19-11-2022 ZURICH: Business is rarely this simple. If you manufacture a product which everybody wants to buy, but which costs you almost nothing to make, you are going to accrue a lot of money rather quickly. In a nutshell, this is how FIFA, football’s world governing body, makes money. In …
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19-11-2022 NGARANNAM- NIGERI: Saleh Abba’s new home, a well-ventilated two-bedroom flat that he shares with his wife and three children in Ngarannam, a small, humid town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, is a source of joy for the Boko Haram survivor. The 29-year-old grain grinder’s favourite spot is …
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19-11-2022 KYIV: More than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity after dozens of Russian air attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure as winter sets in and temperatures plummet, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Repeated barrages disrupted electricity and water supplies across Ukraine, but Russia blamed the civilian suffering on Ukraine’s …
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19-11-2022 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russia hopes it can make a prisoner swap with the United States that would include convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death”, a deputy foreign minister was quoted as saying on Friday. Amid the deadliest war in Europe since World War Two, …
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18-11-2022 Bureau Report + BBC NEW DELHI: A federal minister in India has stirred a controversy after he blamed live-in relationships for a murder case that has made headlines in the country. Shraddha Walkar was killed in May, allegedly by her live-in partner, who has been arrested and charged with …
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18-11-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: India successfully launched its first privately developed rocket, the Vikram-S, on Friday, a milestone in the country’s effort to create a commercial space industry and to compete on cost. The 545-kg rocket, developed by space startup Skyroot, took off from the Indian space agency’s …
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18-11-2022 WASHINGTON: Nancy Pelosi, the trailblazing Democrat who as the first woman US House of Representatives speaker shepherded landmark legislation and led two impeachments, said on Thursday she will give up her leadership role a day after Republicans secured control of the chamber. Pelosi’s allies quickly rallied around Representative Hakeem …
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18-11-2022 WASHINGTON: The Biden administration ruled on Thursday that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has immunity from a lawsuit over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, drawing immediate condemnation from the slain journalist’s former fiancee. Khashoggi was killed and dismembered in October 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, …
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18-11-2022 PYONGYANG/ EOUL/ TOKYO: North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday that Japanese officials said had sufficient range to reach the mainland of the United States and that landed just 200 kilometres (130 miles) off Japan. The launch, reported by both South Korean and Japanese officials, …
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18-11-2022 GAZA: At least 21 people have been killed and several others injured after a fire ripped through a residential building in the densely-populated Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, according to local sources. Ambulances rushed several injured people to local hospitals, and Israel, which together with Egypt …
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