20-05-2024 TEHRAN: Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi says she is facing a new trial after she accused the security forces of sexually assaulting women. In a message from Evin prison where she is being held, Ms Mohammadi said the trial relates to an audio post, in which …
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19-05-2024 GAZA CITY: Hamas says Palestinians will continue to confront the ground invasion of Rafah and other places in Gaza “no matter how long the aggression lasts and regardless of its form”. More than 630,000 people have now fled Israel’s advance on southern Rafah with another 100,000 escaping from the …
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19-05-2024 KUALA LUMPUR: Two police officers have been killed and one injured in Malaysia after a man suspected to be part of the hardline Jemaah Islamiyah group stormed a police station. The attack took place in the early hours of Friday morning in the town of Ulu Tiram in the …
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19-05-2024 BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces arrested two senior members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Iraqi security forces said on Friday. The Kurdistan Region Security Council announced in a statement the arrest of Socrates Khalil, who was the right …
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19-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India’s Congress party, made an emotional appeal to voters in the family borough, asking them to vote for her son in a region that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party have dominated in the last ten years. …
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19-05-2024 NEW YORK: Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab plans to release the coming installment of the “Call of Duty” videogame to its subscription service, in a departure from its longtime practice of only selling the title independently, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The move is expected …
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19-05-2024 MOSCOW/ BEIJING: Vladimir Putin’s state visit to China this week was a show of strength. It was a chance for the Russian president to prove to the world that he has a powerful ally in his corner. The Russian leader is widely regarded as a pariah after ordering the …
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19-05-2024 SAN FRANCISCO: The man who attacked the husband of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. David DePape was convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping of a federal official in November after a week-long trial in San Francisco. The attack …
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18-05-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of three hostages from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say. The bodies were those of Shani Louk, Amit Buskila, and Itzhak Gelerenter, it said. The IDF said they had been murdered on 7 October and their remains taken back to Gaza. …
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18-05-2024 SYDNEY/ PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron’s ambitions to deepen French influence in the Pacific, where China is expanding its security ties, could be put at risk by the heavy-handed response to civil unrest in New Caledonia, Pacific analysts and officials said. Deadly riots erupted this week among indigenous Kanak, …
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