10-04-2024 BEIRUT: The killing of a local politician has deepened sectarian and political faultiness in Lebanon, raising fears of armed clashes between rival factions in a country already beset by a deep economic crisis, and cross-border shelling linked to the Gaza War. Government and religious officials have rushed to quell …
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10-04-2024 ORSK, RUSSIA: Flood sirens blared out in two Russian cities on Tuesday, warning thousands more people to evacuate immediately as two major rivers swelled to bursting point in some of the worst flooding in at least 70 years. Swiftly melting snow across swathes of the Ural Mountains and Siberia …
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10-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea against arrest in Delhi excise policy and said the material collected by Enforcement Directorate reveals that he conspired with others and was involved in his personal capacity as well as convener …
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10-04-2024 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s military appears to have abandoned the strategically important border town of Myawaddy on the eastern border with Thailand, after a sustained assault by an alliance of anti-coup fighters. Thai PBS reported on Monday that more than 600 Myanmar nationals, including 67 military officers and 410 non-commissioned officers …
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10-04-2024 MOSCOW/ BEIJING: Russia and China have agreed to discuss ways to deepen their security cooperation in Asia and Europe to counter attempts by the United States to impose its will on the region, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “For a long time, there was a Euro-Atlantic security structure …
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10-04-2024 STRASBOURG/ PARIS: A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change. The …
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10-04-2024 JERUSALEM/ CAIRO/ DOHA/ GAZA CITY: The Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza announced on Sunday was greeted with widespread surprise, even as the Israeli army and government have been at pains to stress that it has no great significance but to a world that has watched the intensity of Israel’s …
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10-04-2024 BERLIN/ THE HAGUE: Germany has said Israel’s security is at the “core” of its foreign policy, as it defends a genocide case brought against it at the UN’s highest court. Nicaragua had accused it of breaching the UN genocide convention by sending military hardware to Israel and ceasing funding …
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10-04-2024 MARYLAND/ BERN: Climate change could move “into uncharted territory” if temperatures don’t fall by the end of the year, a leading scientist has told media. The warning came as data showed last month was the world’s warmest March on record, extending the run of monthly temperature records to 10 …
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09-04-2024 NEW YORK/ MEXICO: Millions of people across Mexico, the US and Canada looked to the skies on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse carve a narrow path of darkness across the continent. Its shadow first touched the surface of the Earth in the Pacific Ocean before travelling across …
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