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12-05-2024 BEIJING: China’s car exports surged to a record high in April, data showed on Friday, as domestic sales slipped 5.8% from a year earlier amid intensifying price competition and consumers’ caution about spending on big items during a shaky economic recovery. Car exports jumped 38% year-on-year to 417,000 units …

12-05-2024 BERLIN: Hundreds of climate protesters have clashed with police in Germany after attempting to storm the Tesla factory near Berlin. Several people were injured, including three police officers, during Friday’s demonstration against the proposed expansion of the electric car giant’s only European plant. Police made several arrests and prevented …

12-05-2024 PRETORIA: South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah as part of additional emergency measures over the war in Gaza, the United Nations’ top court said. In the ongoing case brought by South Africa, which accuses Israel of acts of …

12-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: In the lead-up to India’s general election, Narendra Modi was expected to frame it as a referendum on his decade as prime minister. He was expected to boast about achievements like generous welfare programs and spaceflights. He was to reaffirm that the new …

12-05-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly has enhanced Palestine’s rights within the organization and called for it to be accepted as a member. Palestine has had non-member observer state status since 2012, which allows some rights short of a full member. Membership can only be decided upon by …

12-05-2024 KABUL: The UN said the death toll due to floods caused by heavy seasonal rains has crossed 200. Flash floods that have ripped through northern Afghanistan left more than 200 people dead in a single province, the United Nations said on Saturday. More than 200 people were killed and …

12-05-2024 WASHINGTON: The Biden administration believes that Israel has most likely violated international standards in failing to protect civilians in Gaza but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of military aid, the State Department told Congress on Friday. In the administration’s most detailed assessment of Israel’s …

11-05-2024 TEHRAN: Iranians are voting in a run-off for the remaining seats in Parliament after conservative candidates dominated the elections in March. Shortly after polling stations opened on Friday, state TV showed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casting his vote. Khamenei, who has the final say in important matters of …

11-05-2024 MANILA: The Philippines’ national security adviser called on Friday for Chinese diplomats to be expelled over an alleged leak of a phone conversation with a Filipino admiral in a significant escalation of a bitter row over the South China Sea. China’s embassy in Manila had orchestrated “repeated acts of …

11-05-2024 ABUJA: Nigeria’s Senate on Thursday proposed significantly toughening penalties for drug trafficking, making the death penalty the new maximum sentence through a law amendment. The amendment, which is not yet law, replaces life imprisonment, which was previously the harshest punishment. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country of more than 200 …