26-12-2025 LONDON: The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure US tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. The Europeans, described by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations, fell afoul of a new visa …
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26-12-2025 CAIRO: Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary-general of the Arab League, has praised a peace plan presented by Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris to the United Nations Security Council earlier this week. Gheit said on Wednesday that the 22-member league backed the recently unveiled initiative, which calls for a ceasefire …
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25-12-2025 MADRID: Spain’s Christmas lottery has been welcomed as an “injection of hope” in the northwest of the country, where the jackpot handed out hundreds of millions of euros just months after wildfires had caused devastation. Most of the first-prize-winning tickets in the lottery, known as El Gordo, had been …
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25-12-2025 SYDNEY: Australia’s most populous state is set to pass tougher gun laws, ban the display of terrorist symbols and curb protests in an emergency sitting following the Bondi mass shooting, as authorities stepped up their response to the anti-Semitic attack. Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured in the …
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25-12-2025 BEIJING: China on Tuesday urged the United States to fulfil its nuclear disarmament responsibilities after a draft Pentagon report said China was likely to have loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles in sites near the Mongolian border and showed no desire for arms control talks. “As a super …
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25-12-2025 JERUSALEM/ DOHA: The Israeli parliament has approved an extension of a law which allows the shutdown of foreign media outlets over national security grounds for an additional two years. The bill, which replaces temporary legislation passed last April, includes several amendments aimed at eliminating judicial oversight. It can now …
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25-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A protest erupted in India’s capital Tuesday in response to the death of a Hindu man who was lynched and burned by an angry mob in neighboring Bangladesh, a new sign of strain in relations between the neighboring countries. The protest in New Delhi, mainly …
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25-12-2025 SANA’A: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the country’s internationally-recognized government agreed to a large-scale prisoner exchange involving nearly 3,000 detainees, officials from both sides said on Tuesday, in what the United Nations described as a rare but meaningful step to ease suffering in the decade-long war. Majed Fadhail, a …
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25-12-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Sudan’s prime minister has presented a plan to end the country’s nearly three-year war before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), calling on members to stand “on the right side of history” by backing the initiative, as fighting continued in Kordofan and North Kordofan states. Addressing the …
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24-12-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has sparked a renewed disagreement with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the Arctic island he has said he would like to annex. Trump announced on Sunday that Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, would become the US’s special envoy to Greenland, a …
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