08-12-2023 KHARTOUM/ DUBAI: Saudi and US-brokered talks aimed at halting fighting between Sudan’s warring parties have faltered again, and the country’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have pressed on with military campaigns that have caused a major humanitarian crisis. The lack of progress at the talks in Jeddah dashed …
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08-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HYDERABAD: India’s health ministry has ordered a probe into Apollo Hospital Delhi, part of largest private hospital chain Apollo Hospitals (APLH.NS), after media reports linked it to the illegal sale by Myanmar nationals of their kidneys for organ transplants. The National Organ and …
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08-12-2023 WASHINGTON: Palestinian rights advocates are denouncing a congressional resolution that equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, calling it a “dangerous” measure that aims to curb free speech and distract from the war in Gaza. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed the measure on Tuesday in a 311-14 vote, with 92 Democratic …
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08-12-2023 LONDON: The Sikh Federation UK has called upon Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to come clean on the serious risks posed by the Indian state agents to Sikh activists in the country The calls grew amid a judge-led inquiry into the mysterious death of pro-Khalistan activist Avtar Singh Khanda on …
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08-12-2023 DUBAI/ COPENHAGEN: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has extradited British trader Sanjay Shah to Denmark over tax fraud charges worth £1.46bn, his lawyers say. Shah, who lives in Dubai, is accused of participating in fraudulent share trading schemes. He was arrested by Dubai police last year following the Danish …
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08-12-2023 GAZA CITY: The entrepreneurs of Gaza, a close-knit group who worked hand in hand to improve new graduates’ prospects, are reeling from the relentless killing of their colleagues by Israel as it bombards the blockaded Gaza Strip. Mohammed Sharif Yousef, an entrepreneurship consultant at the United Nations Industrial Development …
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07-12-2023 BRUSSELS/ LONDON: This year will be the hottest in recorded history after an “extraordinary” November became the sixth record-breaking month in a row, Europe´s climate monitor said Wednesday, piling pressure on the COP28 talks to act on climate change. Last month smashed the previous November heat record, pushing 2023´s …
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07-12-2023 PARIS: France raised the risk level of bird flu to ‘high’ from ‘moderate’ on Tuesday after new cases of the disease were detected, forcing poultry farms to keep birds indoors to stem the spread of the highly contagious virus. The decision by the agriculture ministry was published in the …
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07-12-2023 AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Tuesday the world should condemn any attempt by Israel to create conditions that would forcibly displace Palestinians within the war-devastated Gaza Strip or outside its borders. In remarks carried by state media after a meeting with the Cypriot president in Amman, the monarch …
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07-12-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BHUBANESWAR: Cyclone Michaung barrelled into the southern Indian coast on Tuesday with intense winds, its arrival preceded by torrential rains and flooding that killed at least 13 people, as officials assessed the damage. Tall waves crashed into southern coastal towns over the last …
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