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07-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s bruised and battered opposition was largely written off in the lead-up to the national election as too weak and fragmented to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his powerful Hindu nationalist governing party. It scored a stunning comeback, slowing the Modi …

07-06-2024 GAZA CITY/ UNITED NATIONS: An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced Palestinians in central Gaza has reportedly killed at least 35 people. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in …

07-06-2024 NAYPYIDAW: At least 50 people were killed by Myanmar soldiers in a raid on a village in Rakhine State last week, say local residents and opposition forces. Eyewitnesses told the BBC the village was subjected to two-and-half days of terror as soldiers blindfolded and beat them up, poured burning …

06-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HYDERABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formally named him on Wednesday to lead a new coalition government for a third straight term, a day after it regained power with a surprisingly slim majority. Modi, a populist who has dominated …

06-06-2024 RIYADH: Wesam Al Ghamdi, the CEO of Neom Green Hydrogen Co, claimed to be the world’s largest hydrogen plant, has revealed that the construction of the plant is advancing significantly. The hydrogen plant is under-construction on the floating port “Oxagon”, one of the many projects under Saudi Arabia’s $1.5 …

06-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a tougher-than-anticipated third term after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to secure an outright majority for the first time since sweeping to power a decade ago. The BJP won 240 seats in the staggered election, 32 …

06-06-2024 GAZA CITY: Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in heavy Israeli bombardment of the central Gaza Strip, as US, Qatari, and Egyptian mediators plan to resume talks on a proposed ceasefire and captive release deal. Urban combat and shelling rocked Gaza’s southern city of Rafah near the Egyptian border, …

06-06-2024 LOS ANGELES: More than 34 million Americans are preparing for extreme temperatures, as a heat dome descends on the western part of the US this week. Forecasters are warning residents in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona to prepare for temperatures to reach around 40C (104F) before Friday. Later in …

06-06-2024 CANBERRA: Australia has abandoned a legal battle to have graphic footage of a church stabbing in Sydney removed from Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Declared a terror incident by police, the attack on bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in April was livestreamed online and led to riots outside the …

06-06-2024 JERUSALEM: Firefighters battled raging blazes across northern Israel on June 3-4, ignited by rocket barrages launched by Hezbollah terrorists across the border in Lebanon. “Some 15 active fire sites were reported in the Galilee-Golan region alone, most resulting from rocket fire on an exceptionally hot day, with temperatures exceeding …