03-11-2024 TEHRAN: The US and Israel “will definitely receive a crushing response”, Iran’s supreme leader has said, following an Israeli attack on Iran a week ago. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the comments while speaking to students on Saturday ahead of the 45th anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US …
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03-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ HARRISBURG: After Donald Trump’s bid to overturn his 2020 election loss, an advocacy group was launched to take on the lawyers who aided in his doomed effort, hitting them with more than 80 ethics complaints. With Trump again the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, his allies have …
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03-11-2024 LONDON: The BBC has been accused by more than 100 of its staff of giving Israel favorable coverage in its reporting of the war on Gaza and criticized its lack of “accurate evidence-based journalism”. A letter sent to the broadcaster’s director general, Tim Davie, and CEO Deborah Turness on …
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03-11-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has denied that Home Minister Amit Shah plotted to target Sikh activists on Canadian soil as it criticized Canada over the “absurd and baseless” allegations. Shah, 60, oversees India’s internal security forces as home minister. He is viewed as the country’s second-most powerful person …
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03-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The killing of journalists worldwide surged in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, with a majority of cases unsolved, the United Nations has said. On average, one journalist was killed every four days, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a report released …
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03-11-2024 GAZA STRIP/ BEIRUT: At least 55 people have been killed and 192 others injured across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. At least 25 towns and villages in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley came under heavy Israeli air attacks on Friday, killing dozens of people, according …
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03-11-2024 MADRID: Spain is sending 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia after deadly floods this week, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced. In a televised address on Saturday, Sanchez said the disaster was the second-deadliest flood in Europe this century and that Spain …
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03-11-2024 LONDON: Kemi Badenoch has won the race to become the new leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, pledging to return it to its founding principles and win back voters after its worst election defeat in July. Badenoch, 44, came out on top in the two-horse race with former …
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02-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip during last 24 hours, mostly in the north where one attack hit a hospital, torching medical supplies and disrupting operations, the enclave’s health officials said. Israel’s military has accused the Palestinian militant group …
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02-11-2024 NEW YORK: If Elon Musk joins the United States government following a Donald Trump victory in the presidential election, he will be the latest in a succession of billionaire businesspeople to hold public office. From the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg …
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