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Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians


August 16, 2023

AQBAT CAMP: Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, in the first deadly raid in the Jericho area for months. There has been a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent months, marked by raids by Israeli forces as well as deadly attacks by Palestinians and Israelis. The Palestinian health ministry announced two …

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Iran re-arrests reporter who interviewed Mahsa Amini’s father


August 16, 2023

PARIS: Iranian authorities have re-arrested a journalist who interviewed the father of the woman whose custody death sparked months of protests, just two days after her release from jail, activists said on Tuesday. Nazila Maroufian walked out of Tehran’s Evin prison on Sunday, posting on social media a picture of herself without a headscarf in defiance of the Islamic republic’s …

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Poland displays military might in big parade


August 16, 2023

WARSAW: Poland’s biggest military parade since the Cold War took place in Warsaw on Tuesday, as the Nato-member country flexed its military muscle in what the government hoped would be both a message to Moscow and to voters ahead of elections in October. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made boosting the armed forces a priority for Poland’s ruling nationalists Law …

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Jamaat leader laid to rest amid violent Bangladesh protests


August 16, 2023

DHAKA: Around 50,000 people attended Tuesday’s funeral for a Jamaat-i-Islami leader in Bangladesh, police said, after news of his death in prison sparked violent protests. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 83, was sentenced to death in 2013 for his role in the rape, murder and the persecution of Hindu Bangladeshis during the country’s independence war decades earlier. He was the vice president of the …

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German FM axes trip after plane breaks down


August 16, 2023

BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was forced on Tuesday to scrap her trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji after her plane suffered recurring technical problems, the latest in a series of incidents to hit the German fleet. “We tried everything but unfortunately it’s logistically not possible to carry out my Indo-Pacific travel (plans) without the defective plane,” the …

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US will welcome Iran’s decision to slow down N-plan, says Blinken


August 16, 2023

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday he could not confirm a report that Iran slowed its pace of amassing near-weapons-grade enriched uranium but would welcome any Iranian steps to de-escalate its “growing nuclear threat.” Blinken also told reporters that Iran moving US detainees into house arrest was not related to any other aspect of US policy …

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Russian strikes hit Ukraine areas far from front lines


August 16, 2023

LVIV: Russian air strikes hit two western regions of Ukraine bordering Nato member Poland and other areas on Tuesday, killing three people in a factory and wounding more than a dozen, Ukrainian officials said. Local media said the attacks were the largest air assault on the Lviv region since the Russian invasion in February 2022. The fatalities were reported in …

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North Korea claims ‘racial discrimination’ drove US soldier to defect


August 16, 2023

Travis King defected to North Korea to escape “mistreatment and racial discrimination in the US Army”, state media said on Wednesday, Pyongyang’s first official confirmation they were holding the American soldier. A private second class with a chequered disciplinary record, King was due to fly back to America in July but instead slipped out of South Korea’s main airport, joined …

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Another incident of Holy Quran desecration takes place in Sweden


August 16, 2023

Another incident of desecration of the Holy Quran has taken place outside the Swedish Royal Palace in the capital Stockholm amid a heavy police presence, it emerged on Wednesday. The incident, which took place on Monday, marked the second time in a matter of weeks that Salwan Momika, 37, and Salwan Najem, 48, have desecrated the Holy Quran, Al Jazeera reported. Momika, …

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Social media app TweetDeck placed behind paywall


August 16, 2023

Social media app TweetDeck began going behind a paywall on Tuesday, with users of platform X, formerly known as Twitter, being diverted to a paid-subscription sign-up page when they tried to access it. X announced in July that TweetDeck, a popular programme that allows users to monitor multiple accounts and lists of users at once, would be available only to “verified” account …

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