05-06-2024 LONDON: A British bank that escaped prosecution for money laundering carried out billions of dollars of transactions for funders of terrorist groups, US court papers allege. Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s largest banks, avoided prosecution by the US Department of Justice after Lord Cameron’s government intervened on its …
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05-06-2024 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is expected to issue a sweeping new executive order aimed at curbing migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border as early as Tuesday. Under the planned order, US officials could swiftly deport migrants who enter the US illegally without processing their asylum requests once a daily …
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05-06-2024 GAZA CITY: For the leaders of both Hamas and Israel, ending the war in Gaza has become a deadly game of survival. The terms on which the war finally ends could largely determine their political future and their grip on power. For Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, even his physical …
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04-06-2024 CAIRO/ RAFAH: The Rafah border crossing critical to aid deliveries into Gaza from Egypt cannot operate again unless Israel relinquishes control and hands it back to Palestinians on the Gaza side, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday. Last month, Israel seized Gaza’s entire border with Egypt including …
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04-06-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Roughly a day since joining TikTok, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had attracted 3 million followers on the short video social media platform that he tried to ban as president on national security grounds. The decision to join the platform could help the former president reach …
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04-06-2024 LONDON/ DUBAI: OPEC+ agreed on Sunday to extend most of its deep oil output cuts well into 2025 as the group seeks to shore up the market amid tepid demand growth, high interest rates and rising rival U.S. production. Brent crude oil prices have been trading near $80 per …
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04-06-2024 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: With the strike of a judge’s gavel in Delaware, Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, will become the first child of a sitting president to be a criminal defendant. Prosecutors allege that the younger Biden, 54, lied about his drug use on application forms when he …
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04-06-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The US has “every expectation” Israel will accept a ceasefire proposal that would begin with a six-week cessation of hostilities in Gaza if Hamas takes the deal, a senior White House official has said. The three-part plan unveiled by President Joe Biden last week would …
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04-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India saw nearly 25,000 cases of suspected heat stroke and 56 more people lost their lives after several heat wave days across the country from March-May, local media reported, citing government data. May has been a particularly bad month for the region, with …
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04-06-2024 BEIJING: China has accused the UK’s intelligence agency of recruiting a couple as spies, the latest in a string of tit-for-tat allegations between Beijing and the West in recent months. According to China’s Ministry of State Security, the two state department employees were successfully recruited after MI6 operatives exploited …
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