14-03-2025 MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was awaiting details from Washington about a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine before responding, while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hoped a deal would be struck within days. As Moscow considered the plan, President Vladimir Putin visited Russia’s Kursk …
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14-03-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Apple has successfully blocked its opponents in India, Tinder-owner Match, opens new tab and a group of startups, from accessing its commercially sensitive information which was part of antitrust findings against the US firm, a confidential order shows. An investigation by the Competition …
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14-03-2025 LUANDA/ BRAZZAVILLE/ KIGALI: The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels will hold talks next week, mediator Angola has announced. A statement from President Joao Lourenco’s office on Wednesday said the two parties would begin “direct peace negotiations” in the Angolan capital Luanda …
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14-03-2025 NEW YORK: Hundreds of people have rallied outside a New York City courtroom to demand the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, whose arrest over the weekend sparked condemnation and fears of a crackdown on free speech in the United States. The demonstrators gathered on Wednesday outside Manhattan’s federal …
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14-03-2025 TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected the idea of negotiations with the US over its nuclear program, as Tehran confirmed receiving a letter from President Donald Trump. Last week, Trump said the letter proposed talks on a deal that would prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and …
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14-03-2025 MARSEILLE: Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 71-year-old former mafia boss on a motorway near Grenoble in south-eastern France. Jean-Pierre Maldera, described by French media as a “godfather” of the local mafia in the 1980s, was reportedly chased in his car and shot as he travelled up …
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14-03-2025 BELEM, BRAZIL: A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belem. It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people including world leaders …
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14-03-2025 MANILA/ THE HAGUE: A plane carrying former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has arrived in the Netherlands where he is to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his deadly “war on drugs”. Duterte was arrested at Manila airport on Tuesday and within hours …
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14-03-2025 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump says his administration will “of course” respond to the EU’s decision to impose counter-tariffs on €26bn (£21.9bn, $28.3bn) worth of American goods. “Whatever they charge us, we’re charging them,” the US president says. The bloc’s announcement came as a response to 25% tariffs being placed on …
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13-03-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: Indian Americans are increasingly optimistic about India’s future, but hold deep concerns about US-India relations under a second Donald Trump administration, a new survey finds. The 2024 Indian-American Survey, conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and YouGov in October, examined …
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