31-03-2023 JERUSALEM: Shimon Mizrahi points from his apartment balcony out to a large two-lane road. On the other side is a synagogue, where children are playing. The retiree lives in Neve Yaakov, a settlement in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem that is considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. He …
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31-03-2023 NEW YORK: The Russian authorities may have shut down his newspaper, but journalist Dmitry Muratov refuses to be silenced. When we meet in Moscow, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Russia’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate is worried how far the Kremlin will go in its confrontation with the West. …
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31-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australia’s parliament has passed breakthrough climate laws targeting the nation’s worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about 5 percent each year. The laws apply to 215 major industrial facilities, each producing more than 100,000 tons of greenhouse …
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31-03-2023 BEIJING/ TAIPEI: Asia must avoid “chaos and conflicts” or the region’s future will be lost, Chinese Premier Li Qiang has said. Speaking to an international audience of political and business leaders on Thursday, Li said China can be an “anchor for world peace” and stability, and will continue undertaking …
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31-03-2023 MELBOURNE/ LONDON/ TOKYO: Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed concern over the Myanmar military’s dissolution of the country’s former ruling party, warning the move could bring further instability to the violence-wracked country. The statements of concern on Wednesday came a day after the Myanmar …
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31-03-2023 MOSCOW: Russian authorities have detained an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service (FSB), the top KGB successor agency, said on Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, suspected of trying to obtain classified information. It …
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30-03-2023 WASHINGTON: Several casualties have been reported as the two US Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed in the northwest of Kentucky during a training mission Wednesday night, resulting in “several casualties,” officials said. The helicopters, from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), crashed at around 10 pm in Kentucky’s Trigg …
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30-03-2023 DUBAI: DUBAI: United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has appointed his eldest son Sheikh Khaled as crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich capital of the Gulf state, and named his brothers to top roles, state media said on Wednesday. Sheikh Mohammed, who became president …
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30-03-2023 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: US President Joe Biden has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans for judicial reform and also said that the Israeli leader would not be getting an invitation to visit the White House in the near future. President Biden passed these remarks while speaking to reporters in North …
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30-03-2023 LONDON: Heartbroken parents of a five-year-old boy claimed that they heard the hospital staff laughing in the background at the time when their son’s life support machine was switched off, Daily Mail reported. Muhammad Ayaan Haroon was admitted to Sheffield Children’s Hospital in South Yorkshire, England after he was …
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