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13-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joined India’s ongoing general election boosting the opposition alliance on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court ordered his temporary release on bail in a controversial graft case. A fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the …

13-05-2024 JABALIA/ GAZA CITY: Israeli forces are “carpet-bombing” Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing and wounding several Palestinians, media reports say. The attacks come as Israel launches a new ground assault there, months after announcing Hamas had been “dismantled” in the area. Officials from the European Union and the United Nations …

13-05-2024 TBILISI: Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets of the capital Tbilisi on Saturday evening to protest a controversial “foreign influence” bill backed by the government. Protesters marched to the capital’s Europe Square holding Georgian and EU flags, chanting “no to the Russian law”. The law …

13-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: President Joe Biden upended part of one of the world’s most significant strategic relationships this week. It happened in a TV interview, when Biden was asked what would happen if Israel went ahead with a planned invasion of Rafah. “I’m not supplying the weapons,” he replied. Arms …

13-05-2024 STOCKHOLM: Swiss singer Nemo has won the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, with their song The Code. A compelling hybrid of opera and hip-hop, it topped the jury vote, helping the 24-year-old gain an impressive score of 591 points. The singer becomes the first non-binary artist to win Eurovision. …

13-05-2024 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Dozens of Virginia Commonwealth University students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Saturday, partly over a speaker’s response, the state governor to campus protests. It comes as US school officials brace for possible disruptions of commencement events over Israel-Gaza war protests. Dozens of colleges roiled by …

12-05-2024 By SJA Jafri GAZA CITY/ LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: Thousands of Palestinians are also celebrating Mother’s Day like millions enjoying across the world under the umbrellas of fears, tears, thirst, hungers and apathetic of entire Muslim Ummah, sources, victims and participants told PMI. Not a public holiday, but a …

12-05-2024 BEIJING: China’s car exports surged to a record high in April, data showed on Friday, as domestic sales slipped 5.8% from a year earlier amid intensifying price competition and consumers’ caution about spending on big items during a shaky economic recovery. Car exports jumped 38% year-on-year to 417,000 units …

12-05-2024 BERLIN: Hundreds of climate protesters have clashed with police in Germany after attempting to storm the Tesla factory near Berlin. Several people were injured, including three police officers, during Friday’s demonstration against the proposed expansion of the electric car giant’s only European plant. Police made several arrests and prevented …

12-05-2024 PRETORIA: South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah as part of additional emergency measures over the war in Gaza, the United Nations’ top court said. In the ongoing case brought by South Africa, which accuses Israel of acts of …