02-10-2025 Bureau Report BENGALURU/ HYDERABAD: Donald Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown, opens new tab will hasten US firms’ shift of critical work to India, turbocharging the growth of global capability centres (GCCs) that handle operations from finance to research and development, economists and industry insiders say. The world’s fifth-largest economy is …
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02-10-2025 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, an investment company run by the son-in-law of the United States president, and a California-based private equity firm have bought gaming industry giant Electronic Arts (EA) in the largest leveraged buyout in history worth $55bn. Public Investment Fund (PIF), the $1 trillion Saudi …
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02-10-2025 DOHA: Representatives from Turkiye plan to join a meeting of the Gaza mediation team in Doha amid diplomatic movement created after United States President Donald Trump presented a 20-point plan to end the devastating war. “Turkiye now stands as part of the US initiative” and is collaborating closely on …
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02-10-2025 LONDON: How much trouble is Keir Starmer in? How long has the UK prime minister got to turn things around? That those questions are being reasonably asked is sort of extraordinary. Little more than a year ago, in July 2024, Starmer led Labour to a landslide victory. Labour became …
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02-10-2025 GAZA STRIP/ CAIRO: Hamas’s negotiating team is studying US President Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has confirmed. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he agreed to the plan in a news briefing with Trump at the White House, as Israeli …
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01-10-2025 LONDON: A pro-Palestine activist has interrupted the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ speech during the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool to call out the country’s ongoing complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. The protester, later named as Sam P, stood up less than 10 …
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01-10-2025 ANKARA: Turkey has joined Spain, Italy and Greece in monitoring an international flotilla carrying aid for Gaza that was sailing east across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday despite warnings from Israel to stop the mission, flight data show. Flight tracking websites showed that three long-endurance drones originating from Turkey’s …
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01-10-2025 GRAND BLANC: Authorities on Monday were working to determine why an ex-Marine drove his pickup truck into a Michigan church during a Sunday service, opened fire and set the building ablaze, killing at least four people before he died in a shootout with police. Hundreds of worshippers were inside …
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01-10-2025 BEIJING: A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centers in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media. Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal activities, with many receiving lengthy jail sentences. The Ming family worked …
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01-10-2025 MANILA: Typhoon Bualoi has killed at least 11 people and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes in the centre and north of Vietnam, state media reported. Dozens are missing or injured after the typhoon made landfall on Sunday night, flooding roads, washing away bridges and tearing roofs off buildings …
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