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GAZA: Israeli forces stormed southern Gaza's main city on Tuesday in what they called the most intense day of combat in five weeks of ground operations against Hamas, and hospitals struggled to cope with scores of Palestinian dead and…
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Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year, highlighting the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person. It topped “Swiftie” (an enthusiastic fan of…
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LONDON: Britain announced plans to slash the number of migrants arriving by legal routes by raising the minimum salary they must earn in a skilled job by a third, amid pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to tackle record net migration…
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WASHINGTON: White House deputy national security adviser Jon Finer led a US delegation to New Delhi on Monday where he noted the formation of an investigative panel by India to probe an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on…
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GAZA: Israeli forces pressed ahead with their air and ground bombardment of southern Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, even as the United States and the United Nations repeatedly urged them to protect civilians.…
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GAZA: The President of the Gaza Islamic University in the Gaza Strip, Sufyan Tayeh, and his family were killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike. According to reports, the academic was killed in an airstrike in the Al-Faluja area in…
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JAKARTA: Eleven climbers were found dead in Indonesia on Monday following the eruption of the Marapi volcano in West Sumatra, a rescue official said, as a search to find 12 more missing was temporarily halted over safety concerns. Three…
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RIYADH: Three commercial vessels came under attack in international waters in the southern Red Sea, the US military said, as Yemen's Houthi group claimed drone and missile attacks on two Israeli vessels in the area. The Carney, an…
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PARIS: A man armed with a knife and a hammer killed a German tourist and left two people, including a British man, wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris late on Saturday in what President Emmanuel Macron called "a terrorist attack". A…
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One of the three college students of Palestinian descent who were shot in Vermont last month is paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, the student's family said. Hisham Awartani, a 20-year-old student at Brown…
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NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international watchdog body, has called on Indian authorities to stop investigating journalist Rejaz Sheeba Sydeek over his report on anti-Muslim bias in the police force, return his…
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GAZA: Israeli warplanes resumed the pounding of Gaza and Palestinian civilians fled for shelter on Friday as war resumed after a week-long truce collapsed with no deal to extend it. The Israeli military announced it had "resumed combat…
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Singapore and Zurich tied for the world's most expensive city this year, followed by Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said, as it cautioned that the global cost-of-living crisis was not yet over. On…
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RAMALLAH: Prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was among 30 prisoners freed by Israel early on Thursday under a temporary Gaza truce between Israel and Hamas. Israeli troops earlier this month arrested Tamimi, regarded in the…
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NEW YORK: An Indian national has been charged with plotting to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on US soil, the Justice Department said, alleging an Indian government official was also involved in the planning. The Justice Department…
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