05-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s overhaul of consumer tax stands to make everything from soaps to luxury SUVs cheaper but global fashion brands such as Zara, Levi Strauss, opens new tab and Lacoste have been spooked by higher levies on all apparel priced at more than $29. The premium …
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05-09-2025 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would “fully support” Russia’s army as a “fraternal duty”, and Russian President Vladimir Putin called the two countries’ ties “special”, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. Kim and Putin held a meeting on Wednesday on the sidelines of …
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05-09-2025 KATHMANDU: Nepal’s government has said it will shut off access to major social media platforms, including Facebook and X, after they failed to comply with authorities’ registration requirements. The move, announced on Thursday, is part of what the government says is an effort to curb online hate, rumors and …
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05-09-2025 SAN FRANCISCO: Google has been told by a US jury to pay $425m for violating the privacy of tens of millions of users who opted out of a feature tracking app use. The jury in San Francisco handed down the verdict on Wednesday after a group of Google users …
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05-09-2025 PARIS: Western leaders have held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris over the prospect of providing security guarantees in the event of a peace deal with Russia. The summit in Paris on Thursday brings together leaders from Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada, as well as Zelenskyy and …
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05-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: Entire families are being “wiped out” as Israel intensifies the bombardment of residential areas in Gaza City and makeshift encampments across the Strip, with at least 54 Palestinians killed in attacks since dawn on Thursday. A two-day event examining the United Kingdom’s role in Israel’s war on …
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04-09-2025 BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace and war at a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday, flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in an unprecedented show of force. The event to mark 80 years since …
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04-09-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India plans to increase pharmaceutical exports to Russia, the Netherlands and Brazil, according to two industry sources aware of the matter, aiming to expand its presence beyond the United States, its largest market, amid tariff-related concerns. India’s pharmaceutical industry is currently exempt from US President …
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04-09-2025 OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso’s unelected transitional parliament has passed a bill banning homosexual acts, a little over a year after a draft of an amended family code that criminalized homosexuality was adopted by the country’s cabinet. The new measure unanimously voted through on Monday imposes punishments of up to five …
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04-09-2025 KHARTOUM: landslide has killed at least 370 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, a UN official has told media. Antoine Gerard, the UN’s deputy humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said that it was hard to assess the scale of the incident or the exact death toll as …
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