03-02-2025 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious and deadly ever conducted. Enumerators and their heavily armed guards from Myanmar’s military were subject to repeated attacks from opposition groups, as they stumbled through a failed attempt to document the country’s population between October and December last year. …
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02-02-2025 GAZA/ CAIRO: Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest stage of a truce aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national, and Yarden Bibas were …
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02-02-2025 OSLO/ TURKU: A Norwegian cargo ship with an all-Russian crew suspected of damaging a Baltic Sea telecoms cable has been released by authorities in Norway after no link to the incident was found, the police said late on Friday. The Silver Dania was seized at the request of Latvian …
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02-02-2025 GAZA CITY/ LONDON: A surge in the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip since the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect on Jan. 19 is likely to ease the acute food emergency afflicting people in the war-ravaged territory, especially its children but even after relief reaches them, …
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02-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ PRAYAGRAJ: Families of people who were killed in a crush at a major religious festival in northern India this week are grieving their loss and waiting to take bodies of their relatives back home. At least 30 people died in the crush at the Kumbh …
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02-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KINSHASA: The UN says over 700 people have been killed in intense fighting in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, since Sunday. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said 2,800 people have been injured, as M23 rebels backed by Rwanda captured the capital of North …
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02-02-2025 PHILADELPHIA: A small medical transport plane crashed into several buildings in north-east Philadelphia on Friday evening, setting homes and vehicles ablaze and injuring people on the ground. The plane had been on a medical transport mission, carrying a child patient and her mother, and four crew members. “We know …
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02-02-2025 GAZA STRIP: As the Hamas-Israel ceasefire continues, political leaders of the Palestinian group have expressed cautious optimism about the new United States administration’s ability to continue to pressure Israel to the negotiating table, even as President Donald Trump and his team have made widely-condemned claims during his first weeks …
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02-02-2025 TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told media that any attack by Israel or the United States on Iran’s nuclear facilities would plunge the region into an “all-out war”. In an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic during a visit to Qatar, Araghchi warned that launching a military attack …
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01-02-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will impose tariffs on Saturday of 25% on Mexico, 25% on Canada and 10% on China, says the White House but Trump said on Friday that Canadian oil would be hit with lower tariffs of 10%, which could take effect later, on 18 February. …
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