11-02-2025 LONDON: A British junior minister was sacked by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday and suspended from the governing Labour Party over WhatsApp messages which the minister said were “badly misjudged”. Andrew Gwynne, who was a health minister, apologized on social media platform X following a report by the …
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11-02-2025 BANGKOK: Five Thai nationals held captive in Gaza for more than a year have returned home after being released last month. Watchara Sriaoun, Pongsak Thaenna, Sathian Suwannakham, Sarusak Rumnao and Bannawat Saethao were hugged by their families after they landed at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport on Sunday morning. “We are …
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11-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ RAIPUR: Indian security forces have killed at least 31 suspected Maoist rebels in the forests of the central state of Chhattisgarh, police said, in its biggest encounter this year. Two security personnel were also killed while two sustained injuries in the gun battle …
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11-02-2025 PRISTINA: Polls have opened in Kosovo’s parliamentary election, seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who has been at odds with his Western allies over relations with neighboring Serbia. Voting began at 7am local time on Sunday, according to the Central Election Commission, as Kosovars headed to …
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10-02-2025 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israeli troops have withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor, a military zone cutting off the north of the Gaza Strip from the south. Hundreds of Palestinians in cars and on carts laden with mattresses and other goods began returning to northern Gaza following the pull-out – often …
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10-02-2025 COLOMBO: An intruding monkey at a Sri Lankan electrical grid sub-station caused a general island-wide blackout on Sunday, government officials said. The power outage, which began around 11:30am (0600 GMT), had yet to be fully restored after three hours. “A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer …
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10-02-2025 BEIRUT: An Israeli air raid has killed six people and wounded two in eastern Lebanon amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that a drone targeted the Shaara area, near the town of Jennata, in the eastern Bekaa region on Saturday. The Israeli …
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10-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s top opposition leader questioned the country’s main election body on Friday over what he said were suspect electoral rolls in the richest Indian state. Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India’s Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s main opponent, alleged that more than 3.9 …
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10-02-2025 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly gave Donald Trump a “golden pager” during their meeting in Washington DC this week, in an apparent reference to Israel’s deadly attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon last year. In photos circulating online, the golden pager can be seen mounted on a piece of wood, …
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10-02-2025 TEHRAN: Iran has said it is ready to negotiate with the United States but not under the “maximum pressure” strategy by Donald Trump. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a statement on Saturday that “the lifting of sanctions requires negotiations, but not within the framework of a ‘maximum …
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