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07-08-2024 NEW YORK: A judge in the United States has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly for its search engine, exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation. Monday’s landmark decision that Google broke antitrust law marks the first major success for US …

06-08-2024 KHARTOUM: Sudan on Sunday denied the existence of famine in North Darfur’s Zamzam camp for internally displaced people, while an aid group said there was a risk of a severe shortage of special food designed to treat malnourished children in the camp. On Thursday, a global food monitor found …

06-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani, 62, plans to step down at the age of 70 and shift control to his sons and their cousins in the early 2030s, he told Bloomberg News in an interview published on Monday. When Adani retires, his four …

06-08-2024 SINGAPORE: Oil prices hovered at eight-month lows on Monday as fears of a recession in the United States, the world’s top oil consumer, offset concerns that escalating tensions in the Middle East may affect supplies from the largest producing region. Brent crude futures inched down 4 cents, or 0.1%, …

06-08-2024 LONDON/ Far-right demonstrators have vandalized a hotel housing asylum seekers in the northern England town of Rotherham, as the United Kingdom grapples with its worst riots in 13 years. On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered by a Holiday Inn Express hotel used to house asylum seekers near Rotherham, before …

06-08-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has now been behind bars for a year although there are times you would barely know it. Khan is still the dominant force of Pakistan’s opposition politics; his name still in the papers and the courts. His social …

06-08-2024 PARIS: French prosecutors have opened an investigation into death threats made against the organizers of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. On Saturday artistic director Thomas Jolly, ceremonies director Thierry Reboul and Alexandre Billard of events agency Ubi Bene, filed a complaint for death threats. Last month, French DJ Barbara …

06-08-2024 GAZA CITY: Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in Israeli air strikes on two schools in Gaza, according to Palestinian rescuers and news outlets. Some of those killed were displaced people sheltering at the schools, rescuers said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the strikes, saying it had …

06-08-2024 DHAKA: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned after weeks of deadly anti-government protests, putting an end to her more than two decades dominating the country’s politics. Hasina, 76, fled the country, reportedly landing in India on Monday. Jubilant crowds took to the streets to celebrate the news, with …

05-08-2024 LONDON/ LIVERPOOL/ BELFAST: Violent disorder swept across several British cities on Saturday, injuring police and damaging property in the most widespread rioting in the country for 13 years, following the murder of three young girls in northwest England. Riots involving hundreds of anti-immigration protesters have erupted in towns and …