16-06-2024 CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Australia on Saturday, saying relations were “back on track” as he started the first visit by a Chinese premier to the major trading partner in seven years. Australia is “uniquely positioned to connect the West and the East” and stands as …
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16-06-2024 SINGAPORE CITY: Beaches on Singapore’s resort island and wealthy expat haven of Sentosa were closed after an oil spill at a nearby port on Friday spread to its waters. Sentosa Development Corp., which manages the island, was alerted on Friday night to “instances of oil spillage in the sea …
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16-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AYODHYA/ VARANASI: A seminal moment in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unsuccessful campaign to retain his parliamentary majority occurred days before India’s marathon election began in April. Speaking in the constituency that includes the Hindu temple town of Ayodhya, lawmaker Lallu Singh said that …
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16-06-2024 ZURICH: One of Switzerland’s leading art museums says it will remove five paintings from one of its exhibitions while it investigates whether they were looted by the Nazis. The works, part of a collection at the Kunsthaus Zurich museum are by some of the world’s most acclaimed artists, including …
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16-06-2024 NEW YORK/ HOUSTON: Blood-sugar monitoring devices could soon be on the arms of millions of Americans after regulators cleared two new devices for use without a prescription. Is it a way to improve our health? Or is the data just another distraction? In the middle of the night last …
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16-06-2024 KHARTOUM: Mohanad el-Balal is one of many Sudanese civilians doing everything they can to ward off a devastating famine and there is one man whose photograph he will never forget. Sadiq, a middle-aged father, grips the arms of his wheelchair tightly to keep himself upright, his painfully thin legs …
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16-06-2024 NAIROBI: A Kenyan magistrate who was shot by a senior police officer earlier this week has died, according to the country’s chief justice. Justice Martha K Koome wrote on X, that Makadara Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti had “lost the fight” against her “extensive injuries”. Ms Kivuti was shot by …
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16-06-2024 PRETORIA: South Africa’s parliament has re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the country’s president following a landmark coalition deal between the governing African National Congress (ANC) and opposition parties. The new government of national unity combines Ramaphosa’s ANC, the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA) and smaller parties. In his victory speech, Ramaphosa …
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15-06-2024 MAKKAH: More than 1.5 million Muslim pilgrims have gathered in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca for the start of Hajj, taking place this year against the harrowing backdrop of Israel’s continued onslaught on the Gaza Strip. The annual pilgrimage began on Friday with crowds of robed worshippers circling the Kaaba, the …
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15-06-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council has demanded that Sudanese paramilitary forces call off their eight-week siege of el-Fasher, a city in the Darfur region where fighting has sparked fears of a possible genocide. Sudan’s army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a …
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