30-10-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to “change the Middle East.” Joe Biden has said there’s “no going back.” But as Israeli forces escalate their attacks on the Gaza Strip and issue fresh, urgent warnings to Palestinians to get out of the way, where is …
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30-10-2023 MEXICO CITY: The Mexican Army has taken control of Acapulco, taking over the tasks of repair and aid delivery after the looting and chaos left after the devastating passage of Hurricane Otis. Otis, a category 5 cyclone and one of the strongest in the history of the Mexican Pacific …
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30-10-2023 VANCOUVER, CANADA: The Canadian intelligence has warned a close associate of assassinated Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar that the Indian government plans to harm him for his Khalistan activism. Gurmeet Singh Toor, a close friend of the slain Sikh leader, said that the Canadian intelligence visited him in August …
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By SJA Jafri 30-10-2023 QUETTA/ KARACHI: “There is nothing to be worried about. Whether they’re 12 or 18 years old, we take guys of these ages too.” A people smuggler in Quetta, who arranges illegal routes out of Pakistan, is explaining his business model to an undercover journalist. For 2.5m …
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30-10-2023 NEW YORK/ JERUSALEM: Internet monitoring service NetBlocks posted network data on X, formerly known as twitter showing that internet connectivity was being restored on Sunday. Phone lines and internet connections are slowly returning to Gaza after more than a day of almost total communications blackout. Connectivity was cut as …
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29-10-2023 NEW YORK/ LONDON/ ISTANBUL: Gaza suffered a total communications blackout Friday night, cutting off its residents from the rest of the world as a result of Israel’s bombardment, a move which was protested by global citizens on Saturday. Pro-Palestine protesters in London, New York, and Turkey took to the …
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29-10-2023 LONDON/ DUABI/ ISLAMABAD: The moon passed through part of Earth’s shadow in a partial lunar eclipse on Saturday and was visible to potentially millions of stargazers across the Eastern Hemisphere, providing an early skygazing treat just days before Halloween. The October 28 partial lunar eclipse, the last of four …
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29-10-2023 CANBERRA/ BEIJING: Australia has returned to Beijing three historical artefacts that were smuggled out of China. A dinosaur fossil that is more than 100 million years old and two Tang Dynasty figurines were handed to Chinese officials in Canberra. Police working at the Australian border had seized the items …
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29-10-2023 TEHRAN: A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after an alleged altercation with morality police earlier this month has died, state media and activists say. Armita Geravand, 16, collapsed after boarding a Tehran metro train on 1 October. Activists accused morality police of assaulting her for not …
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29-10-2023 JERUSALEM: The near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Palestinian territory risks providing cover for mass atrocities, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. Internet access and the phone network were completely cut across the Gaza Strip on Friday, nearly three weeks after Israel …
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