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18-10-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has declined an appeal to legalize same-sex marriages in a blow for LGBTQ rights in the world’s most populous country. The top court announced the ruling on Tuesday after hearing arguments in April and May, with three of five justices finding that …

18-10-2023 GAZA CITY: Freelance journalist Rakan Abdelrahman works out of a cafe, wearing his vest marked “press”, ready to rush out if he needs to as he reports on Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip but Abdelrahman, whose work has appeared in Middle East Eye and The National, is not …

18-10-2023 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that President Joe Biden is set to pay a solidarity visit to Israel, soon after revealing that Tel Aviv agreed to devise a plan for providing humanitarian aid to Gaza’s civilians. During the visit, the top US diplomat said …

18-10-2023 TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign minister warned on Monday that a regional network of militias known in parts of the Middle East as the “axis of resistance” would open “multiple fronts” against Israel if its attacks continued to kill civilians in Gaza. “Time is running out very fast,” the official, Hossein …

18-10-2023 LONDON: Pro-Khalistan advocacy group, Sikh for Justice (SFJ), has announced a $21,000 donation to aid those who have been affected by the Israeli bombing in Gaza. The donation has been sent to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees by the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara …

18-10-2023 GAZA: Hamas, the Palestinian resistance group, has indicated its readiness to use Israeli captives, kidnapped during an attack on southern Israeli areas, as leverage to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Hamas, which has long demanded the release of around 6,000 Palestinians detained in Israeli …

17-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ALLAHABAD: A court in India has acquitted two men who spent years on death row for the rape and murder of 19 women and children in 2005. Surinder Koli and his businessman employer Moninder Singh Pandher were convicted in 2009 in a gruesome …

17-10-2023 JERUSALEM: Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has said that Israel has “no interest in war” on its northern front and will prefer to maintain the current situation along the border with Lebanon. This statement comes on Sunday in response to recent sporadic cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, raising …

17-10-2023 SPRINGFIELD: An innocent Palestinian-American boy was killed and his mother was injured after they were stabbed by their landlord in the state of Illinois on Saturday morning because they were Muslims. The 71-year-old man named Joseph Czuba has been charged with murder and hate crimes after allegedly stabbing a …

17-10-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, in a telephone conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, insisted that Hamas is not fighting for the Palestinian cause, saying that the US is working with regional partners to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict. The telephonic talks came as Israel’s brutality continues in …