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04-12-2024 GAZA STRIP: The beaches of Gaza are no longer for day trips. Tens of thousands of people now have to live on the coastline, forced to leave their homes during the war. In recent days they have come under a new kind of assault: from winter seas battering their …

04-12-2024 NEW DELHI/ ALLAHABAD: More than two years after the Supreme Court granted bail and ordered “immediate release” of Mohammed Zubair from prison, the leading Indian fact-checker and journalist is once again back in court. On Tuesday, the Allahabad high court briefly heard his petition in a fresh case as …

04-12-2024 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: For the first time in seven years, Perry Kouroumblis is expected to set foot on Australian soil on Tuesday night in what Melbourne detectives hope will be a major milestone in a notorious murder case that has plagued them for nearly five decades. When Kouroumblis left …

04-12-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel said it struck targets in Lebanon on Monday evening after vowing to retaliate for an attack by Hezbollah on a military post, with both sides accusing each other of violating last week’s ceasefire. At least nine people were killed by Israeli strikes on two southern Lebanese …

04-12-2024 HANOI: Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against her death sentence for masterminding the world’s biggest bank fraud. The 68-year-old is now in a race for her life because the law in Vietnam states that if she can pay back 75% of what she took, …

03-12-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing for two criminal cases, despite previously ruling it out. In a statement, the president said his son had been “singled out” and called his cases “a miscarriage of justice”. Hunter Biden …

03-12-2024 TBILISI: Georgia has seen a fourth night of street demonstrations and a string of public resignations, triggered by the ruling party’s decision to suspend a push to start talks on joining the European Union. As tens of thousands of Georgians headed back to the streets of several cities, Prime …

03-12-2024 JERUSALEM: Palestinian militant group Hamas released a video of an Israeli-American hostage on Saturday, in which he pleads for US President-elect Donald Trump to secure his release. Yael Alexander, the mother of hostage Edan Alexander, said she was shaken by the 3-1/2-minute video, which showed the 20-year-old captive looking …

03-12-2024 DHAKA/ NEW DELHI: Bangladesh wants to sharply lower prices under a power purchase deal with India’s embattled Adani Group unless it is cancelled by a court, which has called for an investigation into the 25-year deal, its de facto energy minister told Reuters on Sunday. Adani Group founder Gautam …

03-12-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: The UN agency providing aid to Palestinians has said it is suspending deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza because of security concerns. The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, said two recent convoys had been looted by armed gangs near the Kerem Shalom …