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28-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu has arrived in India to attend a key security summit meeting amid strained ties between the countries. Li will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defence ministers’ meeting on Friday in the Indian capital Delhi. This is the …

28-04-2023 MOSCOW: A year ago Volodymyr and his men were firing all 40 barrels of their BM-21 Grad rocket launcher in one go. Now they can only afford to fire a few at a time at Russian targets. “We haven’t got enough ammunition for our weapon,” he explains. His unit, …

28-04-2023 WASHINGTON: The US and South Korea have secured a landmark deal to counter the North Korean nuclear threat. Washington has agreed to periodically deploy US nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea and involve Seoul in its nuclear planning operations. In return, South Korea has agreed to not develop its own …

27-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies KHARTOUM/ NEW DELHI: India has begun evacuating some of its citizens who have been stranded in Sudan because of the ongoing conflict. A ship, INS Sumedha – carrying 278 passengers has departed Port of Sudan and is headed towards Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, …

27-04-2023 JERUSALEM: At a recent march for Land Day, Jameel Saed denounced the nationwide protests against controversial judicial reform plans that have convulsed Israel since the start of the year. “I didn’t participate in any and I’m not going to. I don’t think that many Palestinians did,” said the student …

27-04-2023 OSLO: Sweden has got into hot water with Norway after one of its research rockets malfunctioned and landed in its neighbor’s territory. The rocket was launched at 07:20 local time (05:20 GMT) on Monday from the Esrange Space Center, before plunging into a Norwegian mountain range. The Swedish Space …

27-04-2023 WASHINGTON: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has corrected her initial statement on whether President Biden plans to serve all eight years of his two terms if he is re-elected in 2024. Initially, Jean-Pierre evaded the question, saying that it was up to the President to decide. However, Jean-Pierre …

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 …