07-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India plans to overhaul its criminal sentencing norms to counter accusations of arbitrary punishment, sources said, following public outrage over the 2022 rape conviction of a man within 30 minutes of trial, by a judge who handed him the death penalty. A higher …
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07-11-2024 BEIJING/ HONG KONG: “Having three children is the best” says a vibrant neon pink sign at a wedding expo in the southern Chinese city of Changsha, where visitors can also pick up tips on tying the knot and men can strap on a pregnancy belly to experience childbirth pain. …
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07-11-2024 GAZA STRIP/ CAIRO: Israel’s military issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after carrying out strikes across the enclave which Palestinian media and medics said had killed at least 30 people. An air strike damaged two houses in the town of Beit Lahiya …
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07-11-2024 HARARE: Zimbabwe’s government has banned “with immediate effect” police officers from using mobile phones while working. The ban is contained in a memo, ordering police officers to abandon their private communication gadgets while on duty. All officers are required to surrender their mobile phones to their supervisors once they …
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06-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump wins Florida as both he and Kamala Harris pick up several US states. Vote counting is ramping up as polls close in the key battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania. Democracy and the economy are the top issues for voters, early exit polls suggest. Americans are …
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06-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ NEW DELHI: India foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday the vandalism of a Hindu temple in Canada on Monday was deeply concerning. “What happened yesterday at the Hindu temple in Canada was obviously deeply concerning,” he told reporters in the Australian capital Canberra …
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06-11-2024 NEW HALFA: Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan’s eastern El Gezira state late last month. They accused her of loyalty to the army and its allies, their …
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06-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS: Israel has formally ended a decades-old cooperation agreement with the United Nations Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA) that covered the protection, movement and diplomatic immunity of the agency in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel notified the UN in a letter on Sunday, as required …
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06-11-2024 WASHINGTON: The presidential race has seen a whopping $2.6 billion spent on political advertising since early March, according to a report released on Monday by the ad tracking firm AdImpact. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign and groups backing her outspent Republican Donald Trump’s campaign and his allies, $1.6 billion …
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06-11-2024 PENNSYLVANIA: The $1m-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk’s political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday. The common pleas court judge Angelo Foglietta ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance did not …
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