31-12-2023 GAZA CITY: Israeli bombardments have destroyed 70 percent of Gaza homes, says the government’s media office. The Israeli war cabinet will meet to discuss captive-prisoner exchanges as Netanyahu vows to continue the war. US President Joe Biden’s administration again bypasses Congress on weapons sales to Israel. In Gaza, at …
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31-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: India has formally requested that Pakistan extradite the 2008 Mumbai attacks suspect Hafiz Saeed for trial in India, according to New Delhi’s Ministry of External Affairs. “We have conveyed a request along with relevant supporting documents to the government of Pakistan,” ministry …
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31-12-2023 CAPE TOWN/ THE HAGUE: South Africa has filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza after nearly three months of relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 21,500 people and caused widespread destruction in the …
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30-12-2023 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled Feb. 5, 2024 trial in the …
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30-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: India’s blue-chip Nifty 50 (.NSEI) and BSE Sensex (.BSESN) rose around 20% in 2023, their second-best year since 2017 and were among the top-performing stock indexes globally. The rally was driven by sustained domestic mutual fund inflows, return of foreign buying, better-than-expected …
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30-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Australia is bracing for an intense heatwave across its north and west during the New Year’s holiday weekend with temperatures forecast to touch more than 45 degrees Celsius (113°F), while severe thunderstorms were expected to hit the country’s east. The heatwave follows a wild …
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30-12-2023 TEHRAN: Iran has executed three men and one woman who were convicted for their alleged links to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, according to media affiliated with the judiciary. “Four members of a sabotage group related to the Zionist regime…..were hanged this morning” in Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, …
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30-12-2023 MEXICO CITY: Mexican villagers who killed 10 members of the notorious Familia Michoacana criminal gang will not be facing any charges after prosecutors ruled they had acted in self-defence. Prosecutors said that the residents of Texcapilla had come “under constant threat” from the gang, which had tried to extort …
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30-12-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: An estimated 150,000 Palestinians are being forced to flee areas of central Gaza, the UN has said, as Israeli forces advance on refugee camps there. Witnesses and Hamas’s armed wing reported that tanks had reached the eastern outskirts of Bureij camp. Israel’s military recently expanded its …
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30-12-2023 CARACAS/ LONDON: Venezuela has ordered the armed forces to hold military exercises in response to the UK’s decision to send a warship to support neighboring Guyana. Military leaders said 5,600 soldiers would take part in “defensive” exercises on Venezuela’s eastern Caribbean and Atlantic coasts. Earlier this month, Venezuelan voters …
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