04-02-2025 BERLIN: Sabrina Carpenter has won the first Grammy Award of 2025, taking home best pop solo performance for her percolating summer anthem, Espresso. British star Charli XCX also won a clutch of early prizes including best dance/pop album for her razor sharp club album Brat; and best dance/pop song …
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04-02-2025 WASHINGTON/ PANAMA CITY: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has demanded that Panama make “immediate changes” to what he calls the “influence and control” of China over the Panama Canal. America’s top diplomat said Panama must act or the US would take necessary measures to protect its rights under …
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03-02-2025 GAZA STRIP: Dozens of Palestinians released from Israeli jails show signs of torture and starvation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said following the latest batch that was released on Saturday. As part of ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails. They emerged wearing stained …
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03-02-2025 Bureau Report SYDNEY: One person died on Sunday in Australia’s north Queensland state in heavy flooding, authorities said, urging thousands of people to move to higher ground due to torrential rains. Queensland authorities said major flooding was underway in coastal Hinchinbrook Shire, a locality of around 11,000 people located …
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03-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India plans to cut personal income tax rates to boost middle-class spending power, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday, as she announced an annual budget that also sought to increase private investment to strengthen growth. The world’s fifth-largest economy is expected to post its …
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03-02-2025 TOKYO: Japan is considering offering support for a $44 billion gas pipeline in Alaska as it seeks to court US President Donald Trump and forestall potential trade friction, according to three officials familiar with the matter. Officials in Tokyo expect Trump may raise the project, which he has said …
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03-02-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: At least 18 paramilitary soldiers and 24 armed attackers have been killed in two related incidents in southwestern Pakistan, according to officials and local media reports, as sectarian, ethnic and separatist violence escalates in the region. Pakistan’s military on Saturday said fighters tried to set up …
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03-02-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and 10% on goods from China starting on Tuesday, risking a new trade war that economists say could slow global growth and reignite inflation. Trump signed three separate executive orders on the tariffs after …
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03-02-2025 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious and deadly ever conducted. Enumerators and their heavily armed guards from Myanmar’s military were subject to repeated attacks from opposition groups, as they stumbled through a failed attempt to document the country’s population between October and December last year. …
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02-02-2025 GAZA/ CAIRO: Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest stage of a truce aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national, and Yarden Bibas were …
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