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11-01-2024 NEW YORK: A fifth and final batch of court documents relating to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been released. Among the 1,400 pages of records are depositions with Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. This last trove shows Epstein refused hundreds of times to answer lawyers’ questions, including …

11-01-2024 WASHINGTON/ RIYADH/ DOHA: Of all the priorities for US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his fourth visit to the Middle East in three months, there is one message above all others that he wants to deliver. His main mission on this trip is to ensure the Israel-Gaza war …

11-01-2024 LONDON/ NEW YORK: The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest on record, driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Nino weather event. Last year was about 1.48C warmer than the long-term average before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels, the EU’s …

10-01-2024 QUITO: Masked gunmen have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened terrified staff. Employees were forced on to the floor during the broadcast by the public television channel TC in the city of Guayaquil before the live feed cut out. The attackers were later seen leaving …

10-01-2024 TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA: A massive storm system is causing widespread chaos across various regions of the United States, unleashing a barrage of extreme weather conditions from tornadoes in the south to blizzards in the north. The forecast, issued by the National Weather Service, has warned residents of potential flash floods, …

10-01-2024 PARIS: Emmanuel Macron has appointed Gabriel Attal, 34, as France’s youngest prime minister, aiming to reinvigorate his presidency with a new government. Attal, currently serving as the education minister, replaces Elisabeth Borne, who resigned after 20 months. This move comes ahead of crucial European Parliament elections in June. Attal’s …

10-01-2024 WASHINGTON: NASA is set to delay its next few missions to the moon under a key program as technical hurdles mount with the various spacecraft it intends to use to get there, according to four people familiar with NASA’s plans. The US space agency is expected to announce the …

10-01-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT/ DAMASCUS: Israel is carrying out an unprecedented wave of deadly strikes in Syria targeting cargo trucks, infrastructure and people involved in Iran’s weapons lifeline to its proxies in the region, six sources with direct knowledge of the matter told media. The sources, including a Syrian military intelligence …

10-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: The Australian government has indicated that it has put on hold a proposal to hold a vote on removing King Charles III as its head of state. It is a longstanding policy of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to hold a referendum on becoming …

10-01-2024 BEIRUT: The Lebanese group Hezbollah says one of its commanders has been killed in a strike in southern Lebanon believed to have been carried out by Israel. Wissam Tawil was reportedly a member of the group’s elite Radwan Force, and one of the most prominent Hezbollah figures to be …