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03-04-2023 MEXICO CITY: A new report has identified failures in an investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, one of the most high-profile mass kidnappings in recent history. The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), a panel of experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, …

03-04-2023 BOGOTA: Farmers in parts of Colombia say sales of coca, the raw ingredient used to make cocaine, have collapsed after a recent surge in production of the illicit drug. “We’ve seen a complete collapse of buyers,” said Andres Rojas, a coca farmer in the Catatumbo region who advocates for …

03-04-2023 VIRGINIA: In a highly unusual ruling, a state court judge in Virginia has voided a United States Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan more than a year after he took the three-year-old girl away from the Afghan couple raising her but the girl’s future remains uncertain. For now, …

03-04-2023 DAMASCUS/ JERUSLEM: Israel has launched air raids on outposts in Syria’s Homs province, wounding at least five soldiers, according to the Syrian defence ministry. The raids early on Sunday were the third in recent days and came only a day after another attack on Friday that killed two Iranian …

02-04-2023 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump Jr, the son of former US president Donald Trump, has celebrated the early release of capitol rioter Jacob Chansley aja QAnon Shaman. A reintegration program has accepted QAnon Shaman, who was sentenced to one of the longest terms ever given to a rioter at the US …

02-04-2023 CAIRO: Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in Cairo on Saturday, a first since Syria’s civil war broke out over a decade ago, Shoukry’s office said. The meeting comes amid amplified Arab engagement with the Damascus government which has been politically isolated in …

02-04-2023 TEHRAN: President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the hijab is “a legal matter” in Iran after a viral video appeared to show a man throwing yoghurt at two uncovered women in a shop near a holy Shia Muslim city. Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their …

02-04-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW YORK/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent watchdog body on Friday urged the Taliban-led Kabul government to review its decision to allow women-run Radio Sada-e-Banowan to continue its work and called on the authorities to stop the crackdown against the …

02-04-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council’s 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating pattern. The last time Russia had the presidency, February 2022, it launched a …

02-04-2023 BERLIN: The UK and Germany should fill the next chapters of their relationship “with the restless pursuit of a better tomorrow”, King Charles has said. His speech, in both English and German, was the first by a British monarch to the German parliament and was met with a standing …