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22-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India on Monday allowed exports of 1 million metric tons of sugar during the current season to September 2025 to help mills of the world’s second biggest producer export surplus stocks and help prop up local prices. The decision could put further downward pressure …

22-01-2025 DODOMA: Tanzania’s president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said at a press conference on Monday that health authorities had confirmed one case of Marburg …

22-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: On the first full day of peace in Gaza on Monday, rescue workers and civilians began to reckon with the sheer scale of the destruction to the Strip. Gaza’s Civil Defence agency, the strip’s main emergency response service, said it feared there were more than 10,000 bodies …

21-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has been sworn in for a second term as president of the United States at noon local time (17:00 GMT) in Washington, DC. Trump used his inaugural address to reiterate his grievances against his political opponents, saying he would “liberate” the country from a “radical and …

21-01-2025 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: The grisly search for an estimated 10,000 bodies buried under the concrete wasteland in Gaza is now under way, the civil defence agency says, with at least 62 of the dead recovered after the ceasefire halted fighting. Celebrations in the occupied West Bank as 90 Palestinian …

21-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: A court in India has sentenced a man to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor, in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and protests. The judge rejected demands for the death penalty but said that Sanjay Roy, a …

21-01-2025 BEIJING: China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the deadliest attack in the country for a decade. Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured dozens more when he drove his car into people exercising …

21-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: After 15 months of war that began with a brutal attack on Israel by Hamas and ended with much of the Gaza Strip levelled by Israel, a ceasefire came into effect on Sunday that saw three women hostages released from Gaza and 90 Palestinians freed from Israeli …

21-01-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has said that Donald Trump’s plans to deport illegal migrants from the US would be a “disgrace” if they materialized. Speaking to an Italian TV program from his Vatican residence, Francis said that if the plans went ahead, Trump would make “poor wretches that don’t …

20-01-2025 GAZA STRIP/ JERUSALEM: The first phase of the long-awaited Gaza ceasefire deal has begun after an almost three-hour delay, with Hamas set to release three Israeli hostages later on Sunday. The ceasefire was due to start at 08:30 (06:30 GMT), but Israel said Hamas had not delivered the names …