30-01-2023 SINGAPORE: Interpol has issued an alert for a woman behind an elaborate exam-cheating scam in Singapore which involved phones and headphones taped to students. Poh Yuan Nie, 57, fronted the racket together with three accomplices, who have all been jailed. Poh, the former principal of a local tuition centre, …
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30-01-2023 NEW DELHI: Indian billionaire Gautam Adani saw more than $20bn (£16bn) wiped off his fortune on Friday, after investors fled his companies for a second day prompted by fraud claims made by a US investment firm. The Adani Group has dismissed the report as malicious, but the response has …
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30-01-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korea has denied providing arms to Russia after the United States accused Pyongyang of supplying rockets and missiles to the Russian Wagner Group and helping bolster Moscow’s forces in Ukraine. A senior North Korean official, in a statement on Sunday, slammed the US allegations as a “groundless …
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30-01-2023 MEMPHIS: The city of Memphis in the United States has disbanded a police unit that included five officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist. Cerelyn ‘CJ’ Davis, the Memphis police chief, announced the move on Saturday, citing a “cloud of dishonor”. Davis said in …
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30-01-2023 JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to make it easier for Israelis to get firearms amid escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, a move seen as “collective punishment” and one that could further increase the violence. Netanyahu announced the measure late on Saturday after convening a …
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29-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: Except neither all Australian intelligence & secret services, Law Enforcing Agencies (LEAs) even police were unaware about one of the world’s biggest Khalistan movements nor none of one official was present at Melbourne’s voting place until conflict between political activists …
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29-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ramps up military infrastructure in the region. At least 24 soldiers were killed …
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29-01-2023 WELLINGTON: Authorities in New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, began mopping up on Saturday after torrential rains brought flash flooding and evacuations, with at least two people confirmed dead and two missing in the widespread inundation. A state of emergency remained in place in the city of 1.6 million people …
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29-01-2023 WASHINGTON: A four-star US Air Force general said in a memo that his gut told him the United States would fight China in the next two years, comments that Pentagon officials said were not consistent with American military assessments. “I hope I am wrong,” General Mike Minihan, who heads …
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29-01-2023 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: A loud explosion at a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan was caused by an “unsuccessful” drone attack, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, citing the defence ministry. “One of (the drones) was hit by the … air defence and the other two were caught …
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