24-08-2025 OTTAWA: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Friday that his country will drop some of its billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs on US goods, though it will keep levies on autos, steel and aluminium. It comes a day after he and President Donald Trump spoke over the …
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24-08-2025 LONDON: The UK government has agreed to pay compensation to thousands of Kenyans who were affected by a fire caused by a British military training exercise four years ago. The out-of-court settlement follows a lengthy legal battle in which 7,723 claimants said they had lost property and suffered health …
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23-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: At least 60 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, medical sources told media, including 36 killed in Gaza City where Israel was escalating attacks in the lead-up to a broader planned offensive. An Israeli air strike hit a school in Sheikh Radwan, …
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23-08-2025 COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested and appeared in court over allegations he misused state funds while in office, police say. Wickremesinghe, 76, who led the country during a devastating 2019-2024 economic crisis, had been investigated over a visit he made to London to attend …
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23-08-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump says he will fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook if she doesn’t quit, intensifying his effort to gain influence over the central bank. “I’ll fire her if she doesn’t resign,” Trump told reporters on Friday during a visit to a Washington, DC, museum …
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23-08-2025 TEHRAN: Iran and three major European powers have agreed to resume nuclear talks next week, even as the threat of revived sanctions looms. Iranian state media reported on Friday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a call with his French, British and German counterparts, during which they agreed deputy …
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23-08-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA STRIP: Two Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza in the past 24 hours, which also saw 71 people killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. A UN classification system used to determine access to food has officially declared famine …
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22-08-2025 MOSCOW/ NEW DELHI: India and Russia are looking to increase their annual trade by about 50% over the next five years to reach $100 billion, seeking to reduce tariffs as both countries see mounting tensions with the US, a top envoy said. Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said …
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22-08-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his government’s bitter diplomatic dispute with Australia, claiming that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s legacy has been irrevocably blackened by his “weakness” towards Hamas. In an interview with Sky News Australia scheduled to air on Thursday night, Netanyahu said Albanese’s …
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22-08-2025 WASHINGTON: A group of 17 US senators has written to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, condemning an Israeli attack last week that killed several Al Jazeera journalists, and urging the US to pressure Israel to grant foreign media access to Gaza and protect journalists there. The letter published …
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