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A key Biden confidant had earlier urged him to use the leverage afforded by the huge military aid that Washington gives Israel – something Biden has resisted for the past six months. | Photo Credit: Reuters President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 4 that U.S. policy on Israel depends on the…
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Both women were Asian with a permanent residence in the Czech Republic (Representational) Prague: A Prague hospital offered apologies on Thursday to a patient on whom it had performed an involuntary abortion after mixing her up with another patient last week. One of the women came to the hospital for a regular check as she…
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File photo Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said the government will launch a probe into threat letters laced with a “suspicious powder” received by the judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts in Islamabad and Lahore. Eight judges of Islamabad High Court (IHC) and three judges of Lahore High Court…
File photo Washington: US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, three days after Israel launched an attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, according to a source familiar with the matter. The White House has described Biden as outraged and heartbroken by the attack but…
Representational Image Milan: Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested 22 people and seized assets from villas to Rolexes worth over 600 million euros ($652 million) as part of an investigation into alleged fraud tied to European Union and Italian funding schemes. Finance police in Venice said they believe the group, which operated in…
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Family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial centre in the capital Kigali, Rwanda on April 5, 2019. | Photo Credit: AP French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide but lacked the…
Iran’s state media said security forces were able to release hostages taken by gunmen on April 4 following clashes in three separate areas in southeastern Iran that left 18 militants and 10 troops dead. The fighting erupted overnight in Sistan and Baluchistan province when gunmen opened fire on Revolutionary Guard posts in Rask and Sarbaz…
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Polish President Andrzej Duda called the comment “outrageous” and described the ambassador as “the biggest problem for the state of Israel in relations with Poland.” File | Photo Credit: Reuters A new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president on April…
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French President Emmanuel Macron. | Photo Credit: REUTERS President Emmanuel Macron on April 4 denounced as “bizarre and threatening” Russia’s tone following rare phone talks between the Defence Ministers of France and Russia, their first contact since 2022. On April 3, French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu reached out to his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, saying…
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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. | Photo Credit: AP More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the deaths of three U.K. aid workers in an Israeli strike. Britain is…
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