02-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip during last 24 hours, mostly in the north where one attack hit a hospital, torching medical supplies and disrupting operations, the enclave’s health officials said. Israel’s military has accused the Palestinian militant group …
Read More »Elon Musk is the latest billionaire to seek gov’t power
02-11-2024 NEW YORK: If Elon Musk joins the United States government following a Donald Trump victory in the presidential election, he will be the latest in a succession of billionaire businesspeople to hold public office. From the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg …
Read More »‘India central bank well-equipped for post-US election volatility’
02-11-2024 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s central bank is well-equipped to deal with a potential sudden outflow of foreign funds and any steep fall in the rupee if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins next week’s US presidential election, two sources familiar with the bank’s thinking said. The Reserve Bank of India …
Read More »Protesters face bullets for political change in Mozambique
02-11-2024 MAPUTO: Rights activist Cidia Chissungo has spent the last few days poring over images she never thought she’d see in Mozambique: Young men with bloodied bodies pockmarked with bullet wounds; teenagers with eyes swollen shut from being hit with tear gas canisters by the Mozambican police. Chissungo, 28, who …
Read More »Trump’s & Harris’s paths to presidential victory
02-11-2024 WASHINGTON: In the US Electoral College, a candidate needs at least 270 out of 538 electoral votes to win the election. Each state is allocated a certain number of electoral votes based on its population. Some states consistently favor one party, while “battleground” or “swing states” can shift, making …
Read More »N Korea fires banned missile in longest flight yet
02-11-2024 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes – the longest flight recorded yet before falling into waters off its east, South Korea and Japan said. The ICBM was fired at a sharply-raised angle and reached as high as 7,000km (4,350 miles). This …
Read More »US envoys in push for Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
02-11-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Senior American officials have returned to the Middle East to try to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the negotiators had made “good progress” on Thursday on a potential deal. Brett McGurk, President Biden’s Middle East coordinator, …
Read More »Spain mourns as death toll passes 150 in catastrophic floods
02-11-2024 MADRID: At least 158 people have died in Spain’s worst flooding disaster in generations as rescuers battle odds to find survivors. On Thursday more than 1,200 workers, aided by drones, were deployed to the rescue mission as rains continued to threaten parts of the country. “Right now the most …
Read More »India, China complete troops pull-back from border
01-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India and China have completed pulling back their troops from two face-off points on their disputed Himalayan frontier as planned, an Indian defence official said on Wednesday. The nuclear-armed neighbors reached a deal last week on patrolling the frontier in the Indian territory …
Read More »UK raises taxes by most since 1993 in first Labour budget
01-11-2024 LONDON: Britain’s new finance minister Rachel Reeves announced the biggest tax increases in three decades in her first budget on Wednesday, saying she had to repair the country’s broken public services with heavy spending. Businesses and the wealthy faced the brunt of the tax hikes and Reeves also paved …
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