10-03-2024 ANKARA: A Turkish court on Friday arrested six people, including five former police officers, on charges of spying for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Unauthorized firearms, drugs, digital materials, documents, surveillance equipment, radios and a sum of money in various currencies were seized during the operation in which police …
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10-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: India began deporting the first group of Myanmar refugees who sought shelter there after a military coup in 2021 and plans to send back more in the coming days, weeks after saying it would end a visa-free border policy with Myanmar. Thousands …
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10-03-2024 PYONGYANG: Tightened border controls introduced to curb COVID-19 are still strangling North Korea’s economic activity and informal trade networks more than 18 months after leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over the pandemic, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. North Korea was one of the first countries to act …
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10-03-2024 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran has condemned a report by United Nations experts who concluded the Islamic republic’s violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations, with many amounting to crimes against humanity. The report was built on “baseless …
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10-03-2024 STOCKHOLM/ OTTAWA/ GAZA CITY: Sweden and Canada have said they will resume aid payments to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. They were among 16 countries that paused funds after Israel accused at least 12 UNRWA staff of involvement in the 7 October attack by Hamas. The UN …
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10-03-2024 GRIFFITH: Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and tens of millions more must be pulled up to rein in overproduction that has crushed grape prices and threatens the livelihoods of growers and wine makers. Falling consumption of wine worldwide has hit Australia particularly hard as demand shrinks …
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09-03-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ WASHINGTON: A maritime corridor to Gaza could begin operating this weekend to boost aid to the territory, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says. It comes a day after President Biden said the US planned to build a temporary port in Gaza. The UN says a …
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09-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: From transporting voting machines on camelback to remote corners of its vast western desert to bolstering control rooms for monitoring malicious deep-fakes, India is preparing to run the world’s largest election due by May. More than 960 million Indians are registered to vote …
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09-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The families of seven Israeli hostages being held in Gaza have called for their release and safe return, at a press conference in London. The father of a 19-year-old being held said “all suffering” would end “on both sides” if the hostages came home. The families …
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09-03-2024 OTTAWA: Canadian police are describing the deaths of members of a Sri Lankan family, including four young children, in Ottawa as a “mass killing”. Police say the six victims were newcomers to Canada, and the youngest was less than three months old. A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka who …
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