23-09-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Rescue workers in Beirut searched on Saturday for people still missing in rubble a day after an Israeli airstrike, targeting Hezbollah commanders, killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, according to authorities. Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed group, said 16 members including senior …
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23-09-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE/ NAIROBI: Kenyan President William Ruto has landed in the Haitian capital to assess a Kenya-led security mission in the Caribbean nation, a day after a United Nations expert warned that Haiti faced deepening violence and insecurity. In a statement on Saturday, a spokesperson for Ruto said the Kenyan …
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23-09-2024 COLOMBO: An overnight curfew has been imposed across Sri Lanka after voting ended in the presidential election as the island nation seeks to recover from an unprecedented economic crisis that triggered mass protests and forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee. Police announced the eight-hour curfew in “view of the …
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23-09-2024 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Israel’s military launched 400 attacks on Lebanon on Saturday and Hezbollah fired rockets at the Ramat David base near the city of Haifa, in their largest exchange of fire since the war on Gaza began. Heavily armed, masked Israeli troops raided Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah …
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23-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump has said he will not take part in a second TV debate ahead of November’s presidential election. While Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s candidate, accepted an invitation to the CNN debate on 23 October, Republican nominee Trump told a rally it was …
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23-09-2024 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled his new government almost three months after a snap general election delivered a hung parliament. The long-awaited new line up, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier; marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats. …
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22-09-2024 COLOMBO: For the first time in the country’s history, Sri Lanka’s presidential election has gone into a second round of counting after no single candidate won more than 50% of the vote. The election commission will now count voters’ second and third choices for president people were asked to …
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22-09-2024 TEHRAN/ KHORASAN: An explosion caused by a gas leak at a coal mine in eastern Iran has killed at least 51 people, state media said on Sunday. More than 20 others were injured after the blast in South Khorasan province. It is reported to have been caused by a …
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22-09-2024 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that Israel is committing “shameless crimes” against children, not combatants. His comments came a day after an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killed at least 31 people, including three children and seven women, according to the Lebanese …
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22-09-2024 KUALA LUMPUR: Police in Malaysia have arrested the chief executive and other leaders of a prominent business group accused of running charity homes where hundreds of children and youth were allegedly physically and sexually abused. Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain confirmed on Thursday that Nasiruddin Mohd Ali, the head …
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