13-01-2025 LOS ANGELES: The death toll from the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area has risen to 16 as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze that threatens the city’s most famous landmarks. New evacuation orders were placed as firefighters raced against time to stop the fires from spreading before potentially …
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13-01-2025 NEW DELHI/ KABUL: The meeting in Dubai between Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Taliban, on Wednesday this week has confirmed India’s intentions to raise its influence with the Afghan leadership, analysts say. India has been gradually upping relations with the …
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13-01-2025 ABUJA: As many as 21 government-backed fighters have been killed in an ambush by bandits in Nigeria’s northwest Katsina State, according to authorities. Katsina police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu told media on Saturday that a convoy of pro-government fighters was returning from paying condolences to the family of a …
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13-01-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA/ ISLAMABAD: Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, after killing dozens on Saturday, including a paramedic and at least eight people in a school-turned-shelter in northern Jabalia. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending senior negotiators, including the heads of Mossad and Shin Bet security agencies, to Qatar …
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13-01-2025 NUUK/ WASHINGTON: There is a general consensus in Greenland that independence will happen eventually, and also that if Greenland votes for it, Denmark will accept and ratify it. However, it is also unlikely that Greenland would vote for independence unless its people are given guarantees that they can keep …
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13-01-2025 KHARTOUM: The army in Sudan says it has captured a key city in the country’s east, one of its biggest gains yet in an almost two-year-long war against rebel forces. Footage on social media showed people celebrating in the streets as army soldiers entered the city of Wad Madani. …
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13-01-2025 SEOUL: Flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the South Korean passenger plane that crashed last month stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, the country’s transport ministry has said. The crash of the Jeju Air flight killed 179 people, making it the deadliest air accident on Korean soil. …
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12-01-2025 NEW YORK: A judge has sentenced US President-elect Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” bringing to an end the first criminal trial of a former US president. The sentence in the hush-money payment case means the incoming president has been spared any penalty, including jail time or a fine, …
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12-01-2025 NUUK: Greenlanders do not want to be American or Danish, the Arctic island’s prime minister has said, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to acquire the territory. Prime Minister Mute Egede, who had insisted the territory was “not for sale” after Trump flagged …
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12-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Justices at the United States Supreme Court have signaled scepticism towards a challenge brought by the video-sharing platform TikTok, as it seeks to overturn a law that would force the app’s sale or ban it by January 19. Friday’s hearing is the latest in a legal saga that …
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