28-02-2026 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has approved the first credits to be issued under a carbon market established by the Paris climate accord, aimed at reducing emissions, a mechanism that has faced scrutiny over greenwashing concerns. The UN-run market allows companies and countries to offset their excess emissions by …
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28-02-2026 NEW DELHI/ JERUSALEM: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a two-day visit that both countries have cast as a chance to deepen relations, as regional concerns mount over the risk of military conflict between the United States and Iran. In an address to the …
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28-02-2026 JERUSALEM/ DAMASCUS: Dozens of Israeli military vehicles have staged an incursion into Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province in the occupied Golan Heights, local media reported, in yet another breach of the country’s sovereignty. Al-Ikhbariah TV said on Wednesday that a convoy of 30 vehicles entered the eastern Tel al-Ahmar area …
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28-02-2026 WASHINGTON: Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to appear before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into the network of influence and crime run by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Both depositions are planned to take place in …
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27-02-2026 By SAJ Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson said, hours after Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack on Pakistan in the latest escalation of violence between the neighboring countries that made a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shaky. …
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27-02-2026 NEW YORK: In 2008, after years of allegations from teenage girls who said they had been abused inside the property, Jeffrey Epstein secured what was later described as one of the most extraordinary plea deals in modern US legal history. He pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution …
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27-02-2026 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s criminal investigators arrested the country’s former intelligence chief on Wednesday (Feb 25) in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, including 45 foreigners. Police said retired Major General Suresh Sallay was taken into custody at dawn in a suburb of the capital, …
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27-02-2026 NAYPYIDAW: A military air strike by the Myanmar military in Rakhine state has killed and injured dozens people, local media reported, in the latest civil war carnage weeks after a military-backed governing party election win was dismissed as a “sham” by international observers. Women and children were among those …
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27-02-2026 UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has expressed “deep concern” over escalating violence across war-torn Sudan, including in Darfur and Kordofan states, calling for an immediate end to the fighting. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the UNSC denounced repeated drone attacks against non-combatants, civilian facilities, …
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27-02-2026 HARARE: Zimbabwe has suspended exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrates with immediate effect until further notice. In an announcement on Wednesday, Minister of Mines and Mining Development Polite Kambamura said the move includes all minerals “currently in transit”. “Government expects cooperation of the mining industry on this …
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