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26-12-2024 NEW YORK: American Airlines has resumed flights after suspending its services for around an hour on Tuesday due to a technical issue that impacted the systems needed to release its planes. The nationwide halt was cancelled just before 13:00 GMT, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The disruption …

26-12-2024 BRASILIA: There are fears of water contamination after a bridge collapsed in northern Brazil at the weekend, sending Lorries carrying thousands of litres of pesticides and sulphuric acid into the river below. Four people are known to have died, and more than 10 are missing after the central span …

26-12-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: At least two journalists and a police officer were killed Tuesday after armed gangs opened fire on them inside an old military hospital in Haiti’s capital. The attack also left at least seven journalists and two police officers injured with gunshot wounds. The injured were being treated at …

26-12-2024 COPENHAGEN: The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was a “double digit billion amount” in krone, or at least $1.5bn …

Bureau Report + Agencies PARACHINAR/ ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Thousands of Shia Muslims including Ismailis and other minorities belong with Hindu, Christian, Baha’i, Sikh, Parsi and other non-Muslims have been either murdered, injured, kidnapped and missed forcibly in Pakistan during last four decades but neither the law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) even could …

25-12-2024 BETHLEHEM/ GAZA STRIP: The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has good reason to consider itself the capital of Christmas but this year it does not feel like it. There are very few visitors at what is typically a peak time. There are not the usual …

25-12-2024 UNITED NATIONS: It’s a simple but brutal equation: The number of people going hungry or otherwise struggling around the world is rising, while the amount of money the world’s wealthiest nations are contributing toward helping them is dropping. The result: The United Nations says that, at best, it will …

25-12-2024 DHAKA: Bangladesh has told neighbor India that it wants former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to New Delhi in August, back in the country for “judicial process”, the acting head of the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Ties between the South Asian neighbors, who have strong trade …

25-12-2024 VICTORIA: Hong Kong police have offered rewards of HK$1m (£103,000; $129,000) for information leading to the arrests of six pro-democracy activists living in the UK and Canada. Among them is Tony Chung, the former leader of a pro-independence group who fled to the UK last year. The group which …

25-12-2024 COLOMBIA/ BOGOTÁ: SPAIN: One of the founders of the Medellin drug cartel has returned to Colombia after serving more than 20 years in jail in the US for drug trafficking. Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, now 67 years old, was deported by the US government and landed in Bogota on Monday …