02-05-2025 WASHINGTON/ KYIV: Ukraine and the US on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by US President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine’s reconstruction. The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes …
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01-05-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India shut its airspace to Pakistani airlines on Wednesday, the government said, days after its nuclear-armed neighbor banned Indian airlines from flying over its territory following the killing of 26 men in an attack on tourists in Kashmir. The ban will last from April 30 …
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01-05-2025 GAZA STRIP/ THE HAGUE: Residents of Nuseirat in central Gaza describe an “earthquake” as an Israeli attack on a building killed at least eight people. At least 35 have been killed across Gaza in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry says. Day three of International Court of Justice …
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01-05-2025 NEW YORK: A United States judge has ordered the release of Columbia University student and pro-Palestine protestors Mohsen Mahdawi as a case challenging his deportation proceeds. In Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday, US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford ruled Mahdawi could leave the Northwest State Correctional Facility, where he had been …
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01-05-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s information minister says that the country has ‘credible intelligence’ that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours. Attaullah Tarar’s comments come after India accused Pakistan of supporting militants behind an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists …
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01-05-2025 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has condemned the arrest of a prominent local journalist by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Ali al-Samoudi, who has worked extensively with Western media was detained during a raid on his son’s home in the northern city of Jenin early …
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01-05-2025 SYDNEY: Two cookbook authors have accused TikTok influencer Brooke Bellamy of copying their recipes. Nagi Maehashi, the Australian founder of popular food website RecipeTin Eats, said Ms Bellamy’s cookbook contains recipes with “word-for-word similarities to mine”. Bellamy, who owns the popular Brooki Bakehouse, has rejected her allegations, saying her …
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01-05-2025 PRETORIA: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a judicial inquiry into allegations of political interference in the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes. The announcement comes three decades after the end of white-minority rule and after a group of survivors and victims’ relatives sued Ramaphosa’s government over a perceived lack …
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30-04-2025 PYONGYANG: North Korea has confirmed for the first time that it sent troops to Russia to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine, and that its forces had contributed to taking back Russian territory held by Ukraine’s military in the Kursk region. In a statement provided to North Korea’s official Korean …
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30-04-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD/ SRINAGAR: India said on Monday it had responded to ‘unprovoked’ small arms firing from Pakistan along the de facto border for the fourth consecutive night, as it deepens its search for militants in the region following last week’s deadly attack on tourists …
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