10-02-2025 JERUSALEM/ CAIRO/ GAZA: Hamas has freed three Israeli hostages in Gaza, while Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange as part of an internationally brokered ceasefire deal. The three hostages Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Or Levy were handed over to the Red Cross on Saturday …
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10-02-2025 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) from accessing the personal financial data of millions of Americans in Treasury Department records, according to court documents. US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction on Saturday to prohibit access, ordering …
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10-02-2025 KINSHASA: Leaders from east and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire to end the deadly fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At a crisis summit in Tanzania, the Southern African Development Community and East African Community (EAC) blocs urged all warring parties to hold …
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09-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party will form the government in Indian capital Delhi for the first time in 27 years as it scripted an impressive election victory. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won or is leading in 48 seats in the 70-member legislative assembly, …
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09-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SALEMPURA/ WASHIGTON: It took Daler Singh six months and $45,000 to reach the United States last month without paperwork. Within three weeks of his arrival, he was sent back to his native India on a military plane, his hands and legs cuffed throughout …
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09-02-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said he is revoking Joe Biden’s security clearance and access to daily intelligence briefings, after his predecessor did the same to him four years ago. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote in a …
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09-02-2025 GAZA STRIP/ CAIRO: Hamas has released the names of the next hostages to be freed on Saturday in the Gaza Strip in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. They are male civilians Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Or Levy. So far, 18 hostages have been freed since …
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09-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown. Indian lawmakers demonstrated outside parliament on Thursday, some wearing …
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09-02-2025 TEHRAN: Iran hit out at the United States for imposing new sanctions against its oil industry, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned against mooted talks with Washington. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Friday condemned the sanctions, announced the …
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09-02-2025 JERUSALEM: Israel’s defence minister has told its military to prepare a plan to “allow any resident of Gaza who wishes to leave to do so”, in line with President Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to take over the territory and resettle its 2.1 million Palestinians elsewhere. Israel Katz …
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