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21-03-2024 ABUJA: The Nigerian government has rejected a media report published last week about a secret program of forced abortions run by the military in the country’s northeast, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said. The Reuters investigation reported that since 2013, a secret military program has involved terminating at least 10,000 …

21-03-2024 LONDON: A second royal photograph issued to the media by Kensington Palace, the office of Prince William and his wife Kate, was digitally altered in eight places, Reuters said on Tuesday after an analysis of the picture by the news organization’s photo editors. The picture, released in April last …

21-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ RAFAH/ WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spurned a plea from Joe Biden to call off a planned ground assault of Rafah, the last refuge in Gaza for more than a million displaced people, where Israel believes Hamas militants are holed up. Netanyahu told lawmakers on Tuesday he …

21-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this summer. In major centres such as India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Bengaluru, home to firms like Google (GOOGL.O), opens …

21-03-2024 KHARTOUM: Civilians caught up in Sudan’s civil war have given graphic accounts to the BBC of rape, ethnic violence and street executions. Our journalists have managed to make it to the front line of the fighting close to the capital, Khartoum. Top UN officials have said the conflict has …

21-03-2024 WASHINGTON/ HOUSTON: The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to enforce one of the toughest immigration laws enacted by any US state in recent memory. The measure allows police to arrest and prosecute those suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexican border. The Biden administration has challenged the law, calling it …

21-03-2024 WASHINGTON/ GAZA CITY: Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by media about conditions in the territory. Blinken called on Israel …

21-03-2024 PARIS: Twenty-eight people have been jailed for up to 18 months for the harassment of an influencer in France’s largest cyberbullying case to date. Judges found the accused guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, spurred on by a campaign by the French rapper Booba against “thieving influencers”. The court in …

20-03-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: The United States has issued its strongest public warning yet to Israel against invading the crowded city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, saying that such a ground operation would deepen the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on …

20-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court ordered the State Bank of India (SBI) (SBI.NS), opens new tab on Monday to submit all the details of so-called electoral bonds issued under an opaque political funding system, just a month before general elections. The further details of the …