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12-12-2024 KHARTOUM: Approximately 227 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Sudan on Monday and Tuesday by barrel bombs and shelling from the warring sides, rights activists said. The 20-month-old war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been turning increasingly bloody as ceasefire efforts have stalled, …

12-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian shares were little changed on Wednesday, as investors awaited key U.S and domestic inflation data for cues into the rate trajectories of the two countries. The NSE Nifty 50, opens new tab added 0.13% to 24,641.8, while the BSE Sensex, opens new tab rose …

12-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family’s hometown. Videos verified by media showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum in Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia region. The rebels …

12-12-2024 CANBERRA: Australian police have launched an investigation after a car was set alight and houses were vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney. The incident has been condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a “hate crime”. He told ABC News: “There’s no place for antisemitism in this country, or …

12-12-2024 JERUSALEM: This was a remarkable day for Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu holds the record as its longest-serving prime minister. Now he has become the country’s first serving leader to take to the witness stand as a defendant in a criminal case. Moreover, he did so amid ongoing war in Gaza …

11-12-2024 ACCRA: Ghana’s electoral commission on Monday declared ex-president and main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama winner of Saturday’s presidential election with 56.55% of the vote, according to provisional results. Mahama’s main rival, vice president and ruling-party presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia, already conceded defeat on Sunday in both presidential and …

11-12-2024 WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court, turning away another case involving transgender issues, declined on Monday to hear a bid to revive a lawsuit against a public school district in Wisconsin over a policy to support gender identity of students that some parents challenged on religious rights and other grounds. …

11-12-2024 JERUSALEM/ TEL AVIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is set to take the stand on Tuesday for the first time in his long-running corruption trial under a court order that is likely to force him to juggle between the courtroom and war room for weeks. Israel has been …

11-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has appointed career civil servant Sanjay Malhotra as its new central bank governor in a surprise move that leaves markets guessing about the future direction of monetary policy. Financial markets had expected the Reserve Bank of India’s current Governor Shaktikanta Das to be handed …

11-12-2024 LONDON/ LEADING: Europe’s Climate Monitor (ECM) says 2024 is “effectively certain” to be the hottest on record and the first year above the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) climate benchmark, a critical threshold to protect the Earth from dangerously overheating. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Monday an unprecedented …