10-01-2025 BERLIN/ PARIS: Germany and France have warned Donald Trump against threatening Greenland, after the US president-elect refused to rule out using military force to seize Denmark’s autonomous territory. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said “the principle of the inviolability of borders applies to every country… no matter whether it’s a …
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10-01-2025 TEHRAN/ ROME: An Italian journalist has returned to Rome after spending weeks in an Iranian jail. Cecilia Sala, 29, was arrested on 19 December, three days after an Iranian engineer was detained by Italian authorities in Milan on suspicion of supplying drone technology that led to the deaths of …
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10-01-2025 LOS ANGELES: As five wildfires blaze in Los Angeles County which is home to an estimated 75,312 people experiencing homelessness, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has issued the following statement from its CEO, Va Lecia Adams Kellum: Since Friday, LAHSA outreach teams have been providing proactive fire education …
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09-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: Attacks by Israel’s army on war-battered Gaza continue with at least 51 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, including infants, young children, and women. US President-elect Donald Trump demands that Hamas releases Israeli captives held in Gaza by the time …
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09-01-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Microsoft, opens new tab will spend $3 billion to expand its Azure cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) capacity in India, CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday, doubling down on a country with tech expertise and low costs to help turn such investments …
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09-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces killed at least 49 Palestinians in Gaza over the past day, according to medical sources, including five children in attacks on tents in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi. US President-elect Donald Trump demands that Hamas releases Israeli captives held in Gaza, by the time …
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09-01-2025 NEW YORK: Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style “community notes” where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. In a video posted alongside a blog post by the company on Tuesday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg …
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09-01-2025 OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit back at Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to absorb Canada into the US saying there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell” to join the two. President-elect Trump has in recent weeks repeatedly needled Canada about it becoming the 51st …
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09-01-2025 LHASA: Rescuers searched into the night for survivors after a major earthquake killed at least 126 people and damaged more than 3,000 buildings in a remote part of the Chinese region of Tibet, near Everest. Another 188 people were injured after the earthquake hit the foothills of the Himalayas …
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09-01-2025 LONDON: Few European leaders have felt the lash of Elon Musk’s social media outbursts more than Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The tech-billionaire owner of X has called him an “incompetent fool” and urged him to resign. On Thursday Musk will use his platform to host Alice Weidel, the head …
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