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15-11-2022 CAIRO/ AMMAN: Syrian air defences shot down Israeli missiles over Homs province on Sunday, state news agency SANA said, in what military sources said was a strike on a major Syrian air base. Syrian state television posted a short video of the “aggression” but gave no further details. A …

15-11-2022 NEW YORK: At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter. The exchange’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to Bankman-Fried’s trading company Alameda Research, the people told Reuters. A …

14-11-2022 ANKARA: Istanbul police said on Monday it had detained 46 people in relation to an attack at the heart of the city, including Syrian woman Ahlam Albashir who is suspected to have planted the bomb. In initial questioning, the woman said she was trained by Kurdish militants in Syria …

14-11-2022 NUSA DUA, INDONESIA: Leaders from the world’s top economies will gather on the Indonesian resort island of Bali next week for a G20 summit overshadowed by the war in Ukraine. Following leaders are attending the G20 summit Joe Biden The US leader will arrive in Indonesia to reassert America’s …

14-11-2022 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden accepted the resignation of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Christopher Magnus on Saturday, as the president seeks to get a better handle on the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border. The resignation comes a day after US media speculated that the …

14-11-2022 SINGAPORE CITY: “We are, of course, interested in trade with China, but not in stupid trade with China,” Germany’s Robert Habeck told DW in Singapore on Sunday. Speaking on the sidelines of a conference exploring ways to diversify German business investments in Asia, Habeck said that Russia’s invasion of …

14-11-2022 DOHA: There’s a room in Qatar’s capital Doha with hundreds of screens that show the crowd attending the World Cup 2022 matches. With more than 1.2 million fans expected in the country for the World Cup, Qatar has set up a tech hub that uses artificial intelligence to keep …

14-11-2022 PHNOM PENH, COMBODIA: US President Joe Biden has told Asian leaders that the US’s lines of communication with China would stay open to prevent conflict, as the first of three summits of world leaders this week came to a close. Addressing the East Asia Summit in Cambodia on Sunday, …

13-11-2022 ISTANBUL: An explosion on Istanbul’s popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue has injured 11 people, Turkish media has reported. Footage showed ambulances, fire trucks and police at the scene in the Taksim area of the city on Sunday. The cause of the explosion was not clear. “There are strong suspicions that …

13-11-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report MELBOURNE: England beat Pakistan by five wickets in a pulsating final in Melbourne to win the Men’s T20 World Cup and become double world champions. Chasing 138 in front of a raucous Pakistan-supporting crowd, they fell to 45-3 and 84-4 amid electric fast …