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22-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian government panel has rejected an airline industry proposal for aviation fuel to be brought under the unified Goods and Services Tax (GST), the finance minister said after a meeting of the panel on Saturday. Currently, state governments choose how to tax aviation turbine …

22-12-2024 CAIRO/ DOHA: Talks to reach a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas are 90% complete, but key issues remain that need to be bridged, a senior Palestinian official involved in the talks told media. One of the main sticking points is the continued Israeli military …

22-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Jamil Hassan, one of the most feared men in Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime, wanted for the torture and killing of civilians, was shaking as he walked down the stairs of his apartment block. Outside, the 72-year-old climbed into a car in a small convoy with his family and …

22-12-2024 PARIS: A Paris court on Friday convicted eight people for their roles in the events that led to the killing of Samuel Paty, a history teacher who’s stabbing and decapitation by an Islamist terrorist in 2020 deeply shocked France. Paty was slain in October 2020 near his school northwest …

22-12-2024 WASHINGTON: The US Senate has voted to pass a budget deal to avert what would be the first federal government shutdown since 2019, only hours after the lower House of Representatives approved the same legislation. The budget deal was passed shortly after a midnight deadline with an overwhelming of …

22-12-2024 BERLIN: Five people have been killed, including a child, and more than 200 injured after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, officials say. Many people were critically injured, Reiner Haseloff, the premier of Saxony-Anhalt state, told reporters on …

21-12-2024 NEW DELHI: India’s Rahul Gandhi is under police investigation over a scuffle between opposition members of parliament and those from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which injured two lawmakers, police said on Friday. Police were responding to a BJP complaint accusing Gandhi, the opposition leader, of …

21-12-2024 KOLOMBO: More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been rescued while adrift on a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation by Sri Lanka’s navy, bringing them safely to port. The 102 people, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee, a …

21-12-2024 LONDON/ WASHINGTON: The prime minister is expected to name Lord Peter Mandelson – one of the best known figures in British politics as the UK’s next ambassador to the US. The Labour grandee served in multiple ministerial roles under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before taking up a life …

21-12-2024 GAZA STRIP: At least 77 Palestinians have been killed and 174 wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to the latest daily update by the besieged territory’s Health Ministry. A new report titled “Gaza death trap” by Doctors Without Borders says there are “clear signs of ethnic cleansing” by …