17-01-2025 BERLIN: Germany’s cabinet has decided to authorize the army to shoot down suspicious drones seen near military sites or other critical infrastructure. A statement from Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that, “especially since [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, we have seen that drones are being …
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16-01-2025 QATAR/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israel and Hamas have agreed a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal following 15 months of war, mediators Qatar and the US say. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said the agreement would come into effect on Sunday so long as it …
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16-01-2025 LONDON: The British minister responsible for financial services and fighting corruption resigned on Tuesday after weeks of questions over her financial ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, ousted last year as prime minister of Bangladesh. Tulip Siddiq, 42, had repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and Prime Minister Keir Starmer said …
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16-01-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KOCHI: Police in India’s southern state of Kerala have arrested 44 men accused of raping an 18-year-old girl over a period of five years, a police official said on Tuesday, in a case that has shocked the coastal tourist resort. The victim, an athlete who …
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16-01-2025 KHARTOUM: At least 120 people are reported to have been killed in random shelling on Monday in the Dar-Salam area of the Sudanese city of Omdurman, across the Nile from the capital, Khartoum, according to a local volunteer network. The Ombada Emergency Response Room said the death toll was …
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16-01-2025 BRASILIA: Brazilian authorities have expressed “serious concern” over a recent announcement by the social media giant Meta that they will ease their policies restricting incendiary speech and fact-checking. In a statement on Tuesday, the Brazilian attorney general’s office (AGU) said that it would ask for more information from Meta, …
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16-01-2025 DOHA: A ceasefire in the Israel and Hamas war in Gaza is at its “closest point” yet, Qatar has said, as hopes grow that a deal to end the devastating 15-month conflict is imminent. Negotiations to bring the conflict to an end are in their final stages, Qatar’s Ministry …
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16-01-2025 LOS ANGELES: At least 100,000 scores by the pioneering 20th century Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg have been destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires. The sheet music was kept at his family’s music production company which burnt down in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood last week. While no original manuscripts were …
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16-01-2025 BRUSSELS: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has launched a new mission to increase the surveillance of ships in the Baltic Sea after critical undersea cables were damaged or severed last year. NATO chief Mark Rutte said the mission, dubbed “Baltic Sentry”; would involve more patrol aircraft, warships and …
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15-01-2025 WASHINGTON: US Special Counsel Jack Smith concluded that Donald Trump engaged in an “unprecedented criminal effort” to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election, but was thwarted in bringing the case to trial by the president-elect’s November election victory, according to a report published on Tuesday. The …
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