This picture taken on February 4, 2025 shows a general view of an illuminated wedding hall, at night in Kabul, Afghanistan. — AFP As night settles over Afghanistan’s capital, only a few small lights and neon signs pierce the darkness and thick blanket of winter pollution. But on some street corners, glittering colossal wedding halls loom out of the gloom, …
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US President Donald Trump said he is committed to buying and owning Gaza, but could allow sections of the war-ravaged land to be rebuilt by other states in the Middle East. “I’m committed to buying and owning Gaza. As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it, …
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Immigration enforcement officers seen in this undated image.— AFP/File UK immigration enforcement teams made over 600 arrests in January, a 73 per cent increase from the period a year ago, as part of the new Labour government’s plan to tackle undocumented migration and people smuggling gangs, officials said Monday. A government statement said the 609 arrests, compared to 352 in …
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Bodies of migrants lie in bags, after they were discovered in a mass grave in a farm in Jikharra area, some 441 km from Benghazi, in Jikharra, Libya, February 5, 2025. — Reuters TUNIS: Libyan authorities have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 28 sub-Saharan migrants in the southeastern district of Kufra, near a site where they were …
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This combination of pictures shows Tesla CEO Elon Musk (left) and US President Donald Trump. — AFP/File Trump says American people “want me to find” waste. He terms Musk “great help” in rooting out unnecessary spending. Earlier, judge blocked DOGE access to Treasury Department records. WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said in remarks airing Sunday that Elon Musk, who is presiding …
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President Trump (L) speaks as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin stands beside him during a one-on-one meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. — Reuters “He [Putin] wants to see people stop dying,” says Trump. “Many different communications are emerging”: Kremlin. US president says team has had “some very good talks”. MOSCOW: US President Donald Trump said he has spoken to …
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The patient’s entrance at the National Institutes of Health is shown in Bethesda, Maryland October 16, 2014. — Reuters The US agency overseeing medical research has announced a major cut in funding to universities and research centers, a move strongly condemned by scientists and academics who say work on cancer and other diseases will suffer. The National Institutes of Health …
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An Israeli official said Sunday that Israeli forces have begun withdrawing from a key Gaza corridor, part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas that is moving ahead, Associated Press news agency reported. Israel agreed as part of the truce to remove its forces from the Netzarim corridor, a strip of land that bisects northern Gaza from the south. The official …
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An Israeli official said Sunday that Israeli forces have begun withdrawing from a key Gaza corridor, part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas that is moving ahead, Associated Press news agency reported. Israel agreed as part of the truce to remove its forces from the Netzarim corridor, a strip of land that bisects northern Gaza from the south. The official …
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US President Donald Trump said that he has talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine, the New York Post reported late on Saturday. In an interview aboard Air Force One on Friday Trump said that he had “better not say,” when asked how many times the two leaders have …
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