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21-01-2023 DAVOS: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Thursday, saying it was “absurd” to listen to them while they fueled “the destruction of the planet”. Two days after police briefly detained her at a protest against a …

21-01-2023 LIMA: Firefighters have been working to put out a raging inferno that broke out in a building near a protest site in Peru’s capital Lima where police fired tear gas as thousands of protesters poured into the city to demand the removal of President Dina Boluarte. Demonstrators gathered on …

21-01-2023 TEHRAN: Iran condemned on Thursday a European Parliament call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, which would pave the way for sanctions against the powerful military force. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian “strongly criticized the emotional approach of the European Parliament and labelled the …

20-01-2023 WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is hosting Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Washington, DC for a meeting expected to be dominated by a potential sale of F-16 fighter jets and Turkey’s refusal to approve Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession. The meeting on Wednesday represented the …

20-01-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KERALA: An Indian state minister’s comments on culling tigers has sparked a debate on conservation. AK Saseendran, wildlife minister in Kerala, was reported as saying that his government may consider solutions including sterilization or culling to check tiger numbers in the state. He …

20-01-2023 PARIS: President Macron’s reform program faces a make-or-break moment, as French unions stage a day of mass strikes and protests on Thursday against his plans to push back the age of retirement. A new bill due to go through parliament will raise the official age at which people can …

20-01-2023 KYIV/ BERLIN: Ukraine pleaded on Thursday for the West to finally send it heavy tanks as the defence chiefs of the United States and Germany headed for a showdown over weapons Kyiv says could decide the fate of the war. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Germany on …

20-01-2023 JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH/ OCCUPIED WEST BANK: The second longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, Maher Younis, has been released after serving four decades in Israeli prisons. Maher, 65, was released from Eshel prison near Beer Sabe’ (Beer Sheva) in southern Israel just before 7am (04:00 GMT) on Thursday. He was arrested in 1983 …

20-01-2023 WASHINGTON: US authorities said on Wednesday that they had arrested the owner of China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato for alleged money laundering, hailing the move as a global “blow to the crypto crime ecosystem.” Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, a Russian living in Shenzhen, China, was held in Miami overnight and was …

20-01-2023 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has issued a statement expressing “concern” after Guatemala announced it would investigate a former anti-corruption investigator assigned to the country. Ivan Velasquez, a Colombian who led the UN’s anti-corruption efforts in Guatemala from 2013 to 2019, is under investigation for “illegal, arbitrary and abusive …