25-03-2024 KYIV/ MOSCOW: Multiple explosions have hit Kyiv and the whole of Ukraine has been placed on alert as Russia launched a wave of air strikes. The region of Lviv bordering Poland was also targeted and one of the cruise missiles entered Polish airspace, the country’s armed forces said. The …
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25-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ CAIRO: The United States has made a “bridging proposal” for the number of jailed Palestinians to be released by Israel in exchange for every hostage freed by Hamas in any new Gaza truce, an Israeli official briefed on the Qatar-hosted talks said on Saturday. An Israeli delegation led …
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25-03-2024 QUEENSLAND/ MELBOURNE: Outside an Australian community centre, local election candidates make last-ditch efforts to win over people who are filing into the makeshift polling station. Most voters are too pre-occupied trying to dodge the flyer-thrusting politicians to notice a clue that this is not your ordinary campaign for a …
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25-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Famed Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk, on a hunger strike to bring autonomy to the Himalayan region of Ladakh, said on Saturday he was weak as his fast stretches into its 18th day but he would continue for three more days as planned …
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25-03-2024 TEL AVIV: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel risked further global isolation if it went ahead with plans for a ground assault on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Blinken met one to one with Netanyahu during a …
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25-03-2024 TUNIS: The Tunisia public prosecutor detained prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb on Friday on suspicion of insulting a public official, which the journalists union said was aimed at silencing the voices of journalists. The detention of Boughalleb, who has been a critic of President Kais Saied, reinforces activists’ fears that …
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25-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ RAFAH: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has made a renewed call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “It is time to silence the guns,” he said, speaking from the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the enclave. He also called on Israel to give “total, unfettered” access …
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24-03-2024 LONDON: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reached out to the Prince and Princess of Wales following the announcement of Catherine’s cancer diagnosis. Kensington Palace has not commented but the contact is understood to have been made privately. Earlier Prince Harry and Meghan said they wished “health and …
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24-03-2024 NEW DELHI: The Indian navy handed over 35 Somali pirates to the police in Mumbai on Saturday, after 100 days of anti-piracy operations east of the Red Sea, where piracy has resurfaced for the first time in nearly a decade. India, the largest national force in the Gulf of …
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24-03-2024 CANBERRA/ LONDON: Australia is set to provide 4.6 billion Australian dollars ($3bn) to British industry to help support the construction of nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS deal with the United Kingdom and the United States and ensure its new vessels arrive on time. Senior officials from the UK and …
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