03-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The global prices for different varieties of rice dropped on Monday after India and Pakistan made tit-for-tat moves to eliminate price caps and resume rice exports. On Saturday, the Indian government lifted a ban on the export of non-Basmati white rice more …
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03-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP/ BEIRUT: Hezbollah says it attacked and repulsed Israeli troops who infiltrated near the town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon, and “inflicted losses and forced them to retreat”. Israel steps up bombardment of the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of people in separate attacks on shelters and schools, …
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03-10-2024 KHARTOUM: A top Sudanese general has said the army will press on with its offensive despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire in the 17-month civil war. “Peace talks can go on, but the army will not stop for that,” Assistant Commander-in-Chief Lt Gen Ibrahim Gabir told media. He …
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03-10-2024 MEXICO CITY: The passing of the presidential sash every six years is always an important and symbolic occasion in Mexico but on Tuesday, when it was placed over the shoulder of Claudia Sheinbaum, the first woman to hold the highest office in the country, it was truly an historic …
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03-10-2024 BRISBANE: A husband and wife in Australia have been reunited with the long lost footage of their wedding in Scotland after it was found by chance 57 years later. Aileen and Bill Turnbull got married in Aberdeen in 1967 and later emigrated but without the film. The footage was …
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03-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT/ TEHRAN: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran will “pay”, after Iran fired around 180 missiles at Israel on Tuesday. Most of the missiles were intercepted one Palestinian was killed in the West Bank, and a school in central Israel and areas near Tel Aviv were hit. …
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03-10-2024 HOUSTON: Hundreds of people remain missing after catastrophic flooding decimated towns, destroyed roads and cut off power for more than a million homes in the US south-east. The death toll has continued to rise since Hurricane Helene which was later downgraded to a tropical storm tore across the region. …
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02-10-2024 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: Israel says Iran launched more than 180 missiles towards the country in a large-scale attack that further heightened fears of an all-out regional war. Millions of people rushed to shelters before explosions lit up the night skies above Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Paramedics said two were slightly …
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02-10-2024 GAZA STRIP: Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 people in Gaza on Tuesday, local medics said and fighting ramped up, as the Israeli military said it had been targeting command centres used by its Islamist militant foe Hamas. Palestinian health officials said at least 13 people, including women and …
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02-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Junior doctors in India’s West Bengal state resumed their full strike on Tuesday, complaining that the country’s judiciary has not made adequate efforts to restore justice after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in August. Doctors from the West Bengal …
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