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NEW YORK: Israel’s war on Gaza has resulted in an unprecedented level of destruction to its economy which will take tens of billions of dollars and decades to reverse, UN trade and development body, UNCTAD, said in a new report. The…
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JENIN: Israeli commandos disguised as medical workers and women burst into a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and killed three Palestinian militants, one of them lying paralysed in bed, witnesses and authorities said. The…
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ATMORE: Alabama executed convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who held his breath in vain as officials asphyxiated him with nitrogen gas, the first use of a new method of capital punishment since lethal injections began in the US four decades…
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is preparing to open its first alcohol store in the capital Riyadh which will serve exclusively non-Muslim diplomats. According to Reuters news agency, customers will have to register via a mobile app, get a…
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Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who has been documenting the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip, has left the enclave and headed to Qatar. Azaiza announced on Instagram on Tuesday that he was leaving the besieged strip before boarding a…
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BRUSSELS: Israel's foreign minister sidestepped discussion of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a meeting with European Union counterparts on Monday, opting to show them aspirational videos of future infrastructure…
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JERSUSALEM: Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed during intense fighting in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the military said on Tuesday, marking the highest one-day Israeli death toll since fighting began in the enclave. Israel launched…
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Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died on Monday of prostate cancer, the King Center in Atlanta announced. His wife, Leah Weber King, said he died in his…
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BEIJING: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region on Tuesday with reports of several injuries and collapsed houses, Chinese state media reported. The epicentre of the quake struck at 2:09 a.m. (1809 GMT)…
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WASHINGTON: US and British forces carried out a fresh round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities used by the group against Red Sea shipping, the Pentagon…
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TOKYO: Japan Airlines named its first female president, a former cabin attendant who rose through the ranks to senior management, taking a deeply symbolic step in a country struggling to close a vast gender gap at work. Mitsuko Tottori,…
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WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden said that the clashes between Iran and Pakistan this week show that Iran is not well-liked in the region as the White House said it does not want to see an escalation. Pakistan launched…
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NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his call for “maximum restraint” after Pakistan’s precision retaliatory strikes in Iran, and called for the security concerns between the two countries to be resolved peacefully.…
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LONDON: The United States returned the Yemen-based Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups, as the militants attacked their second US-operated vessel in the Red Sea region this week and the US military carried out fresh strikes.…
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OTTAWA: The number of study permits Canada issued to Indian students fell sharply late last year amid a diplomatic row between the two countries. India ejected Canadian diplomats who would process the permits and fewer Indian students…
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