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BELGRADE: A gunman entered a nursing home in northwestern Croatia on Monday shooting dead five people, including his mother, and injuring six others, a government minister said. One of the wounded later died in hospital taking the…
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ETHIOPIA: At least 55 people were killed in a landslide in a remote area of southern Ethiopia on Monday, local authorities said, warning that the death toll could rise. "More than 55 bodies have been found from the landslide," a…
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GAZA: Shanbari said most of the wells near his makeshift shelter in the Jabalia refugee camp have been destroyed. And the water distribution network barely works after more than nine months of war that has devastated Gaza's…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will try to show swing voters that his likely new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, has her fingerprints all over two issues he is counting on for victory in November: immigration and…
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DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blamed her political opponents for deadly violence that swept the country during recent student-led protests against quotas in government jobs, stating on Monday that a curfew would be…
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DHAKA: The Bangladeshi student group leading demonstrations that have spiralled into deadly violence suspended protests on Monday for 48 hours, with its leader saying they had not wanted reform “at the expense of so much blood”. What…
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DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has handed lengthy prison sentences to 57 Bangladeshi expatriates for protesting against their government while in the Gulf country where demonstrations are banned, state media reported on Monday.…
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PARIS: The Paris Olympics, which open on Friday, will feature a new sport in breaking, plus three young sports returning from the Tokyo Games; climbing, skateboarding and surfing. These are the changes to the sports programme:…
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Venezuelans are preparing to vote in a presidential contest this Sunday that pits incumbent President Nicolas Maduro against opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. Gonzalez has been leading in opinion polls by some 20 points, but the…
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India has lifted a decades-old ban on civil servants being members of a far-right Hindu nationalist group that is the ideological parent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party, according to a government memo made public on…
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