06-03-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: A team of United Nations experts reported on Monday that there were “reasonable grounds to believe” sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred at several locations during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants. The team led by UN special envoy for sexual …
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06-03-2024 BANGKOK: Thailand’s top court has acquitted former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in a corruption case during her time in office more than a decade ago. The ruling on Monday is the latest legal success for the influential Shinawatra family. In February, Yingluck’s brother Thaksin, a two-time prime minister and …
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06-03-2024 KHARTOUM: There are few peoples in the world who have been as devoted to achieving democracy as the Sudanese people. Although their quest for democracy has been unrelenting, stable democratic governance has so far eluded Sudan, not least because of foreign pressures. In the latest historic episode of revolutionary …
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06-03-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency’s visits over the weekend to the Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals were the first since early October. In a post on social media, he …
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06-03-2024 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause. The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also overrides challenges brought in other states. Colorado had barred Trump from its Republican primary, …
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06-03-2024 PARIS: France has become the first country in the world to explicitly include the right to abortion in its constitution. Parliamentarians voted to revise the country’s 1958 constitution to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to abort. The overwhelming 780-72 vote saw a standing ovation in the parliament in Versailles when …
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05-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: US Vice-President Kamala Harris says people in Gaza “are starving” and has urged Israel to “significantly increase the flow of aid” there. She said “there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks”, which would “get the (Israeli) hostages out”. Earlier, Israel did …
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05-03-2024 BEIJING: China kicks off its annual parliamentary meetings this week, which investors are watching closely for signals on economic stimulus. Beijing has already broken with tradition, with an announcement Monday that Premier Li Qiang would not hold the usual press conference at this year’s parliamentary meeting, and that such …
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05-03-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican. Media discovered dozens of deep-fakes portraying black people as supporting the former president. Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden’s …
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05-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Authorities on Saturday said that a touring influencer couple, Fernanda and Vicente, were brutally attacked by a gang of assailants while passing through Dumka district in Indian route to Nepal. The couple, known for documenting their travels on Instagram to over 140,000 followers, …
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