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14-03-2024 GENEVA: Food aid for hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees in Chad, some of whom are close to starvation, will be suspended next month without more funding, the World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday. Since conflict broke out in Sudan nearly a year ago, more than half a …

13-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India on Tuesday rejected Chinese objections to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s weekend visit to Arunachal Pradesh, saying the northeastern border state has always been “an integral and inalienable part of India”. The Indian foreign ministry’s comments came a day after Chinese foreign …

13-03-2024 WELLINGTON/ SYDNEY: New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission said on Tuesday it was seizing the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of a LATAM Airlines (LTM.SN), opens new tab Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab 787 after an incident that left more than 50 people injured. The airline and …

13-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month. Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being held for a week in detention, …

13-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s government has announced plans to enact a controversial citizenship law that has been criticized for being anti-Muslim. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will allow non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to seek citizenship. The authorities say it will help those …

13-03-2024 GAZA CITY: Nader Abu Sharekh, an Islamic preacher, has told media from Rafah that “the whole world has forsaken” Gaza. “We address Muslims in every corner of the world. How can you accept seeing Gaza people suffer in this holy month,” he said. Abu Sharekh said Gaza’s residents are …

13-03-2024 MUSCAT: The navies of China, Iran and Russia have begun joint drills in the Gulf of Oman, their fifth common military exercise in recent years. The war games starting on Tuesday coincide with heightened tensions in the region as Israel’s war on Gaza rages for a sixth month and …

13-03-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: The WHO chief says an aid mission managed to reach Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza, bringing food and medical supplies, as the Health Ministry says 2,000 medical workers in the north face famine. The US says Israel has not yet presented a plan to protect …

13-03-2024 NEW YORK: Former US President Donald Trump asked Monday to delay his hush-money trial until the Supreme Court rules on whether he has presidential immunity. Trump is currently set to face trial in New York on March 25 for his role in hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels …

12-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian government has notified the rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government. The controversial law passed in 2019 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government allowed Indian …