15-07-2024 QUITO: A court in Ecuador has handed down prison sentences of 12 to 34 years to five people found guilty of conspiring to murder presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Journalist-turned-politician Villavicencio was shot dead while leaving a rally in August 2023. The killing of the anticorruption campaigner left the country …
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14-07-2024 NAIROBI: Kenya’s police watchdog has said it is investigating whether there was any police involvement following the discovery of nine mutilated bodies in an abandoned quarry in Mukuru, a collection of slums south of Nairobi. The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) said at least “nine deceased persons” were dumped …
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14-07-2024 LOS ANGLES: Meta has said it is rolling back restrictions on former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, as the presumptive Republican nominee seeks to regain the White House in November. The social media company headed by Mark Zuckerberg had indefinitely suspended Trump’s accounts following his praise …
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14-07-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: A court in Pakistan has acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on charges of unlawful marriage, according to his party and lawyer. Khan and his wife Bushra Khan, also known as Bushra Bibi, were sentenced to seven years in prison, days before …
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14-07-2024 DETROIT: Seeking to revive his struggling reelection campaign, President Joe Biden held a rare rally in Detroit, telling a cheering crowd he wasn’t going to leave the race and warning that Republican Donald Trump poses a serious threat. Biden, 81, is trying to shift the conversation from his mental …
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Trump shot in ear in rally assassination attempt 14-07-2024 BUTLER: Footage showed him grimace and raise a hand to his right ear, before ducking as sharp cracks, a series of shots broke out. He was quickly swarmed by US Secret Service agents and dragged off stage to a waiting vehicle. …
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14-07-2024 NEW DELHI: India plans to overhaul more than 200 state-run firms to make them more profitable, signaling a departure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aggressive privatization, opens new tab program that has struggled to take off, government sources said. The program to privatize a major portion of India’s lumbering …
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14-07-2024 GAZA CITY: The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says hundreds more Palestinians have been martyred in an Israeli air strike on a designated humanitarian area, in an attack which Israel says targeted senior Hamas leaders. More than 289 people were injured, according to the health ministry’s statement. Hamas says …
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14-07-2024 LAGOS: At least 22 people, including students, have been confirmed dead after a two-storey school building collapsed in central Nigeria, according to the authorities, sending rescuers on a frantic search for more than 100 people trapped in the rubble. The Saint Academy building in Plateau state’s Busa Buji community …
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13-07-2024 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran is still conducting indirect nuclear talks with the United States via Oman, the country’s Etemad newspaper on Thursday quoted Iran’s acting foreign minister as saying. Ali Bagheri Kani’s reported comments followed remarks on Monday in which a White House spokesperson said the United States was not …
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