08-07-2025 PARIS: The River Seine in Paris has reopened publicly to swimmers for the first time since 1923 after a century-long ban. The seasonal opening of the Seine for swimming is viewed as a key legacy of the Paris 2024 Olympics, when open water swimmers and triathletes competed in its …
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07-07-2025 BOSTON: Eight migrants in United States custody have lost a last-ditch attempt to avoid deportation to South Sudan, a country facing ongoing criticism for human rights abuses. Yesterday, Judge Brian Murphy of Boston denied the eleventh-hour appeal, which has been the subject of a flurry of legal activity throughout …
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07-07-2025 MOSCOW: Asked about normalization with Israel, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud said that the kingdom’s priority is to end the war in Gaza “as a prelude to the establishment of a Palestinian state.” The comments came a day after US President Donald Trump reportedly hosted Saudi …
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07-07-2025 MELBOURNE: A Melbourne synagogue has been hit by an arson attack and an Israeli restaurant stormed by a violent group, some wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh, in a night of anti-Semitic attacks that have left Jewish people fearing for their safety. Police have released an image of a man they …
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07-07-2025 CALAIS, France: Early one morning this week, a dinghy motored along a vast beach in northern France, stopping every few hundred metres to pick up migrants bound for Britain. Four French police gave chase, but failed to reach the migrants before they reached water’s edge. Soon, with 70-odd people …
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07-07-2025 NEW YORK: Rwanda has exercised command and control over M23 rebels during their advance in eastern Congo, gaining political influence and access to mineral-rich territory, according to a confidential report by a group of United Nations experts. The report obtained by Reuters details training which the experts say Rwanda …
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07-07-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies DHARAMSHALA: A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify his successor as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a rare comment contradicting rival China’s long-held position. The Dalai Lama, …
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07-07-2025 SINJIL, WEST BANK: A five-metre-high metal fence slices across the eastern edge of Sinjil, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Heavy steel gates and roadblocks seal off all but a single route in and out of the town, watched over by Israeli soldiers at guard posts. “Sinjil …
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06-07-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made his first public appearance since the start of Iran’s conflict with Israel, according to state media. State television footage showed him greeting worshippers at a mosque on Saturday during a ceremony a day before the Shia festival of Ashura. Khamenei’s …
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06-07-2025 WASHINGTON: Elon Musk says he is launching a new political party, weeks after a dramatic falling out with US President Donald Trump. The billionaire announced on his social media platform X that he had set up the America Party and billed it as a challenge to the Republican and …
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