23-10-2024 OTTAWA/ MEXICO CITY/ NEW YORK: As Americans prepare to vote for their next president, Canadians and Mexicans are watching on nervously. For some Canadians living next to the US border, politics isn’t a topic often discussed. “You don’t talk politics and you don’t talk religion,” says 85-year-old Ernie, who …
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23-10-2024 JERUSALEM: Seven people have been arrested in occupied East Jerusalem on suspicion of planning attacks for Iran, the Israeli security services say, the second such case in as many days. The Shin Bet domestic security agency and police said in a joint statement that the suspects had planned, “under …
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23-10-2024 PRETORIA: A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, scientists have discovered. The space rock, which was 200 times the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, smashed into Earth when our planet was …
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22-10-2024 COLOMBIA: Environmental leaders from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Colombia to assess historic commitments to halt and reverse the loss of nature. The two-week United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) starting on Monday is a follow-up to the 2022 Montreal meetings where 196 countries signed an ambitious global treaty, …
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22-10-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government has approved new constitutional amendments to give legislators more power in appointing the top judge, a move seen as sidelining the courts that have allegedly favored jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The 26th Constitutional Amendment Bill was passed early …
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22-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: At least 33 Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks throughout the Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources say, including 18 in Jabalia refugee camp as the forced expulsion by troops in the north continues. Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 640 Palestinians have been …
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22-10-2024 MOGADISHU: Alcohol smuggler Guled Diriye is exhausted. He has just returned from his trip transporting contraband from the Ethiopian border. The 29-year-old slumps in his chair inside a colonial-style villa battered by years of fighting in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a city once known as the Pearl of the Indian …
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22-10-2024 AMSTERDAM: More than 100 professional women’s footballers have signed an open letter urging Federation International Football Association (FIFA) to drop the Saudi oil giant Aramco as a sponsor, calling it a “punch in the stomach” to the sport. Earlier this year FIFA announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia’s state-owned …
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22-10-2024 KHARTUM: Millions of people in South Sudan have been affected by floods across much of the country, the UN’s humanitarian organization, Ocha, has said. More than a quarter of those many in the north have been forced from their homes by rising waters. Ocha said the displaced were seeking …
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22-10-2024 NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India’s top diplomat has said. Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two sides have agreed on “disengagement and resolution of issues in these (border) areas that had arisen in …
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