23-11-2025 GAZA STRIP: Urgent questions are being raised over a patchwork of armed groups that have emerged to fight Hamas in Gaza over recent months. They include groups based around family clans, criminal gangs and new militia, some of which are backed by Israel, as its prime minister recently admitted. …
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23-11-2025 BRASILIA: All mention of fossil fuels, by far the largest contributor to climate change, has been dropped from the draft deal under negotiation as the COP30 UN climate talks in Belem, Brazil enter their final stretch. Draft agreements at the meeting of nearly 200 countries usually go through multiple …
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22-11-2025 WASHINGTON: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with members of Congress at the US Capitol on Wednesday, on the second day of a visit to Washington that has aimed to tout stronger-than-ever economic and security ties while brushing off scrutiny of his human rights record. President Donald Trump …
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22-11-2025 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump signed legislation on Wednesday ordering the Justice Department to release documents from its long-running investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein files eagerly sought by both his political opponents and members of his own base who have pressed for greater transparency in the case. The material …
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22-11-2025 NEW DELHI: The US State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missile system and Excalibur guided artillery munitions worth $93 million to India, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said on Wednesday. The purchase of US defence equipment is India’s first under Washington’s foreign military sales …
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22-11-2025 ABUJA: Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has postponed his trip to South Africa for the Group of 20 summit, promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls abducted by armed men earlier this week. The president’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, said in a statement on Wednesday that Tinubu suspended his departure …
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22-11-2025 LONDON: Nearly 12,000 children were killed or injured in conflicts worldwide last year, of which 70 percent were a result of explosives, the United Kingdom-based charity Save the Children has said, with those in Gaza suffering the most from Israeli attacks. This was the highest number since records began …
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22-11-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian-administered Kashmir, on the night of September 2, Shabir Ahmad’s home was swallowed by mud and swept into the river after relentless rains triggered a landslide in Sarh village in Indian-administered Kashmiri’s Reasi district. “I had been building my house brick by brick since 2016. …
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22-11-2025 MADRID: In a lecture he delivered in Buenos Aires in 1933, Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain’s most celebrated poet and playwright, observed that “a dead man in Spain is more alive when dead than anywhere else in the world; his profile hurts like a razor’s edge.” Although the remark was …
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21-11-2025 DUBAI: An Indian-made fighter jet has gone down in flames at the Dubai Airshow, killing the pilot in the second known crash of the aircraft. The HAL Tejas, a combat aircraft, crashed just after 2pm local time (10:00 GMT) on Friday during a demonstration for a crowd of spectators …
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