02-05-2025 DAMASCUS: At least 16 civilians and security officials have been killed in clashes in a town near Damascus, Syria’s interior ministry reported, the second consecutive day of fighting in Druze-majority areas around Syria’s capital. Reports on Wednesday said fighting had started overnight in the town of Ashrafiah Sahnaya, south-west …
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02-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the “new normal”. Temperatures in the region typically climb …
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02-05-2025 MELBOURNE: A fatal family lunch in regional Victoria is at the centre of a high-profile murder trial that is under way in the state’s Supreme Court. Erin Patterson is accused of murdering her estranged husband Simon Patterson’s parents, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s sister and Simon’s aunt, Heather …
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02-05-2025 JERUSALEM: The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned that rapidly spreading wildfires near Jerusalem could reach the city, as he declared the situation a “national emergency”. Thick smoke billowed above highways near Jerusalem on Wednesday as firefighters rushed to control wildfires that have injured several people and prompted …
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02-05-2025 WASHINGTON/ KYIV: Ukraine and the US on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by US President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine’s reconstruction. The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes …
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01-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India shut its airspace to Pakistani airlines on Wednesday, the government said, days after its nuclear-armed neighbor banned Indian airlines from flying over its territory following the killing of 26 men in an attack on tourists in Kashmir. The ban will last from April 30 …
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01-05-2025 GAZA STRIP/ THE HAGUE: Residents of Nuseirat in central Gaza describe an “earthquake” as an Israeli attack on a building killed at least eight people. At least 35 have been killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry says. Day three of International Court of Justice …
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01-05-2025 NEW YORK: A United States judge has ordered the release of Columbia University student and pro-Palestine protestors Mohsen Mahdawi as a case challenging his deportation proceeds. In Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday, US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford ruled Mahdawi could leave the Northwest State Correctional Facility, where he had been …
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01-05-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s information minister says that the country has ‘credible intelligence’ that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours. Attaullah Tarar’s comments come after India accused Pakistan of supporting militants behind an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists …
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01-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has condemned the arrest of a prominent local journalist by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Ali al-Samoudi, who has worked extensively with Western media was detained during a raid on his son’s home in the northern city of Jenin early …
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