10-03-2023 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s opposition picks the man it thinks can beat President Erdogan, Israel kills six Palestinians in a Jenin raid, and it’s been a month since the earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria. Many observers think that the political opposition in Turkey has its best chance yet of unseating …
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10-03-2023 KUALA LUMPUR: Muhyiddin Yassin, who was Malaysia’s prime minister as the country locked down over COVID-19, has been arrested and will be brought to court to face corruption charges. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said in a statement on Thursday that Muhyiddin was detained after he was questioned over …
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10-03-2023 PARIS: More than 1.2 million protesters marched in France on Tuesday as rail workers and refinery staff began rolling strikes and trade unions stepped up their campaign to try to stop Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age to 64. For the sixth time since the start of …
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10-03-2023 GUANTANAMO BAY: The United States has released a Saudi Arabian engineer who was imprisoned for more than 20 years at Guantanamo Bay military prison despite never being charged with suspected crimes following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US. The US Department of Defense said on Wednesday that …
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10-03-2023 Bureau Report KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: A bomb blast in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province has killed three people, including its Taliban governor, police said. “Two people, including Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh, have been killed in an explosion this morning,” police spokesman Asif Waziri said on Thursday. Waziri said …
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10-03-2023 ROME/ CUTRO: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will hold a cabinet meeting on Thursday near the site of a deadly shipwreck, as debate rages over whether the right-wing government’s migration policies cost lives. Meloni is expected to pay homage to the victims of the February 28 disaster, in which …
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09-03-2023 TBILISI: Protesters have clashed with police in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, after parliament backed a controversial draft law which critics say limits press freedom and suppresses civil society. Riot police used water cannon and pepper spray to disperse the crowds outside the parliament building. Some protesters were seen falling on …
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09-03-2023 MEXICO CITY: The four Americans were hauled off in a pick-up truck. Mexican authorities frantically searched as the cartel allegedly involved moved them around even taking them to a medical clinic “to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them”, Tamaulipas Governor Americo Villarreal said. They were found on …
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09-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will travel to Washington, DC to meet with US President Joe Biden, where an announcement on Australia’s plans to build nuclear-powered submarines is expected. Albanese, who was scheduled to arrive in India on Wednesday, gave few details of …
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09-03-2023 GENEVA: A British draft law unveiled Tuesday aimed at stopping migrants entering illegally on small boats will amount to an asylum ban, the UN warned, calling for “more humane” solutions instead. The United Nations refugee agency said it was “profoundly concerned” by plans that would give the British interior …
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