23-01-2025 CANBERRA: Australia is investigating suspicions that funding from outside the country is behind a surge in anti-Semitic crime. Detectives investigating the anti-Semitic attacks across the country have concluded that foreign actors have been paying local criminals to commit them, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday. However, he declined …
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23-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Having unexpectedly won two Indian state votes late last year, in big part due to a slew of handouts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is deploying the same playbook in a bid to wrest back Delhi for the first time in nearly three decades next …
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23-01-2025 BEIJING/ MOSCOW: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a video call hours after Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, pledging to bring bilateral ties to “greater heights”, according to state media on both sides. Calling Xi a “dear friend”, Putin said Russia and …
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23-01-2025 Warning: This story contains details some may find distressing. KHARTOUM/ TRIPOLI: “We live in terror,” whispers Layla over the phone so nobody can hear. She fled Sudan with her husband and six children early last year in search of safety and is now in Libya. Like all the Sudanese …
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23-01-2025 JERUSALEM: Israel’s military chief has resigned, saying he recognized his responsibility for its failure on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian armed group Hamas carried out a deadly attack on the country that triggered the Gaza war. In a letter to the defence minister, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi admitted …
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23-01-2025 ISTANBUL: At least 76 people have been killed in a fire that engulfed a popular Turkish ski resort hotel, leaving some to jump out of windows. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday …
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23-01-2025 WASHINGTON: The bishop at President Donald J. Trump’s inaugural prayer service on Tuesday was imploring him to “have mercy” on gay, lesbian and transgender children, as well as undocumented immigrants. “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” asked Bishop Mariann …
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23-01-2025 JENINE: Nine Palestinians have been killed and 35 injured by Israeli forces during a major operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Palestinian media reported that there were a series of air strikes as a large number of troops moved in to the …
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22-01-2025 WASHINGTON: On the first full day of his presidency, Donald Trump defends his decision to release two high-profile prisoners jailed over the Capitol riot. Former Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes were freed after the president issued nearly 1,600 pardons and commutations in …
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22-01-2025 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Monday that the billions of euros of taxpayer money spent on Europe’s military budgets should not be used to buy only American weapons, pushing for more investment in home-grown defence industries. Speaking minutes before the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, who …
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