23-07-2025 TOKYO: South Korean cabbage, Australian lettuce, Japanese rice, Brazilian coffee and Ghanaian cocoa are among the many foods that have been hit by price hikes following extreme climate events since 2022, a team of international scientists has found. The research released on Monday cites, among other examples, a 280 …
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23-07-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies QUETTA: Pakistani authorities have arrested at least 13 individuals, including a tribal leader, in connection with the killing of a couple in the southwestern province of Balochistan. The arrests followed nationwide outrage over a video depicting the murders went viral on social media, with …
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23-07-2025 NEW YORK: A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft server software has compromised about 100 different organizations over the weekend. Two of the organizations that helped uncover the attack announced their findings on Monday. On Saturday, Microsoft issued an alert about “active attacks” on self-hosted SharePoint servers, which are …
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23-07-2025 LONDON/ PARIS/ OTTAWA: More than two dozen countries have called for an immediate end to the war on Gaza, saying that suffering there had “reached new depths” in the latest sign of allies’ sharpening language as Israel’s international isolation deepens. The statement on Monday came after more than 21 …
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22-07-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian government’s top think tank has proposed easing rules that de facto require extra scrutiny for investments by Chinese companies, arguing that the rules have meant delays for some sizeable deals, three government sources said. Currently, all investment by Chinese entities in …
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22-07-2025 DAMASCUS/ JERUSALEM: Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire, the US envoy to Turkey said on Friday, after days of bloodshed in the predominantly Druze area that has killed over 300 people. Israel launched airstrikes in Damascus and hit government forces in the south, demanding they withdraw and …
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22-07-2025 LJUBLJANA: Slovenia’s parliament has passed a law giving terminally-ill adults the right to end their lives, after a majority of voters backed the move in a referendum. Lawmakers approved the bill on Friday, with 50 votes in favour, 34 against and three abstentions, meaning that assisted dying will be …
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22-07-2025 UNITED NATIONS: More than 11 million refugees risk losing access to humanitarian aid owing to a “dramatic” funding crisis, according to the United Nations refugee agency. The extent of UNHCR’s funding shortfall was revealed in a report released on Friday, which said it had so far received only 23 …
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22-07-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian tax authorities and market regulator are considering widening their probe of United States trading giant Jane Street Group to investigate it for tax evasion in addition to an earlier charge of price rigging in the Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark Sensex, according to media reports. …
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22-07-2025 LONDON: Police in the United Kingdom have arrested more than 100 people at protests across the country calling for a ban on campaign group Palestine Action to be reversed. Demonstrations took place on Saturday in Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Truro and London as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend …
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