06-05-2024 NEW YORK: My student journalist colleagues and I had stayed late into the night on Columbia University’s campus the previous couple of days, reporting on a story that had grabbed the world’s attention: the pro-Palestine protests and encampment that had inspired similar campaigns in schools across the United States …
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06-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies PERTH/ SYDNEY: Western Australia police shot dead a “radicalized” 16-year-old boy on Saturday night after he stabbed a man in Perth. State Premier Roger Cook said the teenager attacked a man and then “rushed” at police officers, armed with a kitchen knife. The police responded …
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06-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Just weeks before the first ballot was cast in this year’s Indian election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at an event in Delhi rubbing shoulders with people known by names like BeerBiceps and Curly Tales. The event, an awards show, congratulating some of …
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06-05-2024 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied late into the night calling for a deal to bring hostages home, ahead of further ceasefire talks. Protesters in Tel Aviv chanted “war is not holy, life is”, with some accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of aiming to prolong the conflict. It …
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05-05-2024 Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has experienced its “wettest April since 1961”, receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country’s weather agency has said. April rainfall was recorded at 59.3mm (2.3 inches), “excessively above” the normal average of 22.5mm (0.9 inches), the metrology …
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05-05-2024 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: A growing global student movement to occupy university campuses has continued to coalesce and expand in recent days, following dramatic scenes involving pro-Palestinian protesters and police captured on cameras at American colleges. Student groups in the United Kingdom, France and Mexico among others have sought …
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05-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Police in India have arrested the social media head of one of the country’s main opposition parties over a doctored video of the interior minister. The Congress Party’s Arun Revanth Reddy was detained on Friday, accused of being behind a widely-shared video showing …
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05-05-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: All Palestinian journalists covering Israel’s war on Gaza have been awarded UNESCO’s world press freedom prize, the United Nations cultural agency has said. “In these times of darkness and hopelessness, we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists …
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05-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies QUEENSLAND: Police in Australia have launched an investigation following a complaint by Queensland MP Brittany Lauga that she was drugged and sexually assaulted. The assistant minister for health said she was attacked on a night out in her constituency of Yeppoon. “This could have happened …
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05-05-2024 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI: Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries. Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, was shot dead last June by masked gunmen in a busy car park in …
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