22-05-2023 TEHRAN: The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force warned that its strikes against the KRG-based terrorist groups will resume if the Iraqi government fails to meet its commitment to disarm and evict the terrorists. Speaking to Tasnim in Iran’s western city of Sanandaj on Saturday, IRGC Ground Force Commander …
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22-05-2023 HIROSHIMA: The leaders of the Quad group, Australia, India, Japan and the United States have delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behavior at a summit in Hiroshima. The US President Joe Biden and his three partners in the group did not mention China by name on Saturday but …
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22-05-2023 ROME/ BOLOGNA: More than 36,000 people have been forced from their homes by deadly floods in northeast Italy, regional officials have said, as rising waters swallowed more houses and new landslides isolated hamlets. Fourteen people were killed this week after streets in the cities and towns of the Emilia-Romagna …
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22-05-2023 SAN SALVADOR: At least nine people have died after a stampede at a football stadium in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, officials have said. Police said seven men and two women were among the dead, with all the victims over the age of 18. The crush occurred during a …
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22-05-2023 KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated the Wagner paramilitary group, after it claimed to have captured the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin posing with some of his fighters made the claim in a video posted to social media on Saturday. Ukraine’s deputy defence minister rejected …
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22-05-2023 KHARTOUM: A temporary ceasefire in Sudan has been agreed as fighting between two warring factions entered its sixth week. Previous truce attempts between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have tended to collapse within minutes of beginning but the new deal will be enforced by …
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21-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India will do “whatever we can” to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged Saturday as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since Russia’s invasion. “I understand your pain and the pain of Ukrainian citizens very well,” Modi …
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21-05-2023 ATHENS: Greece said it has recovered hundreds of looted Neolithic to Byzantine artefacts including a second century bronze statue of Alexander the Great from a notorious British antiquities dealer after a 17-year legal battle. The fight to repatriate the trove of 351 objects began in 2006 with authorities investigating …
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21-05-2023 NAYPYIDAW: At least 145 people were killed when Cyclone Mocha hit the country this week, Myanmar’s ruling military has said. The impoverished western state of Rakhine bore the brunt of the storm that on Sunday tore down houses, communication towers and bridges with winds of up to 210 kilometres …
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21-05-2023 KHARTOUM: Artillery fire has pounded the outer areas of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as fighting that trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than one million people entered its sixth week. Air attacks were also reported on Saturday by witnesses in southern Omdurman and Khartoum North, the …
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