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02-12-2024 TBILISI: Georgia’s pro-Western president has said she will stay in post until new parliamentary elections are held, as protests continue over the government’s decision to put EU accession negotiations on hold. Speaking to media, Salome Zourabichvili, who has sided with the opposition, described the current parliament as “illegitimate” after …

01-12-2024 GENEVA: Large groups of women and children are scavenging for food among mounds of trash in parts of the Gaza Strip, a UN official said on Friday following a visit to the Palestinian enclave. Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights office for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, expressed …

01-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s economic growth slowed much more than expected in the third quarter, hampered by weaker expansions in manufacturing and consumption, likely adding pressure on the central bank for interest rate cuts. Gross domestic output, opens new tab in the world’s fifth-biggest economy rose by 5.4% …

01-12-2024 N’DJAMENA: Chad has said it is ending its defence cooperation agreement with former colonial power France, a move that will require French soldiers to leave the Central African country. Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah called France “an essential partner” but said it “must now also consider that Chad has grown …

01-12-2024 GAZA CITY: Almost 100 Palestinians have been reported killed in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza over the past 24 hours, including 75 killed in air strikes on two homes in the north’s Beit Lahiya. Hunger and suffering among Palestinians in Gaza have reached “catastrophic” levels, the besieged territory’s Government …

01-12-2024 STOCKHOLM: Sweden has formally asked China to co-operate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea after a Chinese ship was linked to the incidents. The cables one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany were damaged in Swedish territorial waters …

01-12-2024 NEW YORK: A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week. Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous 2019 work Comedian, a banana duct-taped to a wall at Sotheby’s auction house in …

01-12-2024 TBILISI: Thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of Tbilisi to protest against the government’s decision to suspend accession talks with the European Union. Demonstrators were seen shouting “traitors” and holding photographs of journalists who they say were beaten by police in Thursday night’s protests. For the second …

01-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Rebel forces in Syria have taken control of several neighborhoods in the country’s second-largest city, Aleppo, according to the UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). As of Friday evening, SOHR said rebels were in control of more than half of the city. The move is …

01-12-2024 MONTREAL: Political leaders and press freedom groups on Friday were left shell-shocked after Montreal news outlet La Presse revealed that a hit man had offered $100,000 to have one of its crime reporters assassinated. Convicted killer Frederick Silva, who turned police informant in 2022, had confessed to issuing the …