18-11-2023 GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers found a tunnel shaft used by Hamas militants at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, the army said, while the U.N. voiced concern no aid would be delivered to Palestinians on Friday via the Rafah crossing with Egypt The army released a video it said showed …
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18-11-2023 NEW YORK: Palestinian photojournalist Hosam Salam was fired from the New York Times on 7 October over social media posts supporting Palestinian resistance factions against the Israeli occupation. The freelance journalist was dismissed after a pro-Israeli organization alerted the publication of Salam’s previous Facebook posts in which he had …
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18-11-2023 MADRID: After weeks of haggling, Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez has clinched a vote in parliament to lead Spain for another term as prime minister. He has secured a four-seat majority in the 350-seat chamber, after sealing an amnesty deal for Catalans involved in a failed bid to secede from …
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18-11-2023 GAZA CITY/ OHIO: Israeli strikes continue across Gaza, with the enclave under a communications blackout as the main telecommunications provider ran out of fuel for its generators. Ashraf al-Qudra, the spokesman for the Health Ministry in Gaza, says “thousands of women, children, sick and wounded are in danger of …
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18-11-2023 NEW YORK: A letter penned by Osama bin Laden justifying the 9/11 attacks in 2001 has gone viral on TikTok, with users expressing support for the extremist views expressed in the document, Daily Mail reported. Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, wrote the ‘Letter to America’ …
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18-11-2023 KYIV/ LONDON: New Foreign Secretary David Cameron has made his first working visit to Ukraine, meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. Lord Cameron reiterated the UK’s support for Ukraine, promising moral, diplomatic and “above all military support for… however long it takes”. Zelensky congratulated Cameron on his new post …
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17-11-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KARACHI: US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Pakistan-born lawyer Adeel Mangi to serve on a Federal Appeals Court, reported The Washington Post. If the nomination goes through the Democratic-controlled US Senate, then Mangi, a Harvard and Oxford-trained lawyer, would become the first Muslim …
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17-11-2023 ZOKHAWTHAR: Two days after rebel forces in Myanmar’s Chin state overran the junta’s two military bases close to the border with India, they have taken control of a border crossing point between the two countries across the tiny hilly Indian state of Mizoram. Most of the nearly 5,000 Myanmar …
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17-11-2023 LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would pass an emergency law and warned Britain could quit the European human rights’ convention after the UK’s top judges dealt him a major blow by ruling his scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. After the UK Supreme Court …
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17-11-2023 DOHA/ CAIRO: Qatari mediators on Wednesday sought to negotiate a deal between Hamas and Israel that included the release of around 50 civilian hostages from Gaza in exchange for a three-day ceasefire, an official briefed on the negotiations told media. The deal, under discussion and coordinated with the U.S., …
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