24-11-2024 WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate prominent investor Scott Bessent as US Treasury secretary, a key cabinet position with vast influence over economic, regulatory and international affairs. “I am most pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to serve as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United …
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24-11-2024 BLUE LAGOON, PENINSULA: A volcano on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula erupted for the seventh time since December, sending plumes of smoke into the sky and bright orange lava flowing across the region. The eruption, which began late Wednesday night with little warning, forced the evacuation of nearby Grindavik and the …
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24-11-2024 BAKU: Negotiations at the COP29 climate conference have extended into overtime after an offer by wealthy countries to provide $250bn a year in climate financing for developing countries was roundly rejected. The presidency of the global talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, released a draft finance deal on Friday, which it …
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24-11-2024 GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) says it will keep its alert for mpox at the highest level amid a surge in cases. A WHO committee made up of about a dozen independent experts made the decision at a meeting in Geneva on Friday, three months after the WHO …
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24-11-2024 BEIRUT Lebanon’s Health Ministry has accused Israel of carrying out a “series of war crimes” in its targeted killing of medical staff and destruction of health facilities after Israeli air strikes killed a hospital director in the northeast of the country and five paramedics were slain in the south. …
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23-11-2024 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: India’s Adani Group, whose billionaire chairman has been indicted for fraud by U.S. prosecutors, is facing accusations of racism at its Australian coal unit after an Aboriginal group filed a complaint with the country’s Human Rights Commission. The Nagana Yarrbayn Wangan & Jagalingou Cultural Custodians in …
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23-11-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has called an International Criminal Court war crimes arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister “outrageous”. The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu’s now sacked defence minister Yoav Gallant, and a Hamas commander, Mohammed Deif, who Israel says was killed in …
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23-11-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian opposition parties demanded a probe on Thursday into allegations of wrongdoing by the Adani Group and said they would raise the issue in parliament after its chair Gautam Adani was charged in the US over an alleged bribery scheme. Billionaire Adani was indicted by …
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23-11-2024 JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged “war crimes”. The court said on Thursday that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe Netanyahu and Gallant “intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population …
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23-11-2024 DAKAR: Senegal’s ruling Pastef party has won a resounding victory in legislative elections, securing 130 of 165 seats in parliament, according to provisional results. The win grants newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye a clear mandate to carry out ambitious reforms promised during the campaign. They include fighting corruption, …
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