27-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ NAGPUR: Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies by attending classes every weekday for the past two months in his home city of Nagpur in western India. Nagose bought and sold stock …
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27-02-2025 GAZA STRIP: Dozens of babies have died while several severely ill in the past two weeks in Gaza due to the cold weather and lack of adequate shelter and heating, Palestinian medics and health officials say. Doctors at the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society hospital in Gaza City, in the …
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27-02-2025 KYIV: A senior Ukrainian official says the US and Ukraine have agreed the terms of a minerals deal. It contains “a number of good amendments,” the official tells media, though details about what’s included in the revised draft remain unclear. US President Donald Trump suggests his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr …
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27-02-2025 Warning: This article contains distressing content, including descriptions of rape, from the start. KHARTOUM: “He told me that if I tried to escape, he would kill me.” Pascaline, 22, recalls the words of her rapist at a prison in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, …
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27-02-2025 PRETORIA: A South African court has dismissed claims of a white genocide in the country as “clearly imagined” and “not real”, undermining comments made by US President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk. The ruling came as the court blocked a wealthy benefactor’s donation to white supremacist group …
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27-02-2025 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is open to offering the US access to rare minerals, including from Russian-occupied Ukraine. This comes after US President Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed for Ukraine to give up some of its minerals in exchange for support, in a deal which is …
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26-02-2025 JERUSALEM/ DAMASCUS: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded the complete demilitarization of much of southern Syria. It is an announcement that could make conflict between Israel and the new leadership in Syria, after the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad, more likely. In a speech to Israeli military cadets …
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26-02-2025 SINGAPORE CITY: Singapore’s biggest bank says it expects to cut 4,000 roles over the next three years as artificial intelligence (AI) takes on more work currently done by humans. “The reduction in workforce will come from natural attrition as temporary and contract roles roll off over the next few …
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26-02-2025 OTTAWA: The leading candidates vying to replace Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent considerable time during a televised debate on Monday discussing the need to stand up to US President Donald Trump. The next election must be held by October 20 this year and until recently the official opposition …
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26-02-2025 NEW DELHI: India and Britain will aim to more than double bilateral trade in a decade, Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday, as the two countries resumed trade talks under the shadow of tariff threats from US President Donald Trump. The countries would speed up talks on …
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