31-10-2024 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI: The Canadian government alleged on Tuesday that Indian Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah, a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was behind the plots to target Sikh separatists on Canadian soil. The Indian government did not immediately respond but has dismissed Canada’s prior accusations …
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31-10-2024 WASHINGTON/ GAZA CITY: At least 93 people are dead or missing after an Israeli air strike on the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says, in an attack that the United States called “horrifying”. Rescuers said a five-storey residential building was hit, and videos …
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31-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Police in Australia say they have recovered around 40,000 limited-edition coins based on the hit children’s television show Bluey. It was reported in July that 63,000 of the coins produced by the Australian Mint had been stolen from a warehouse in Western Sydney, about …
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31-10-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has called on the Georgian government to respond to international concern at the scale of violations in Saturday’s election and repeal recent Russian-style laws. The Georgian Dream government in the South Caucasus state, which borders Russia, claimed a fourth term in power after election …
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31-10-2024 BEIRUT: The sound of war is loud at night in Beirut’s eastern Achrafieh neighborhood. Residents can hear Israeli air strikes hitting the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, known as Dahieh. Some can even see the explosions lighting up the sky from their balconies. However, on the streets it is quiet. …
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31-10-2024 BARCELONA: At least 62 people have died in eastern Spain after flash floods swept away cars, turned village streets into rivers and disrupted rail lines and highways in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory. Emergency services in the eastern region of Valencia confirmed …
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30-10-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said the Israeli parliament’s decision to ban his organization increases the suffering of Palestinians and is “nothing less than collective punishment”. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least 60 people have been killed …
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30-10-2024 UNITED NATIONS: National pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions fall significantly short of those needed to limit catastrophic global warming, says the United Nations before climate change negotiations next month. The “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) are enough to cut global emissions by 2.6 percent from 2019 to 2030, up …
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30-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez have inaugurated India’s first private military aircraft plant, boosting New Delhi’s ambitions of growing local manufacturing in its defence and aerospace industries. Sanchez was welcomed to India on Monday with a flower-filled …
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30-10-2024 GLAND, SWITZERLAND: More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The report published on Monday has …
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