elusive. The ideologically inchoate alliance was thrown into disarray when Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s neo-liberal Free Democrats, …
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