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27-10-2024 VATICAN CITY: The Vatican is cutting the already shrinking pay packages of cardinals who head the Catholic Church’s top offices in Rome by about 10% or 500 euros ($540) a month as the pope pursues a “zero deficit” agenda of greater thrift. The cardinals will no longer receive two …

27-10-2024 APIA: Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla flew out of Samoa on Saturday, after a visit in which the monarch acknowledged the Commonwealth’s “painful” history, amid a push for former colonial powers to pay reparations for their role in transatlantic slavery. Representatives of 56 countries, most with roots in …

27-10-2024 JOHANNESBURG: South African fashion and homewares retailer TFG (TFGJ.J), opens new tab has bought UK-based fashion and lifestyle retailer White Stuff, it said on Friday, adding the deal will help it reach “critical mass”. The acquisition was made through the London subsidiary of TFG, which has a portfolio of …

27-10-2024 TOKYO: Japan’s voters could end more than a decade of Liberal Democratic Party dominance on Sunday, forcing the ruling party into power-sharing deals that could undermine the country’s leadership. The general election, nine days before the US chooses a new president, adds uncertainty to an already turbulent geopolitical landscape …

26-10-2024 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM: The Israeli army says it is conducting strikes on military targets in Iran in response to what it said were months of attacks by Iran and its proxies in the region. There has been no immediate comment from Iran. Several explosions have been reported around Tehran. Air …

26-10-2024 APIA, SAMOA: King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its “painful” history, as African and Caribbean nations push for reparations for Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Representatives of 56 countries, most with roots in Britain’s empire, are attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that began in …

26-10-2024 NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India and China have begun implementing an agreement to end a military standoff on their disputed Himalayan border, the two sides said on Friday, in the biggest thaw between the Asian giants since deadly clashes between their armies four years ago. Troops who were eyeball-to-eyeball at …

26-10-2024 GAZA STRIP: Negotiations over a potential Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal are set to resume in Doha in the coming days, officials from the US, Israel and Qatar have said. A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said an Israeli delegation will travel to Qatar on Sunday. …

26-10-2024 TBILISI: Georgians know all about Russia’s wars. Several years before Russia invaded Ukraine, its army launched a five-day war in August 2008. The city of Gori was bombed and occupied, and a fierce battle further north in Shindisi left the station destroyed and the railway abandoned. So when the …

26-10-2024 BEIRUT: Three Lebanese journalists have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a building known to be housing reporters in south-eastern Lebanon, witnesses have told media. The attack was carried out on a guesthouse in a compound in Hasbaya being used by more than a dozen journalists from …