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CAIRO: Israel announced a new military campaign against Hamas in central Gaza on Wednesday and Palestinian medics said airstrikes there had killed dozens of people ahead of talks between US and Qatari mediators to try to finalise a…
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KARACHI: The flavour and variety of traditional Turkish cuisines attracted top government officials, politicians, businessmen, educators, and journalists to celebrate Turkish Breakfast Day in Karachi on Saturday. A variety of feasts…
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NEW DELHI: There are at least two major alliance partners on which the Indian ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will be banking to form the government after the ruling party remained short of the 272-seat majority in Tuesday’s vote count…
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GUWAHATI: India's main opposition Congress party bagged both parliamentary seats in strife-torn Manipur in the general election as the north-eastern state voted out Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party and its ally after…
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PARIS: From cooking for dictators to rushing to accommodate Barack Obama's love of cheese -- a collection of French state dinner menus offered a unique insight into 150 years of diplomatic and gastronomic history on Wednesday. The…
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PARIS: Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France's largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from their middle-class suburban Parisian home. The move…
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NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is likely to win a majority in parliament, early vote counting showed on Tuesday, but well short of a landslide predicted by exit polls. Modi's Hindu…
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NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to meet his allies on Wednesday to discuss forming the government, a day after his Hindu nationalist party lost its outright majority in parliament in a surprise election verdict.…
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LEBANON: Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian freedom fighting group Hamas, says it has been striking Israel in support of Palestinians under Israeli bombardment in Gaza. It has previously said it will commit to a cease fire when the…
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CAIRO: Israeli horrific aggression claimed the lives of at least 19 people, including two policemen aiding humanitarian efforts in Rafah, Gaza. 17 of the deaths, they said, occurred in separate Israeli airstrikes on the al-Bureij and…
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