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29-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Reliance Industries (RELI.NS), opens new tab, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex, has signed a one-year deal with Russia’s Rosneft to buy at least 3 million barrels of oil a month in roubles, four sources aware of the matter told media …

29-05-2024 BRUSSELS: The establishment of a Palestinian state is “the only route to peace” in the Middle East, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said as his country announced formal recognition, alongside Norway and Ireland. Sanchez spoke on Tuesday before a cabinet vote that approved the previously announced plan to …

29-05-2024 MEXICO CITY: Waves wash over abandoned homes in a Mexican village slowly being swallowed by the sea; a symbol of the climate change effects being felt by the major fossil fuel producer. The school where Adrian Perez used to attend classes in the community of El Bosque in the …

29-05-2024 NEW YORK/ LONDON/ MADRID: Thousands of protesters around the world took to the streets to condemn both “Israel” and the world leaders’ silence on the genocide, following the horrendous massacre “Israel” committed as it targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah. Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre against …

29-05-2024 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia will build a small nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan, the first such project in post-Soviet Central Asia, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said as he met visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin said on Monday that Russia would put $400m into a joint investment fund of …

29-05-2024 RAFAH: The Gaza Strip’s collapsing health system is under further strain after the Israeli army intensified bombing in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan area and other parts of the enclave, a day after an attack on a camp in Rafah killed 45 Palestinians. The Indonesian Field Hospital is the latest medical …

29-05-2024 PORT MORESBY: Hopes are fading that an estimated 2,000 people buried by a landslide in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province will be found alive, a United Nations official has said. “It is not a rescue mission, it is a recovery mission,” UNICEF Papua New Guinea’s Niels Kraaier said. “It …

29-05-2024 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is reported to have used extremely derogatory language in an incident that could have a profound impact on the way his attitude towards gay people is perceived. When asked at the Italian Bishops’ Conference if gay men should now be allowed to train for the …

28-05-2024 Bu SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR: Five Pakistani soldiers were martyred in gun-battles with Islamist militants in the country’s northwest bordering Afghanistan on Monday, the Pakistan Army said. The statement said the deaths were in addition to two other soldiers, including an officer, who were martyred the previous …

28-05-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY/ RAFAH: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war against Hamas amid international condemnation of an air strike that killed scores of Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday. At least 45 people were killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, while hundreds more were …