10-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India is the world’s second-largest producer of shrimp, predominantly for export after Ecuador. In the financial year ending in March 2025, it sent $5bn of frozen shrimp globally, with the US accounting for about 48 percent of its sales. It produces two commercial varieties of …
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10-11-2025 By SJA Jafri KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have blamed Pakistan for a lack of results after mediated talks by Qatar and Turkiye in Istanbul, but have insisted a previously agreed ceasefire will hold despite recent clashes between the two neighboring countries. The end of the talks on Friday without …
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10-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israel’s war on Gaza has not only razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, displaced families multiple times and decimated medical facilities, but also poisoned the very ground and water on which Palestinians depend. Four weeks into a fragile ceasefire, which Israel has violated daily, the scale of …
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09-11-2025 MANIOLA/ HANOI: Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 188 people in the Philippines and five in Vietnam, according to the latest figures from the two countries. The storm is now headed west to Cambodia and Laos after it barreled through central Vietnam on Thursday with winds of up to …
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09-11-2025 BEIJING: China’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has entered service days after a grand commissioning ceremony overseen by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, state media said. The Fujian, the country’s third warship, is equipped with electromagnetic catapults which will allow planes to be launched at higher speeds. Its launch …
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09-11-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Negotiations are under way to allow about 150 Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels in southern Gaza behind Israel’s “yellow line” to hand over their weapons and walk free. President Donald Trump says he expects a US-coordinated international stabilization force to be on the ground in Gaza …
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09-11-2025 KABUL: Survivors of a powerful earthquake that demolished homes in Afghanistan are now struggling to find shelter as they contend with heavy rainfall and the looming winter cold. Their concerns are shared by those who survived an even more devastating earthquake two months earlier. The latest magnitude 6.3 tremor …
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09-11-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has said he expects a US-coordinated international stabilization force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon” as part of his post-war plan for the enclave, which is still suffering a full-blown humanitarian crisis amid continued Israeli bombing. “It’s going to be …
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09-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Aircraft movement at Delhi airport was hampered on Friday because its Air Traffic Control system suffered a technical problem, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said after several flights were disrupted at one of the world’s busiest airports. Top airlines IndiGo, Air India and Spicejet …
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09-11-2025 KAMPALA: Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have confirmed war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, nearly two decades after the court first issued a warrant for his arrest. Kony, who remains at large, faces 39 charges, including murder, sexual enslavement and …
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