27-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Thousands of people have protested in several cities across Syria after a video circulates showing an attack on an Alawite shrine in the north, a war monitor and witnesses say. Syria’s new rulers said the video was “old” and “unknown groups” were behind the attack, saying “republishing” the …
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27-12-2024 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Kurdish fighters in Syria will either lay down their weapons or “be buried”, amid hostilities between Turkiye-backed Syrian rebels and other armed groups since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad earlier this month. Following al-Assad’s ouster on December …
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27-12-2024 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The Pakistani military conducted air raids in neighboring Afghanistan late on Tuesday night, targeting hideouts of the Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, armed group in Paktika province, according to security officials. While no official statement was issued by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs …
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27-12-2024 KHAN YOUNIS/ GAZA: The face of Samar Ahmed, 37, shows clear signs of exhaustion. It is not just because she has five children, nor that they have been displaced several times since the start of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza 14 months ago and are now living in cramped, …
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27-12-2024 MAPUTO: More than 1,500 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Mozambique, taking advantage of ongoing political unrest triggered by disputed election results, police say. Thirty-three people were killed and 15 injured in clashes with guards, police chief Bernardino Rafael told a press conference. About 150 more fugitives have …
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26-12-2024 BAKU/ AKTAU: Dozens of people have survived a crash involving a plane carrying 69 people in Kazakhstan, local officials say. Kazakh authorities said 38 people were killed in the crash. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 caught fire as it attempted to make an emergency landing near the Kazakh city of …
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26-12-2024 JERUSALEM: The actions of the Israeli military had a “circumstantial influence” on a decision by Hamas militants to kill six hostages in Gaza in August, according to a military investigation published on Tuesday. The recovery in September of the bodies of six Israeli hostages, including American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, triggered …
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26-12-2024 DHAKA/ NEW DELHI: Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and adviser on Tuesday described allegations of corruption involving the family in the 2015 awarding of a $12.65 billion nuclear power contract as “completely bogus” and a “smear campaign”. Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission said on Monday it had launched an …
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26-12-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India is reviewing a decade-old $30 billion program requiring coal-fired power plants to install equipment to cut Sulphur emissions after government-backed studies showed they had little impact on curbing pollution, according to a document reviewed by a media outlet. Nearly 540 power plant …
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26-12-2024 ROME: Christmas revelers around the world donned red and white Santa hats, offered meals to the homeless and lit candles today, as Pope Francis launched observation of the global holiday with a sombre mass in the Vatican. At Saint Peter’s Basilica, Francis used his Christmas Eve mass to urge …
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