09-09-2024 WASHINGTON/ LONDON: The international world order is “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War”, the heads of the UK and US foreign intelligence services have warned. The chiefs of MI6 and the CIA also said both countries stand together in “resisting an assertive Russia …
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09-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Olympic wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joined the opposition Congress party on Friday, entering politics a year after protesting against the chief of the sport’s governing body in India over alleged sexual harassment. The move came weeks after Phogat’s emotional return …
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09-09-2024 PARIS: More than 100,000 people protested across France on Saturday against the appointment of the centre-right politician Michel Barnier as the new prime minister. His appointment follows an inconclusive election in which the left-wing bloc, the New Popular Front (NPF) won the largest number of seats. The protests were …
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09-09-2024 BERLIN: “If the old parties had done their jobs properly then the AfD would not exist,” Ingolf complains, echoing a common sense that the rest of Germany looks down on so-called “Ossis” in the east. Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) have already won the most votes in regional elections …
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09-09-2024 CITY OF LONDON, KENTUCKY: A manhunt is underway in Kentucky after a number of people were shot along a highway near the city of London on Saturday. The incident began at about 18:00 local time when police responded to a report of vehicles being fired upon near Interstate 75. …
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09-09-2024 The Venezuelan government has said opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has left the country, seeking asylum in Spain. Gonzalez has been in hiding, and a warrant issued for his arrest after the opposition disputed July’s presidential election result in which the government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Nicolas Maduro …
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08-09-2024 HANOI/ HAIPHONG/ BEIJING: Super Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, after tearing through China’s southern island of Hainan where it reportedly killed two people and injured dozens. Yagi, the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024, …
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08-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MANIPUR/ GUWAHATI: Six people, including one civilian, were killed as fresh violence broke out between two warring ethnic communities in the northeast Indian state of Manipur on Saturday, authorities said. The majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis have clashed sporadically since last …
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08-09-2024 NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s sentencing in his Manhattan hush money criminal trial has been postponed until after the November election. Judge Juan Merchan on Friday delayed the sentencing to 26 November, citing “the unique time frame this matter currently finds itself in” among his reasons. Lawyers for Trump, the …
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08-09-2024 JERUSALEM/ JENIN: Israeli forces have withdrawn from Jenin city and its refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after a major nine-day operation there. The area, a stronghold of militants and with a civilian population of about 60,000 was targeted in one of the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) biggest …
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