27-09-2025 LONDON: Global debt hit a record high of $337.7 trillion at the end of the second quarter, driven by easing global financial conditions, a softer US dollar and a more accommodative stance from major central banks, a quarterly report showed on Thursday. The Institute of International Finance, a financial …
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27-09-2025 ZHUHAI/ HONG KONG: Hong Kong and several coastal cities in China’s southern Guangdong province reopened businesses, transportation services and schools on Thursday after the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year lashed the region. Ragasa brought the densely populated city to a standstill from Tuesday afternoon, after sweeping through …
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27-09-2025 SRINAGAR: Security forces patrolled the streets on Thursday in India’s Himalayan region of Ladakh, where curfew was clamped in some areas a day after four people were killed in violent protests demanding statehood for the federal territory and job quotas. Television images showed troop patrols amid shops and businesses …
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27-09-2025 JAKARTA: More than 1,000 children have fallen ill from free school lunches in Indonesia this week, according to authorities, the latest in a string of mass food poisoning events linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s multi-billion-dollar nutritious meals program. Yuyun Sarihotima, head of West Java’s Cipongkor Community Health Center, told …
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27-09-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Donald Trump has demanded an investigation into what he called a “triple sabotage” during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. In a post on social media, the US president referred to an escalator abruptly stopping as he and First Lady Melania Trump …
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27-09-2025 TRIPOLI/ PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The Paris criminal court acquitted him of all …
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27-09-2025 NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: An Indian court on Wednesday ruled there was no merit in X’s legal challenge to quash the country’s content removal mechanism the social media site had equated with censorship, saying the platform had a duty of accountability and must follow local laws. X-owner Elon Musk, a …
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26-09-2025 PARIS: French unions will hold another day of strike and protests on October 2 to put pressure on new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu over their demands to scrap his predecessor’s austerity fiscal program, union leaders said. Union leaders who met with Lecornu on Wednesday said they were not satisfied …
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26-09-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Iran has no intention to build nuclear weapons, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, just days before international sanctions could be reimposed on his country over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. “I hereby declare once more before this assembly that Iran has never sought …
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26-09-2025 BEIJING: Typhoon Ragasa has made landfall in southern China, where nearly two million people have been evacuated in preparation for its arrival. It comes after authorities said at least 17 people had been killed and more missing in Taiwan after a lake burst on Tuesday, causing severe flooding in …
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