24-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to respond to a plea seeking an independent investigation into the Air India plane crash on June 12 that killed 260 people. The top court was responding to a public interest litigation filed by NGO Safety Matters …
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24-09-2025 TEHRAN: Hardline lawmakers in Iran have once again demanded the country start building a nuclear bomb as Western powers are days away from reimposing United Nations sanctions amid concerns war could restart with Israel. Led by a lawmaker from the ultraconservative holy Shia city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, …
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24-09-2025 KABUL: The Taliban government has rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to regain control of Bagram Air Base, which the United States abandoned to the Afghan government during its military withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country four years ago. The United States left the country in a hasty exit that …
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24-09-2025 PARIS: On an early September morning, a pig’s head, covered in blood, was discovered at the doorstep of the Javel mosque in the heart of Paris. On it, a name had been scrawled in blue ink: Macron. A couple of kilometers (about a mile) from the Eiffel Tower, the …
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24-09-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: After taking multiple economic hits in his household, Gurvinder Singh, a 47-year-old farmer in Gurdaspur, in India’s Punjab state, took a million-rupee loan ($11,000) from a private lender to marry off his eldest daughter. He saved a portion of that and used it …
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23-09-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened “bad things” would happen to Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it. “If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to …
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23-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces have killed 91 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, according to medics, including family members of a prominent doctor and four people on board a truck fleeing northern Gaza City. The killings on Saturday came as Israeli forces continue to press on with their …
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23-09-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The warning from the Supreme National Security Council came on Saturday, a day after the United Nations Security …
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23-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Imposing a new $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications could disrupt the global operations of Indian technology services companies that deploy skilled professionals to the United States, India’s IT industry body Nasscom said on Saturday. The White House announced the new fee on Friday, …
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23-09-2025 LONDON: Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce the UK’s recognition of a Palestinian state in a statement on Sunday afternoon. The prime minister said in July that the UK would shift its position unless Israel met several conditions, including agreeing to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and …
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