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27-04-2023 LONDON: Microsoft’s $68.7bn (£55bn) deal to buy US video game company Activision Blizzard has been blocked in the UK by the Competition and Markets Authority. Microsoft and Activision hit out at the decision and said they would appeal. “The CMA’s report contradicts the ambitions of the UK to become …

27-04-2023 TRIPOLI/ GARABULLI: The Libyan coastguard retrieved the 11 dead bodies of migrants including a minor after their Europe-bound boat sank off the North African country’s coast. The coastguard also rescued at least four survivors of the wreckage who were able to swim to shore after the incident. Authorities in …

27-04-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes, the most of any US presidential candidate ever in 2020, is facing skepticism from even his supporters about running for another term at 80 years old. Laura Miranda, a 31-year-old from New Jersey, remarked that Biden is “just a …

27-04-2023 KHARTOUM: Deposed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is being held at a military hospital in Khartoum after fighting between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out and engulfed the prison where he was being held. Al-Bashir and about 30 other prisoners were moved to Aliyaa hospital on …

27-04-2023 MATTEL: Mattel Tuesday welcomed it’s first-ever Barbie doll representing a person with Down’s syndrome aimed at pushing for its diversity mission and countering stigma around physical disabilities. The American multinational toy manufacturing company has crafted the doll as part of its Barbie Fashionistas line which introduces children to a …

27-04-2023 SINGAPORE CITY: Singapore has hanged 46-year-old Tangaraju Suppiah who was found guilty in 2018 of trafficking more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of cannabis, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from his family and activists. His family said they had been given Tangaraju’s death certificate, anti-death penalty campaigner Kirsten Han wrote …

27-04-2023 NEW YORK: A civil trial over an allegation that ex-president Donald Trump raped a prominent former American columnist E. Jean Carroll three decades ago started Tuesday with jury selection. The writer has accused the former US president of sexually assaulting her in a New York department store and then …

27-04-2023 TEHRAN: Two Iranian actresses have been charged by Iranian police for publishing photos of themselves online violating the country’s dress code for women, just weeks after announcing a crackdown on breaches, local media reported. The Tasnim news agency said late Monday that Police in Tehran have referred the case …

16-04-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: On April 15, former Indian parliamentarian Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead by three assailants, a brazen attack caught on live television. The two were being escorted by the police in the northern city of …

26-04-2023 KATHMANDU: Nepal has issued a record 454 permits to climb Mount Everest this spring, officials say, four years after at least four deaths on the world’s highest peak were blamed on overcrowding. “This is the highest number of permits the department has issued to summit Mount Everest,” Bigyan Koirala …