10-12-2022 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and China showcased deepening ties with a series of strategic deals on Thursday during a visit by President Xi Jinping, including one with tech giant Huawei, whose growing foray into the Gulf region has raised US security concerns. King Salman signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership agreement” …
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10-12-2022 NEW YORK: Cleaners at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco have told the BBC they were sacked without severance pay. One of them told the BBC a member of Elon Musk’s team had said their jobs would be replaced by robots. A California state senator said Musk was treating the …
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10-12-2022 TOKYO/ LONDON: Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a ground-breaking partnership spanning Europe and Asia that is Japan’s first major industrial defence collaboration beyond the United States since World War Two. The deal, which Reuters reported in July, aims to put an advanced …
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10-12-2022 LONDON: One day after Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) reported on Bangladesh’s notorious Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) receiving cybersecurity and surveillance training in the UK, it can reveal that nine of its members also received goods and training in at least two European Union countries in 2022. The RAB …
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10-12-2022 MOSCOW: Russian firefighters have put out a massive blaze that engulfed one of the largest shopping centres in a suburb of the capital, Moscow, leading to the collapse of part of the structure and one death. The fire early on Friday spread over an area of about 7,000 square …
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09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The Taliban flogged 27 Afghans, including women, in front of a large crowd Thursday, a day after publicly executing a convicted murderer for the first time since they returned to power last year. Their chief spokesman also pushed back …
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09-12-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ GUJARAT: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading for a record-breaking landslide victory in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat for a seventh straight term. The right-wing party is leading in 156 of the 182 seats in the state assembly, according to …
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09-12-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: The US State Department on Wednesday warned of action if international terrorists regroup in Afghanistan, fearing the Taliban-ruled country may become a haven for militants again. The concerns were raised during a press briefing by the State Department …
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09-12-2022 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ QUEENSLAND: The complete head and body of an ancient marine reptile with “flippers like a turtle and long neck like a giraffe” has been uncovered in Queensland in what scientists say is a rare discovery. Paleontologists unearthed the complete fossil of the plesiosaur near the remote …
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09-12-2022 INDIANAPOLIS: The popular social media app TikTok has been sued by the US state of Indiana. Its attorney general Todd Rokita has accused TikTok’s parent company ByteDance of violating the state’s consumer protections laws. The state alleges that the app fails to safeguard young people and privacy. However, TikTok …
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