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28-11-2024 CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: An Australian Senate committee has backed a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 but said social media platforms should not force users to submit personal data such as passport and other digital identification to prove their age. Australia plans to trial an age-verification …

28-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party said it had no reason to defend billionaire Gautam Adani on Tuesday following his US indictment over alleged bribery to secure power deals in India. The main opposition Congress party has accused Modi and his Bharatiya Janata …

28-11-2024 DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh have used tear gas against Hindus protesting against the arrest of a religious leader as neighboring India called for ensuring the safety of Hindus and minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. Chinmoy Krishna Das, also known as Krishna Das Prabhu, was arrested at Dhaka airport on …

28-11-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: US President Joe Biden has announced a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah. The deal will take effect from 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) Wednesday, according to Biden. Earlier, Israel launched extensive air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs after its military issued evacuation orders in the area. …

27-11-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: The United Nations has ordered the evacuation of its staff from Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince as clashes between armed gangs, the police and civilians armed with machetes intensified in recent days. A UN helicopter on Monday ferried evacuees 14 at a time from the capital to the northern city …

28-11-2024 JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu presented the ceasefire deal in the context of what he said were Israel’s “unprecedented achievements” over the past year of a seven-front war. He said Israel had set Hezbollah back “tens of years” and that it was not the same group it had been before. There …

27-11-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Supporters of jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan have been pushed back by security forces after reaching the heart of the heavily-barricaded capital earlier on Tuesday. The convoy of opposition protesters has been marching towards Islamabad’s D Chowk or Democracy Square …

27-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL: The United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan said on Tuesday the ruling Taliban had arbitrarily detained journalists 256 times since their takeover three years ago, and urged authorities there to protect the media. In a reply accompanying the report, the Taliban-led foreign ministry denied having arrested that …

27-11-2024 PARIS: French prosecutors have demanded a 20-year jail sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who is accused of drugging his former wife Gisele for a decade and inviting 50 men recruited online to rape her. Pelicot, who has admitted to the charges, should also undergo medical treatment for 10 years, prosecutors …

27-11-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India expects food inflation to slow in the coming months, backed by a bumper summer crop harvest, and remains “cautiously optimistic” on its economic growth, according to a government report. “A bumper kharif (summer crop) harvest is expected to lower food inflation in the coming …