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07-01-2023 MEXICO CITY: Mexican security forces captured on Thursday drug cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, a son of jailed kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, triggering a wave of violence ahead of a visit by US President Joe Biden next week. The violence took place largely in the city of Culiacan in …

06-01-2023 CALIFORNIA: Evacuation orders and advisories are in place in parts of northern California as a major storm slams into the coast. Regions that have been hit by wildfires in the past were among the first places to be told to evacuate due to concerns about flooding and landslides. California’s …

06-01-2023 RABAT: Morocco has demanded that Israel recognize its sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara before Rabat opens an embassy in Tel Aviv, the news outlet Axios has reported, citing four current and former Israeli officials involved in the matter. For decades, Morocco has been involved in a …

06-01-2023 TEHRAN: Iran warned France on Wednesday it would respond after “insulting” cartoons depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were published in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The weekly had published dozens of cartoons on the same day ridiculing the highest religious and political figure in the Islamic republic. …

06-01-2023 JERUSALEM: A Jerusalem bishop said Wednesday he was “dismayed” by the desecration of dozens of Christian graves on the edge of the Old City, as police probed the vandalism. Stone graves lay in pieces with crosses toppled at the Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion, where Christians believe Jesus’s Last …

06-01-2023 LONDON: Prince Harry has claimed his brother William physically attacked him, according to the Guardian, which says it has seen a copy of the Duke of Sussex’s memoir, Spare. The newspaper reported that the book sets out an argument between the pair over Prince Harry’s wife Meghan. “He grabbed …

06-01-2023 WASHINGTON: The deeply riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running Wednesday as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the race for speaker. Conservative hardliners have been blocking establishment pick Kevin McCarthy in a humiliating standoff that has paralyzed …

06-01-2023 JERUSALEM/ TEL AVIV: The longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, Karim Younis, has been released after serving 40 years in Israeli prisons. Israeli prison authorities released Younis, 66, from Hadarim prison just north of Tel Aviv at dawn on Thursday morning. He was arrested in 1983 and charged in Israeli courts with …

06-01-2023 UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the controversial visit to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound by an Israeli minister that has enraged Palestinians. The 15-member Council will convene at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT) at the United Nations headquarters in New York following a request by …

05-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HALWANI: India’s Supreme Court has put on hold the demolition of more than 4,000 homes that were allegedly encroaching on land belonging to the railways in Haldwani town in the northern state of Uttarakhand. “There cannot be uprooting of 50,000 people overnight. There …