19-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s deepest tax cuts in eight years will strain government revenues but are winning praise from businesses and political pundits who say they will bolster his image in an ongoing trade fight with Washington. In the biggest tax overhaul since 2017, …
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19-08-2025 GAZA CITY/ CAIRO: Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Sunday that Israel’s plan to relocate residents from Gaza City constitutes a “new wave of genocide and displacement” for hundreds of thousands of residents in the area. The group said the planned deployment of tents and other shelter equipment by …
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19-08-2025 OTTAWA/ MONTREAL: Air Canada, opens new tab flight attendants said on Sunday they will remain on strike and spurn a government return-to-work order they called unconstitutional that would send them back to their duties by 2 pm. The Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a statement that members …
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18-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces bomb al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing seven people, as the military advances plans to take over the northern city and forcibly displace more than a million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south. The Palestinian Health Ministry says 11 more people have died of …
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18-08-2025 WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet United States President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on Monday to discuss an end to Moscow’s more than three-year war in Ukraine, a meeting announced hours after Trump’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska ended without a concrete deal. In …
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18-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: “My right eye swells up in the heat, so I stopped going to the landfill last year,” says 38-year-old Sofia Begum, wiping her watering eyes. Begum married at the age of 13, and for more than 25 years, she and her husband have picked through …
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18-08-2025 KABUL: The Taliban’s leader has warned that Afghans ungrateful for its hardline rule will be severely punished by God in a statement marking the fourth anniversary of the group’s return to power. The statement from Haibatullah Akhunzada was made in a social media post on Friday to commemorate “Victory …
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18-08-2025 JERUSALEM: New footage shared on social media shows the far-right Israeli minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, taunting the most prominent Palestinian prisoner, Marwan Barghouti, in his cell. The Palestinian Authority has condemned the video. Its Vice-President Hussein al-Sheikh described it as “the epitome of psychological, moral and physical terrorism.” The …
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18-08-2025 ALASKA: Demonstrations have been held in the city home to about 300,000 people for several days, protesting the reception of Putin on US soil and holding talks on Ukraine without the participation of its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Protesters gathered at a park in Anchorage on Friday in support of …
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18-08-2025 MADRID/ LISBON/ ATHENS: Firefighters in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey continue to battle wildfires that have raged on for weeks. Hot and dry conditions are expected to persist, challenging efforts to contain the blazes. Wildfires continue to burn across southern Europe amid an ongoing heatwave that has challenged efforts …
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