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McDonald’s has said it will buy its 30-year-old Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000 people. The US fast-food chain has been subject to boycotts and protests since Alonyal…
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WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden threatened to condition support for Israel's offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to leverage US aid to influence Israeli military…
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Celebrity chef Jose Andres said that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car." In an emotional interview to Reuters news agency, Andres said the World Central…
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WASHINGTON: The White House held a scaled-down iftar dinner on Tuesday to celebrate Islam's holy month of Ramadan, after some invitees turned the president down over frustrations in the Muslim community over his policy toward the…
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WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said he was "outraged and heartbroken" by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza that killed seven people working for World Central Kitchen (WCK) and he called on Israel to do more to protect aid workers.…
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JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Israel mistakenly killed seven people working for the aid charity World Central Kitchen in a Gaza airstrike, and the US and other allies called for explanations amid widespread…
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TAIPEI: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing four people, injuring dozens and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was…
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Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who committed the blasphemous act of burning the Holy Quran several times, has been found dead in Norway. According to reports, Momika had recently left Sweden and had sought asylum in Norway and was…
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NEW YORK: Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, averting asset seizures by state authorities that could have hobbled the former US president’s business empire. Trump, set to face President Joe Biden in…
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DAMASCUS: Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Syria on Monday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, marking a major escalation in Israel's war with its regional…
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GAZA: Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres' World Central Kitchen who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Monday, the NGO said. The workers, who…
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ISTANBUL: Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow on Sunday in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the…
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TORONTO: Canada's Niagara region has proactively declared a state of emergency ahead of a rare total solar eclipse on April 8 that is expected to gather massive crowds to areas in and around the region's popular waterfalls with around a…
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THE HAGUE:  Judges at the International Court of Justice unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza. The ICJ said the…
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MOSCOW: Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin…
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