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24-05-2023 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch United States weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by …

24-05-2023 MOSCOW: Moscow’s forces are continuing to engage in operations against cross-border raiders described alternatively as either armed Russian opposition groups or Ukrainian saboteurs who entered Russia from Ukraine in one of the most daring attacks on Russian territory since the Kremlin’s war on Kyiv began 15 months ago. The …

24-05-2023 KHARTOUM: A week-long ceasefire period agreed by Sudan’s warring factions and designed to allow for the delivery of aid has begun after the army conducted heavy air strikes across the capital Khartoum against its paramilitary rivals. The ceasefire, which was agreed to on Saturday after five weeks of fierce …

24-05-2023 NEW DELHI: India will make tests mandatory for cough syrups before they are exported, a government notice showed, after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in The Gambia and Uzbekistan. Any cough syrup must have a certificate of analysis issued by a government …

24-05-2023 LISBON/ ALGARVE: Portuguese police will resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the toddler from the United Kingdom (UK) who disappeared in the country’s Algarve region in 2007, following a request from German authorities. Portugal’s Judicial Police released a statement on Monday confirming local media reports that they would conduct the …

24-05-2023 KYIV: Ukraine’s foreign minister has begun a tour of African countries, stepping up wartime Kyiv’s diplomatic push to challenge Russian influence in the Global South and cement the vision laid out by Ukraine as the only path to peace. Top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday his main priority …

23-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: One of Australia’s top television journalists has opened a bout of national soul-searching by quitting his show over the racist abuse he faces as an Indigenous man in the spotlight. An award-winning journalist with the ABC, Stan Grant said the national broadcaster had …

23-05-2023 PRETORIA: At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure is not the worst problem. The three toilets are pit latrines, effectively 10-foot-deep (3-metre) holes in the ground that students line up during a …

23-05-2023 TEHRAN: Ali Shamkhani, one of the top figures within the Iranian establishment, has left his post as the country’s security chief after almost a decade. State media confirmed on Monday that President Ebrahim Raisi, as the head of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has appointed Ali Akbar Ahmadian, …

23-05-2023 GEORGETOWN: At least 20 people have been killed and several others injured in a “horrific” school dormitory fire in the South American country of Guyana, officials said on Monday. “It is with great sadness that we bring to you a heart-wrenching update on the fire at the dormitory at …