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12-11-2024 RIYADH/ TEHRAN: Saudi Arabia’s top military official has visited Tehran for talks with Iranian officials in a rare high-level meeting since the countries restored ties last year, Iran’s state media reported, General Chief of Staff Fayyad al-Ruwaili of the Saudi armed forces met his Iranian counterpart, General Mohammad Bagheri, …

12-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: A suspected rebel has been killed in a gunfight with security forces in the Indian-administered Kashmir, the army said, days after rebels killed two members of a government-backed militia. “One terrorist has been neutralised by the security forces (in Zabarwan forest near …

12-11-2024 PORT LOUIS: People in Mauritius have casted their ballots in the parliamentary election that has been clouded by a wire-tapping scandal. Polls opened at 7am (03:00 GMT) and closed at 6pm (14:00 GMT) on Sunday in the 12th election since independence from the United Kingdom in 1968. Results are …

12-11-2024 GAZA/ BEIRUT. DAMASCUS: Palestinians and Lebanese mourned their dead after Israeli forces killed 36 people in a single attack on Jabalia in northern Gaza and 23 people in another strike on the village of Almat, north of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. Medical sources in Gaza said Israeli forces killed at …

11-11-2024 BEIJING/ JAKARTA: Chinese President Xi Jinping signed multiple cooperation deals with his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto on Saturday, Chinese state TV CCTV reported, as the two countries seek increased partnerships in key areas. The deals covered issues including water conservation, maritime resources and mining, the report said, and come …

11-11-2024 BAKU/ KABUL: Afghan Taliban officials will attend a major United Nations climate conference that starts next week, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time they have attended since the former insurgents took power in 2021. The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku will be among …

11-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Consumer price inflation in India climbed to a 14-month high of 5.81% in October primarily due to a spike in vegetable and edible oil prices, a Reuters poll of economists predicted, a shade below the central bank’s tolerance threshold of 6.0%. Food …

11-11-2024 TEHRAN/ DUBAI: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi denied U.S. charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump and called on Saturday for confidence-building between the two hostile countries. “Now … a new scenario is fabricated … as a killer does not exist in reality, …

11-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ REHOBOTH BEACH: US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday at the White House on Biden’s invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday. Trump will take office on Jan. 20 after defeating current Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential election. …

11-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: Flooding in South Sudan has displaced more than 379,000 people, according to a United Nations update that warned about a surge in malaria. Aid agencies have said the world’s youngest country, highly vulnerable to climate change, is in the grip of its worst flooding in decades, …