12-01-2025 GAZA/ SANA’A: Israel’s military said it attacked sites in Yemen controlled by Houthi fighters, including a power station near the capital Sanaa, and the ports of Hodeidah and Ras Isa. Several people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon’s south with Israel’s military saying later that …
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12-01-2025 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s new central bank governor Sanjay Malhotra has initiated a review of the Reserve Bank of India’s inflation and growth forecasting tools to minimize projection errors, four sources said. Malhotra, who took charge last month, is asking the RBI’s internal teams to include new datasets, analysis …
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12-01-2025 WASHINGTON: The US has announced an increased $25m (£20.4m) reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on the day he was sworn in for a third six-year term in office. The inauguration ceremony was overshadowed by recrimination from the international community and Venezuelan opposition …
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12-01-2025 LONDON: The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service, one of the main global data providers, said on Friday that 2024 was the …
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11-01-2025 CARACAS: Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was freed on Thursday, her Vente Venezuela movement said, shortly after she was detained amid gunshots while leaving a protest in eastern Caracas. Opposition demonstrations took place throughout the country in an eleventh-hour effort to put pressure on President Nicolas Maduro ahead …
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11-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Global alcohol companies such as Diageo, Pernod Ricard and Carlsberg are demanding unpaid dues of about $466 million from India’s Telangana state, where Heineken suspended supplies this week in an unprecedented move, three industry sources said. India is the world’s eighth-biggest alcohol market by volume, …
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11-01-2025 BEIJING: The death of a teenage boy sparked violent protests in a city in north-west China, the BBC has confirmed through verified video. In the videos shared on social media, protesters can be seen hurling objects at police and officers beating some demonstrators in Pucheng in Shaanxi province. Authorities …
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11-01-2025 WASHINGTON/ GAZA STRIP/ BEIRUT: Amnesty International has condemned the US House of Representatives for voting to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials over issuing of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over alleged war crimes in Gaza. Israeli forces killed an estimated 490 Palestinians in the first nine …
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11-01-2025 N’DJAMENA, CHAD: Chad’s capital city is still smarting after deadly gun battles erupted on Wednesday night between security forces and more than a dozen armed fighters who brazenly stormed the presidential palace. At least 19 people were killed. Businesses and schools opened as usual on Thursday, and most people …
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11-01-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) in retaliation for its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Legislators in the lower chamber of the US …
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