24-09-2022 HAMILTON, BERMUDA: Hurricane Fiona pounded the Atlantic island of Bermuda with heavy rain and winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward eastern Canada, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in Canadian history. Fiona had already battered a series of Caribbean islands earlier in …
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24-09-2022 WASHINGTON: The Biden administration has issued a license to relax sanctions on internet services in Iran, saying the move aims to “support the free flow of information” for Iranians amid widespread anti-government protests. The US Treasury Department said on Friday that the decision comes in response to the Iranian …
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24-09-2022 LONDON: The British government has unveiled a new mini-budget in the parliament, intending to cut household taxes and energy bills while driving economic growth. In what represents the most significant tax cut budget since 1972, the new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng’s sweeping new budget will see cuts to national …
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24-09-2022 DAMASCUS/ TRIPOLI: Dozens of people have died after a boat carrying migrants and refugees from Lebanon capsized off Syria’s coast, according to the Syrian and Lebanese governments. On Friday, the Lebanese transport minister said that 71 people had died in Thursday’s disaster. The Syrian government had previously said that …
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24-09-2022 BRAMPTON/ LONDON: Voicing serious “concerns” over what it called “anti-Indian-state activities”, Narendra Modi’s government has protested with Canada for allowing Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) to organise a Khalistan Referendum in the Canadian city of Brampton on September 18, which drew tens of thousands of local Sikhs. Last week Geo.tv …
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23-09-2022 LONDON/ DOHA: Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has obtained the largest leak in British political history, exposing how unelected officials undermined democracy within the Labour Party. The leaked data comprises 500 gigabytes of documents, emails, video and audio files from the Labour Party dating from 1998 to 2021. The …
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23-09-2022 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: World leaders at the United Nations have called for Moscow to be held accountable for human rights violations in Ukraine as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov defended his country’s actions in the seven-month war. Addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council on alleged atrocities committed in …
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23-09-2022 NEW YORK/ TEHRAN/ DUBAI: President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran delivered his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday during which he stressed Iran seeks justice in the world while emphasizing that its atomic program is totally peaceful. The Iranian president started his speech by pointing out that …
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23-09-2022 Israel has agreed to sell an advanced air defence system to the United Arab Emirates, two sources familiar with the matter said, in the first such known deal between them since they forged ties in 2020. The deal reinforces how, for some Arab states, resolving the decades-long Israel-Palestinian conflict …
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23-09-2022 BEIJING: The central Chinese province of Jiangxi has declared a water supply “red alert” for the first time as a prolonged drought dried up much of the water in the country’s biggest lake. The provincial government said on Friday that water levels in Poyang Lake, usually a flood outlet …
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