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11-10-2024 PYONGYANG: North Korea will sever road and railway access to South Korea from Wednesday in a bid to “completely separate” the two countries. Its military said the North would “permanently shut off and block the southern border” and fortify areas on its side. The Korean People’s Army (KPA) described …

10-10-2024 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Global index provider FTSE Russell said on Tuesday it would include India’s sovereign bonds in its Emerging Markets Government Bond Index (EMGBI) from September 2025, after index inclusion by JP Morgan (JPM.N), opens new tab and Bloomberg Index Services, potentially drawing billions of dollars into local …

10-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Israeli airstrikes had killed two successors to Hezbollah’s slain leader, as Israel expanded its ground offensive against the Iran-backed group with a fourth army division deployed into south Lebanon. Netanyahu spoke in a video released by his office hours after …

10-10-2024 KHARTOUM/ UNITED NATIONS: The war in Sudan could cost countless more lives if immediate action is not taken, as famine and disease spread while fighting intensifies and aid workers struggle to gain access, a senior World Health Organization official said on Tuesday. Nearly 18 months have caused the world’s …

10-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HARYANA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed for a surprise election victory in Haryana state on Tuesday, reinforcing its popularity in the northern heartland a few months after stumbling in national elections but the main opposition Congress party, which …

10-10-2024 BRASILIA: Brazil’s Supreme Court has said it is lifting a ban on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. In his decision, Justice Alexandre de Moraes said that he authorized the “immediate return” of X’s activities in the country after it paid hefty fines and blocked accounts …

10-10-2024 PARIS: A son of the al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been banned from returning to France, the country’s interior minister has announced. Omar Bin Laden, 43, has spent years living in Normandy in the north of France, where he has earned a living painting landscape portraits but new …

10-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel’s prime minister has made a direct appeal to urge the Lebanese people to throw out Hezbollah and avoid “destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza”. Benjamin Netanyahu’s appeal on Tuesday came as Israel expanded its ground invasion against Hezbollah by sending thousands more troops into …

09-10-2024 KHARTOUM/ CAIRO/ DUBAI: Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan’s most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides are making it difficult to provide life-saving aid amid the world’s biggest hunger crisis. Many volunteers have fled under threat of arrest or …

09-10-2024 GAZA STRIP: At least 45 Palestinians including five children and two women are martyred in Israeli air strikes on central Gaza as soldiers “systematically work to empty” the war-battered north. Israel expands attacks on southern Lebanon and hammers Beirut’s southern suburbs as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launches a …