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19-06-2024 RIYADH/ MINA: Throngs of tightly packed pilgrims struggled through searing heat which has claimed lives during the annual Haj pilgrimage as temperatures reached 51.8 degrees Celsius (125.2 Fahrenheit) in the shade of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi state TV said on Tuesday. Six Jordanian citizens died of heat …

19-06-2024 RAFAH/ CAIRO: Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday killed at least 17 Palestinians in two of the Gaza Strip’s historic refugee camps and Israeli tanks pushed deeper into the enclave’s southern city of Rafah, residents and medics said. Residents reported heavy bombardments from tanks and planes in several areas of Rafah, …

18-06-2024 MAPUTO: “If (the jihadists) knew I was a government official, they would have beheaded me,” Tomas Langa, a civil servant in northern Mozambique, told media. He feels he had a lucky escape. We have changed his named for his safety. Woken in the early hours of 10 May by …

18-06-2024 LONDON: The UK’s main stock market retook its crown as Europe’s most valuable for the first time in nearly two years, data shows. The total value of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) hit $3.18 trillion on Monday, overtaking the $3.13tn total value of companies listed in …

18-06-2024 PARIS: Boeing’s chief executive Dave Calhoun will tell US lawmakers on Tuesday that he understands concerns about its safety culture after a mid-air emergency in January raised alarm. In prepared remarks ahead of the US Senate sub-committee hearing, he said: “Our culture is far from perfect, but we are …

18-06-2024 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his way to the North Korean capital Pyongyang where he will meet leader Kim Jong Un. The two leaders last met in September in Vladivostok but this is Putin’s first visit to Pyongyang since 2000. The US and Seoul have accused North …

18-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Priyanka Gandhi, sister of India’s main opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, is set to contest her first election, ending decades of anticipation by her supporters. Gandhi is a descendant of the Nehru-Gandhi family, India’s most famous political dynasty, and her electoral debut will …

18-06-2024 BRUSSELS: The head of Nato has said that China should face consequences for supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine, if it does not change its ways. Jens Stoltenberg said Beijing was “trying to get it both ways” by supporting Russia’s war effort, while also trying to maintain relationships with European …

18-06-2024 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is set to announce a new policy that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation, according to administration officials. The action will apply to those who have been in the country for at least 10 years and will allow …

17-06-2024 MINA: Saudi Arabia on Monday warned of a temperature spike in Makkah as Muslim pilgrims wrapped up the Hajj in searing conditions, with more than a dozen heat-related deaths confirmed. One of the world’s largest religious gatherings unfolded during the oven-like Saudi summer again this year, and authorities recorded …