18-08-2025 JERUSALEM: New footage shared on social media shows the far-right Israeli minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, taunting the most prominent Palestinian prisoner, Marwan Barghouti, in his cell. The Palestinian Authority has condemned the video. Its Vice-President Hussein al-Sheikh described it as “the epitome of psychological, moral and physical terrorism.” The …
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18-08-2025 ALASKA: Demonstrations have been held in the city home to about 300,000 people for several days, protesting the reception of Putin on US soil and holding talks on Ukraine without the participation of its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Protesters gathered at a park in Anchorage on Friday in support of …
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18-08-2025 MADRID/ LISBON/ ATHENS: Firefighters in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey continue to battle wildfires that have raged on for weeks. Hot and dry conditions are expected to persist, challenging efforts to contain the blazes. Wildfires continue to burn across southern Europe amid an ongoing heatwave that has challenged efforts …
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17-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Palestinian journalists have long known Gaza to be the most dangerous place on earth for media workers, but Israel’s latest attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City has left many reeling from shock and fear. Four Al Jazeera staff were among seven people killed in …
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17-08-2025 BEIJING: A deputy to a prominent Chinese diplomat being questioned by authorities was also detained, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a further sign of uncertainty in the top echelons of China’s diplomacy. Sun Haiyan, a senior diplomat and former ambassador to Singapore, was detained in early …
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17-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the country on Friday to move towards more self-reliance, manufacture everything from fertilizers to jet engines and EV batteries and vowed to protect farmers in the face of a trade conflict with Washington. With the punishing tariffs imposed on …
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17-08-2025 MIAMI, FLORIDA: Hurricane Erin is rapidly intensifying as it tracks above the northeastern Caribbean Saturday, churning up rough surf and sending rain and gusty winds to islands south of its path. Erin has become a rare and “catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds near 160 mph as of …
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17-08-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Global talks to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution have once again failed. The UN negotiations, the sixth round of talks in just under three years, were due to end on Thursday but countries continued to negotiate into the night in the hopes of breaking …
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17-08-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies PESHAWAR/ BUNER: The death toll from heavy monsoon floods and landslides in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir continues to rise rapidly, with at least 410 people confirmed dead. Most of the deaths were recorded by disaster authorities in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan. …
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17-08-2025 OTTAWA: Air Canada has suspended all its flights as a strike by cabin staff begins, a move the airline said will disrupt travel plans for around 130,000 passengers a day. The union representing more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants confirmed the start of industrial action early on Saturday …
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