17-11-2023 BRUSSELS/ MOSCOW: Diamonds may be forever, but not when it comes to imports from Russia into the European Union. Russia is the biggest producer of rough diamonds cut from hundreds of mines beneath the Siberian permafrost, where a third of the world’s diamond supply comes from. Now the European …
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17-11-2023 ONTARIO: A Canadian man accused of killing a Muslim family in London, Ontario, wanted to make “all Muslims fearful for their safety”, a jury has heard. Prosecutors said in their closing argument that Nathaniel Veltman had planned to send “a brutal message”. Veltman, 22, faces four first-degree murder charges …
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17-11-2023 WASHINGTON: The US and China have agreed to resume military-to-military communications in an effort to ease rising tensions, President Joe Biden says. “We’re back to direct, open, clear communications,” he said following a rare meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in California on Wednesday. It was the first time …
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16-11-2023 GAZA CITY/ WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden says “not realistic” to expect Israel to stop Gaza war, reiterates claim of Hamas base at al-Shifa Hospital but offers no proof. With the United States, United Kingdom and Russia abstaining, the UN Security Council passes a resolution calling for extended humanitarian …
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16-11-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: The United Nations Security Council called for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses in fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip for a “sufficient number of days” to allow aid access. The 15-member council overcame an impasse, which saw four unsuccessful attempts to …
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16-11-2023 LONDON: The annual pace of price rises is expected to have slowed sharply when the latest official figure for October is released on Wednesday, easing fears that the Bank of England could increase interest rates next month. City economists polled by Reuters have signaled that inflation as measured by …
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16-11-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Eighty (80) people, including convicted criminals considered dangerous, have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention was unconstitutional, the immigration minister said Monday. A member of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim …
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16-11-2023 WASHINGTON: Washington will resume food aid for people across Ethiopia next month, after assistance was paused earlier this year, following implementation of comprehensive reforms, according to a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) statement seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Ethiopia’s food crisis has deepened in recent years as a …
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16-11-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON: Suella Braverman has launched a full-scale attack on her old boss Rishi Sunak, a day after he sacked her as home secretary. In a blistering letter to the prime minister, she said he had repeatedly failed on key policies and …
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16-11-2023 RIYADH: Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. How is it, foreign ministers said to me, …
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