05-10-2023 LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ended long-running speculation Wednesday by announcing he was scrapping part of a massive high-speed rail scheme, during a keynote speech closing his ruling Conservatives’ annual conference. His much-anticipated address in northwest England effectively fired the starting gun on Britain’s next general election campaign, with …
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05-10-2023 NEW DELHI/ GANGTOK: A cloudburst Wednesday triggered a flash flood in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim, resulting in the disappearance of 23 Indian troops, a defense spokesperson told media. The flood was a result of torrential rain which hit a valley approximately 150 km (93 miles) north of Gangtok, …
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05-10-2023 NEW YORK: The four-time indicted former US President Donald Trump attended Tuesday his fraud case trial on the second day in New York court reiterating his claim that he is under the target of a political witch hunt, weeks after he was found liable in financial malpractices. The criminally …
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04-10-2023 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has suggested he would be open to having the Catholic Church bless same-sex couples. Responding to a group of cardinals who asked him for clarity on the issue, he said any request for a blessing should be treated with “pastoral charity”. “We cannot be judges …
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04-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, conducted raids on Tuesday morning at the homes of several prominent journalists and authors in connection with an investigation into the funding of the news website NewsClick. Despite allegations of receiving illegal funds from China, NewsClick vehemently …
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04-10-2023 BANGKOK: Police in Thailand say they have arrested a teenage suspected gunman after a shooting at an upscale shopping centre in the capital, Bangkok, that emergency services said had killed three people and wounded four others. The Metropolitan Police Detective Department said on its Facebook page on Tuesday that …
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04-10-2023 MADRID: Spanish weather agency said Monday that temperatures were at the highest in the country on the first day of October with further increase likely which is to persist for more than a week, as human-induced climate change continues to exacerbate and threaten human lives throughout the world. According …
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04-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Amid worsening diplomatic ties between India and Canada, New Delhi has asked Ottawa that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, according to a report published in Financial Times on Tuesday. Ties between the two US allies have become seriously strained over …
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04-10-2023 JERUSALEM/ RIYADH: Israeli communications minister is on a landmark official visit to Riyadh amid normalization speculations, following pressure from the US State Department. Israeli Minister Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi landed in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh Monday to participate in a meeting of a UN agency’s Universal Postal Union, as …
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03-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Attending a World Cup is on the wish list of every cricket fan. The opportunity comes once every four years, the wait is long and arduous, it might be expensive but in the end, it’s worth it. Many fans in India had …
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