08-01-2024 BEIJING: China has announced sanctions against five US arms manufacturers over weapons sales to Taiwan. Beijing claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve its goals, while the United States is required by law to provide Taiwan …
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08-01-2024 IBADAN, NIGERIA: A wave of red corrugated roofs welcomes visitors to the city of Ibadan in southwest Nigeria. Inside the 200-year-old city’s centre, incessant traffic winds through narrow, unpaved roads and past crowded open-air markets. At the edge of the city, Opeyemi Dasola’s home, a square fortress of cement, …
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08-01-2024 GAZA CITY/ WEST BANK: Two more journalists martyred after their vehicle is targeted in an Israeli air strike, including the son of a senior journalist Wael Dahdouh. At least six Palestinians killed in an Israeli drone attack on Jenin in the occupied West Bank while dozens more innocent Palestinians …
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08-01-2024 VIRGINIA/ CAROLINA: A winter storm is plowing through the mid-Atlantic and Northeast Saturday, and there’s another stronger one nipping at its heels that will affect a much wider area of the US. The first storm will unleash up to a foot of snow through Sunday that could cause travel …
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08-01-2024 DHAKA: PM Sheikh Hasina is set to win a fifth term, fourth straight in general elections, boycotted by the main opposition party. Hasina voted just after ballots opened at 8am (02:00 GMT). Polls officially closed at 4pm (10:00 GMT). Counting of votes will start shortly, with initial results expected …
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07-01-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KARACHI/ KABUL/ BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN: Islamic State, the Sunni Muslim militant group which claimed responsibility for two deadly blasts in predominantly Shi’ite Iran this week, has been operating in the shadows since it was allegedly largely crushed by a US-led coalition. Here …
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07-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: When the world’s last reigning queen announced her abdication, history was also made in a country far, far away. “I will hand over the throne to my son Crown Prince Frederik,” Queen Margrethe II of Denmark said. Her decision to make way for …
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07-01-2024 CAIRO/ GAZA/ JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Europe’s senior diplomat Josep Borrell began a new diplomatic push on Friday to stop spillover from the Gaza war into Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Red Sea shipping lanes. Their Middle East visits came three months since Hamas militants …
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07-01-2024 BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: The Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the US-led international military coalition from the country, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s office said on Friday. The US has 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq on a mission it says advises and assists local forces …
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07-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy yesterday rescued the crew of a merchant vessel after its attempted hijack in the Arabian Sea and said it had not found any pirates on board. An Indian Navy warship intercepted the Liberian-flagged MV Lila Norfolk bulk carrier less than …
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