27-01-2024 BAMAKO: Mali’s military rulers have announced the cancellation of a 2015 peace deal with separatist rebels after months of fighting in the West African nation. Military authorities said late on Thursday that the so-called Algiers Accord had ended with “immediate effect” due to other signatories not keeping their commitments …
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27-01-2024 BEIJING/ TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis, or risk harming business relations with Beijing, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter said. The discussions about the attacks and …
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27-01-2024 THE HAGUE: The International Court of Justice issues a series of provisional measures against Israel on the basis that the rights of the Palestinians not to be subject to genocide must be protected before the court can make a final ruling on the merits of the case. The court …
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26-01-2024 KYIV: Ukraine expects to start construction work on four new nuclear power reactors this summer or autumn, Energy Minister German Galushchenko told Reuters on Thursday, as the country seeks to compensate for lost energy capacity due to the war with Russia. Two of the units which include reactors and …
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26-01-2024 KUALA LUMPUR: Hindus in Malaysia have marked the festival of Thaipusam, one of the most important in their religious calendar, displaying their devotion in a mass procession with some piercing their bodies with hooks and skewers. Authorities said they were expecting as many as two million people devotees and …
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26-01-2024 PYANGYONG/ SEOUL: North Korea said it tested its new strategic cruise missile on Wednesday, state media KCNA reported on Thursday, confirming what the South Korean military said the day before. The missile dubbed “Pulhwasal-3-31” is currently under development and the test-firing had no impact on the security of neighboring …
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26-01-2024 BUENOS AIRES: In the biggest show of resistance to date against far-right President Javier Milei, Argentinian workers have taken to the streets for a general strike, bringing swaths of downtown Buenos Aires to a standstill. It was an unprecedented mobilisation. Never before in modern Argentinian history has a mass …
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26-01-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Journalist Amir Mehmood* was getting ready for work when his phone buzzed with a WhatsApp message. As a member of the top management at a private news channel in Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, Mehmood was used to getting non-stop …
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26-01-2024 KIGALI: With shovels and garden hoes, villagers stood this January digging where a house once stood in Rwanda to reveal a mass grave filled with bones victims of the genocide still being found 30 years on. Around 100 volunteers, many wearing face masks and rubber gloves turn over the …
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26-01-2024 GAZA CITY: At least 20 killed and 150 wounded as Israeli tanks fire shells and live rounds at people in northern Gaza City who lined up to receive much-needed humanitarian supplies, health officials say. UN says heavy fighting has “encircled” two hospitals in Khan Younis Nasser and Al-Amal leaving …
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