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24-01-2025 THE HAGUE: The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he will seek arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Taliban government in Afghanistan over the persecution of women and girls. Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to suspect Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice …

24-01-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instill a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces. Police they brought into …

24-01-2025 JENIN/ WEST BANK: Israel’s deadly raid in Jenin has entered its third day, with its forces issuing a forced evacuation threat to residents of the refugee camp in the city. Hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp started leaving their homes on Thursday. “The Israeli army, using loudspeakers on …

24-01-2025 MOSCOW/ KYIV: The Kremlin says it is ready for a “mutually respectful dialogue” with US President Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine. This comes after Trump warned that Russia will face more sanctions if Putin doesn’t stop what he described as the “ridiculous war”, a message Ukraine says …

24-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Meta, the company which owns social media networks Facebook and Instagram, has denied forcing users to follow official accounts belonging to senior figures in the new Trump administration. Some users of the platforms had complained following Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday that they had “automatically” been made to …

24-01-2025 NEW DELHI: RAJOURI: Officials are investigating the “mysterious” deaths of dozens people most of them children, in the same village in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The deaths, including those of 12 children, have occurred in the remote village of Badhal in Jammu’s Rajouri district since 7 December. The …

24-01-2025 LOS ANGELES: A new, fast-moving wildfire has erupted in Los Angeles County, prompting tens of thousands of people to evacuate a region already reeling from the most destructive fires in its history. The Hughes fire ignited 45 miles (72km) north-west of the city of Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, …

23-01-2025 CANBERRA: Australia is investigating suspicions that funding from outside the country is behind a surge in anti-Semitic crime. Detectives investigating the anti-Semitic attacks across the country have concluded that foreign actors have been paying local criminals to commit them, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday. However, he declined …

23-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Having unexpectedly won two Indian state votes late last year, in big part due to a slew of handouts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is deploying the same playbook in a bid to wrest back Delhi for the first time in nearly three decades next …

23-01-2025 BEIJING/ MOSCOW: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had a video call hours after Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, pledging to bring bilateral ties to “greater heights”, according to state media on both sides. Calling Xi a “dear friend”, Putin said Russia and …