10-01-2023 TAIPEI/ BEIJING: Taiwan condemned China on Monday for holding its second military combat drills around the island in less than a month, with the defence ministry saying it had detected 57 Chinese aircraft. China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory and has been ramping up military, political and …
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10-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ : Indian authorities have evacuated hundreds of people from their homes in the Himalayan town of Joshimath in northern Uttarakhand state after buildings in the area popular with pilgrims and tourists developed cracks due to shifting soil. About 1,890 metres (6,200 feet) above …
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10-01-2023 JERUSALEM: Israel’s new far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has instructed police to remove Palestinian flags from public spaces, calling the Palestinian national symbol an act of “terrorism”. Israeli law does not outlaw Palestinian flags but police and soldiers have the right to remove them in cases where …
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09-01-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report GENEVA/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is in dire want of $8 billion from world donors during the next three years to shore up the country’s economy that was mostly laid to waste by extreme floods from June to October 2022, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said …
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09-01-2023 BERLIN: A 32-year-old Iranian man has been arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting an “Islamist-motivated” attack. The man had been plotting to use cyanide and ricin to commit a “serious act of violence”, North Rhine-Westphalia police said in a statement. They raided the man’s Castrop-Rauxel residence, in the Ruhr …
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09-01-2023 BEIJING: China has reopened its borders to international visitors for the first time since it imposed travel restrictions in March 2020. Incoming travelers will no longer need to quarantine marking a significant change in the country’s COVID policy as it battles a surge in cases. They will still require …
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09-01-2023 TEHRAN: Tehran has been targeting those who support the protesters in Iran by arresting journalists and dismissing lecturers. Even experts who point out violations are being locked away. “We don’t know which of us will be arrested next. We’re very worried,” Iranian journalists revealed in background talks. They avoid …
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09-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s government expects economic growth to slow in the financial year that ends on March 31 as pandemic-related distortions ease and pent-up demand for goods levels out going into 2023. Gross domestic product (GDP) will likely rise 7 percent in the current fiscal …
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09-01-2023 RANGOON: Myanmar’s military government has held talks with three ethnic armed groups on staging elections in areas under rebel control, a spokesman for one of the groups has said. Leaders from the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP), United Wa State Party (UWSP) and National Democratic Alliance Army which have …
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09-01-2023 JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government that they say threaten democracy and freedoms. The protesters gathered in the city of Tel Aviv on Saturday, days after the most right-wing and religiously conservative government in the country’s …
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