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24-03-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States has lifted a $10m reward for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesperson says. Despite the announcement on Saturday, the FBI still lists the reward on its website, saying Haqqani was “believed to …

24-03-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ JOHANNESBURG: Another conflict is looming in the world’s youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its foundation. A tenuous power-sharing deal is teetering on the brink. An evacuation of non-emergency US government employees is underway, and …

24-03-2025 ISTANBUL: Prosecutors early Sunday requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links. A court is now set to decide whether the popular opposition figure will be charged and jailed pending a trial. …

24-03-2025 ORLANDO: Orlando police have recovered two sets of earrings worth a combined $769,500 (£597,000) after an alleged thief swallowed them more than two weeks ago. Jaythan Gilder, 32, swallowed the Tiffany & Co. diamond earrings around the time he was taken into custody on 26 February, police said. Gilder …

24-03-2025 CARACAS: Venezuela will resume flights for its nationals deported by the US, after reaching an agreement with the Trump administration. Venezuela, which does not have diplomatic relations with the US, had initially agreed to accept deportees in February but President Nicolas Maduro halted flights in March after a dispute …

24-03-2025 WASHINGTON/ LONDON: Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for an international force to support a ceasefire in Ukraine has been dismissed as “a posture and a pose” by Donald Trump’s special envoy. Steve Witkoff said the idea was based on a “simplistic” notion of the UK Prime Minister and other European …

23-03-2025 GAZA STRIP: An Israeli air strike in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza has killed top Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel, a Hamas official told media on Sunday. Locals say the air strike killed both Bardaweel, a member of the group’s political office, and his wife. Israeli …

23-03-2025 LONDON: London’s Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday, a day after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe’s busiest airport, causing global travel chaos. Some flights were cancelled or delayed as the travel industry scrambled to reroute passengers and fix battered airline schedules after the …

23-03-2025 NEW YORK: Columbia University agreed to some changes demanded by US President Donald Trump’s administration before it can negotiate to regain federal funding that was pulled this month over allegations the school tolerated antisemitism on campus. The Ivy League university in New York City acquiesced to several demands in …

23-03-2025 ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian troops have killed more than 300 Fano armed group fighters, former allies against rebels in the Tigray region, in two days of renewed clashes in the northern Amhara region, according to the army. The military claimed in a statement on Friday that the fighters had carried …