10-05-2023 GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Israel launched pre-dawn air strikes on Tuesday against the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, its military announced, with the health ministry of the Hamas-controlled territory saying 13 Palestinians including four children were martyred. The ministry said that women and children were among …
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09-05-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A large numbers of Indian farmers have broken down police barricades in New Delhi to join wrestlers protesting against the sport’s federation chief over allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation. Several of the wrestlers are from the nearby state of Haryana, a rice-producing area where …
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09-05-2023 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Air raid sirens have sounded across Ukraine after Russia launched a fresh wave of drone and missile strikes. Explosions were heard overnight in the capital, Kyiv, where the mayor said five people had been injured in the “biggest” kamikaze drone attack so far. One person was killed …
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09-05-2023 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan health authorities are alarmed after two people died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in the country’s Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The first death from the disease, commonly known as Congo fever, was reported on Friday in Karachi, the country’s largest city and capital of …
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09-05-2023 KUALA LUMPUR: For 12-year-old Zaffan (played by Zafreen Zairizal), going through puberty is literally a beast. When she discovers that her body is morphing in terrifying ways and her community sidelines her, Zaffan has no choice but to accept her true self, revealing her beauty, wrath and power to …
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09-05-2023 NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump has rejected his last chance to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist has accused him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996. Trump, a Republican candidate for president in 2024, was given until 5pm …
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09-05-2023 KINSHASA: The death toll following flooding and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week has risen to at least 401, according to Theo Ngwabidje Kasi, governor of South Kivu province in the east of the central African country. At least 176 people were reported dead on Friday …
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09-05-2023 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban government have agreed to boost trade and lower tensions along their border amid a surge in attacks on Pakistani security forces, officials said. Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, struck the deal on …
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09-05-2023 KHARTOUM: The last place Lina Mijok wanted to go as she fled fighting in Sudan was back to her own country, South Sudan, which she had left as civil war erupted in 2013 but when Sudan’s army started battling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the streets around …
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09-05-2023 AMMAN: A suspected drug smuggler and his family have been killed in an air raid in southern Syria, an attack attributed to Jordan, according to a war monitor. Amman did not immediately comment on Monday’s attack, which came days after Jordan warned it would use force within Syria to …
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