04-02-2026 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: United States President Donald Trump claims India will now buy Venezuelan oil after tussles last year over the South Asian country’s significant imports of Russian crude. “India is coming in, and they’re going to be buying Venezuelan oil as opposed to buying it from Iran. So, …
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03-02-2026 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report QUETTA/ KARACHI: A series of gun and bomb attacks across Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province killed 18 civilians and 15 security service personnel, the country’s military says. Security forces responding to the violence killed at least 147 attackers, the military said. The Balochistan Liberation …
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03-02-2026 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israel is set to partially reopen the Rafah crossing between the war-devastated Gaza Strip and Egypt on Sunday, following months of urging from humanitarian organizations, though access will be limited to the movement of people. The reopening comes amid ongoing violence in the Palestinian territory, with …
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03-02-2026 OSLO: When Marius Borg Hoiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His mother Crown Princess Mette-Marit will not be there, nor will the man she …
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03-02-2026 TEHRAN/ BRUSSELS: Iran considers as “terrorist groups” the armies of European Union (EU) countries that listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the bloc’s list of terrorist organizations, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Sunday. The EU marked a symbolic shift in its approach to Iran’s leadership on …
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03-02-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the 2026/2027 budget to parliament on Sunday aiming to lift manufacturing and generate jobs in the world’s most populous country. * Finance Minister says India faces disruptive external environment, must stay deeply integrated with global markets * Says to …
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03-02-2026 NEW YORK: Newly released investigative files concerning the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have cast more scrutiny on his connections with some of the US’s wealthiest and most powerful men, including moguls Bill Gates and Elon Musk. The tranche of documents released by the US Department of …
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03-02-2026 BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: Iraq’s main Shia alliance, which holds a parliamentary majority, has reiterated its support for reinstating Nouri al-Maliki as prime minister, despite United States President Donald Trump threatening to end US support to the country. The Coordination Framework said in a statement on Saturday that it “reiterates its …
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02-02-2026 TEHRAN: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that United States President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Europe stirred tensions by “provoking” people during the recent protests that gripped the country. “They equipped and brought a number of innocent people along with this movement and poured them …
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02-02-2026 KHARTOUM: Mohamed Ibrahim, a Sudanese doctor, feared he would not live to see the sun go down. “All around we saw people running and falling to the ground in front of us,” the 28-year-old physician said, according to a report by media on Saturday. Ibrahim was recounting the assault …
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