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02-01-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ODISHA: Ajay Rout is an Indigenous farmer in a remote village in a southern district of India’s Odisha state. The village is surrounded by forest and hills, with the nearest market 10km (6.2 miles) away. The 34-year-old grows sweetcorn and vegetables on his …

02-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces conduct raids in the occupied West Bank as the bombardment of Gaza continues on New Year’s Day, with at least 17 Palestinians killed in northern Jabalia and the central Bureij refugee camp. Days of heavy rain have flooded hundreds of makeshift shelters across the Strip, …

02-01-2025 WASHINGTON: The FBI says it has discovered more than 150 bombs during a raid on a farm in Virginia thought to be the largest such cache seized by the law-enforcement agency in its history. Brad Spafford was arrested on 17 December in Isle of Wight County, 180 miles (290km) …

02-01-2025 YAMOUSSOUKRO: Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military influence of the former colonial power in the region. In an end-of-year address, Ivory Coast’s President, Alassane Ouattara, said the move was a reflection of the modernization of the country’s …

02-01-2025 NEW YORK: The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has sparked speculation after changing his name on his social media platform X to “Kekius Maximus”. The tech mogul and close confidant of US President-Elect Donald Trump offered no immediate explanation for the name or his new profile image which depicts …

01-01-2025 WELLINGTON: New Year celebrations reach all of the Americas after Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa all mark the start of 2025. Parts of Alaska, all of Hawaii and island nations in the South Pacific will be the last to ring in the New Year. In the UK a dazzling …

01-01-2025 BEIJING: Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to steal unclassified documents from United States Treasury workstations earlier this month, the US Treasury Department has said. The department said on Monday that the hackers were able to compromise a third-party cybersecurity service provider and gain access to the documents in what …

01-01-2025 United States President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed the continued leadership of Mike Johnson in the House of Representatives, in an apparent attempt to limit Republican discord in the New Year. In a post to his online platform Truth Social on Monday, Trump appealed to his Make America Great Again …

01-01-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s new rulers have installed some foreign fighters including Uyghurs, a Jordanian and a Turk in the country’s armed forces as Damascus tries to shape a patchwork of rebel groups into a professional military, two Syrian sources said. The move to give official roles, including senior ones, to …

01-01-2025 BERLIN: Air taxi start-up Volocopter GmbH filed for insolvency proceedings on Monday, citing its inability to raise new funds to maintain regular operations. The Mercedes-Benz, opens new tab and Honeywell, opens new tab-backed company plans to continue business operations during the insolvency proceedings while seeking additional funding. “Despite recent …