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JERUSALEM: Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement on Thursday to extend their six-day ceasefire by one more day to allow negotiators to keep working on deals to swap hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. The truce has…
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Henry Kissinger, a diplomatic powerhouse whose roles as a national security adviser and secretary of state under two presidents left an indelible mark on US foreign policy, has died at age 100. Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut,…
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PARIS: The Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh won the right to host the Expo 2030 world fair, in another diplomatic victory for a Gulf country after last year's soccer World Cup in Qatar. South Korea's port city of Busan and Rome in Italy…
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GAZA: A Hamas senior official invited US billionaire Elon Musk to visit the Palestinian Gaza strip to see the extent of destruction caused by the Israeli bombardment. "We invite him to visit Gaza to see the extent of the massacres and…
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OMAHA: Warren Buffett's trusted confidante Charlie Munger died on Tuesday at age 99, leaving a void at Berkshire Hathaway that investors said would be impossible to fill despite the conglomerate's well-established succession plan.…
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BRUSELLS: Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is the clear front-runner to become NATO's next chief despite a shock far-right win at elections in his homeland. Multiple diplomats put the veteran well ahead of other hopefuls -…
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s sports minister was sacked hours after he accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of trying to assassinate him over his moves to clean up corruption at the cricket board. Officials said Roshan Ranasinghe was dismissed…
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PARIS: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation. After buying Twitter…
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JERUSALEM: Elon Musk, the social media mogul assailed for his endorsement of an anti-Jewish post, toured the site of the Hamas assault on Israel on Monday and declared his commitment to do whatever was necessary to stop the spread of…
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WELLINGTON: Christopher Luxon was sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister on Monday and said his top priority was to improve the economy. The 53-year-old former businessman leads a conservative coalition after his National Party struck…
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A suspect was arrested in the shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vermont, early on Monday, in an attack police are investigating as a suspected hate-motivated crime. A man with a pistol shot and…
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GAZA: The truce between Israel and Hamas entered its final 24 hours on Monday, with the group saying it was willing to extend the pause after it freed more hostages, including a four-year-old orphaned by its attack. The pause that began…
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PARIS: Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty in 2020. The teacher had shown his pupils blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)…
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BOSTON: A prestigious journal published by Harvard Law School refused to publish an academic article accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza after editors feared a backlash. The Harvard Law Review, which is run by the school’s…
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DUBLIN: Irish police guarded looted stores and firefighters cooled down smouldering vehicles in the heart of Dublin's city centre early on Friday after the stabbing of three young children sparked a night of rioting rarely seen before in…
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