27-04-2025 KINSHASA/ KIGALI: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to respect each other’s sovereignty and come up with a draft peace deal by 2 May. The deal was signed by the two countries’ foreign ministers in Washington, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also …
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27-04-2025 BRASILIA: A woman in Brazil has been jailed for 14 years after writing an offensive message in lipstick on a statue during riots in Brasilia. Debora Rodrigues took part in the unrest in January 2023, along with hundreds of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The riot saw thousands …
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26-04-2025 GENEVA/ CAIRO/ GAZA: The World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday it had run out of food stocks in Gaza due to the sustained closure of crossings into the enclave, while Gaza authorities said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 78 people in the past 24 hours. “The WFP …
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26-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Armed police and soldiers searched homes and forests for militants in Indian Kashmir on Friday and India’s army chief reviewed security there after the killing of 26 men at a tourist site, the worst attack on civilians in nearly two decades. The …
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26-04-2025 OSLO/ KHARTOUM: Sudanese people are eating leaves and charcoal to survive after fleeing an attack on a camp for displaced people near the city of el-Fasher, an aid agency has told the BBC. “The stories we’ve been hearing are truly horrific,” Noah Taylor, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s head of …
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26-04-2025 MOSCOW: A senior Russian general has been killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow, officials have confirmed. Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK), the main federal investigating authority in the country confirmed Gen Yaroslav Moskalik died when a Volkswagen Golf car exploded after an improvised explosive device stuffed with pellets …
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26-04-2025 BEIJING: China will let scientists from six countries, including the US, examine the rocks it collected from the Moon, a scientific collaboration that comes as the two countries remain locked in a bitter trade war. Two NASA-funded US institutions have been granted access to the lunar samples collected by …
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26-04-2025 COTONOU: Suspected jihadist insurgents killed 54 troops in an attack last week on military posts in a Benin national park, the government said Wednesday. Government spokesman Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji gave the new toll to a press briefing on the April 17 attack in the W national park in northern …
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25-04-2025 GAZA STRIP: Over 50 Palestinians have been martyred in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials and first responders say. Nine people died in the morning when a missile hit a police station in the market area of Jabalia town, in northern Gaza, a local hospital …
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25-04-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has responded with tit-for-tat measures against India as tensions soared following a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. Islamabad suspended all visas issued to Indian nationals under an exemption scheme with immediate effect, as well as expelling some of its neighbor’s diplomats …
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