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07-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s top diplomat in India stepped down after she was accused of smuggling nearly $2 million worth of gold into the country, as per media reports. Zakia Wardak, the Afghan Consul-General in India’s Mumbai, confirmed her resignation on her official X …

07-05-2024 JAKARTA/ JERUSALEM: An international investigation has found that at least four Israeli-linked firms have been selling invasive spyware and cyber surveillance technology to Indonesia, which has no formal diplomatic ties with Israel and is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. The research by Amnesty International’s Security Lab based on …

07-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ CANBERRA: Canada’s investigation into alleged Indian involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Vancouver last year is a “political compulsion”, India’s foreign minister has said after three Indian citizens were arrested over the killing. Canadian police on Friday arrested the trio …

07-05-2024 RAFAH: Israeli air attacks kill at least 10 Palestinians in Rafah as Hamas fires rockets at the Karem Abu Salem crossing, killing three Israeli soldiers and wounding 11 others. The latest round of negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza has ended in the Egyptian capital Cairo, but crucial gaps …

07-05-2024 MELBOURNE/ SYDNET: Australian airline Qantas Airways (QAN.AX), opens new tab said on Monday it had agreed to pay a penalty of AU$100 million ($66 million) to settle a lawsuit that accused it of illegally selling thousands of tickets for flights that had already been cancelled. The penalty is subject …

07-05-2024 WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democratic rival President Joe Biden of running a “Gestapo administration” in a private address to donors in which he also attacked prosecutors involved in his criminal indictments, according to a recording heard by US media outlets. Trump, whose own rhetoric has drawn …

06-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has branded domestic violence a “national crises” amid an outcry over the rise in the number of killings of women by their intimate partners, and pledged action to tackle the issue, including new funding to help survivors as …

06-05-2024 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Police have arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia (UVA) as campuses across the United States brace for more turmoil during graduation ceremonies. Tensions flared at UVA’s campus in Charlottesville, where protests had been largely peaceful until Saturday morning, …

06-05-2024 ABUJA: As many as 42 people have died from a measles outbreak in a little more than a week in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, the state’s health commissioner says. Felix Tangwami said on Friday that the measles outbreak had mostly affected two local government areas where nearly 200 …

06-05-2024 LONDON: Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has suffered a resounding defeat in local elections, a further sign that it is likely to be removed from power in upcoming general elections. With nearly all council results in, the Conservatives have lost 473 seats, while the opposition Labour Party has picked up …