Tue 24 December 2024: Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry on Monday welcomed the reopening of Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Kabul for the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. On Sunday, the Saudi Embassy in Kabul said on X that it was resuming the mission’s activities “based on the government’s keenness to provide all […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Israel’s defense minister on Monday publicly admitted for the first time that the Jewish state was behind the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, 2024. “We’ll severely cripple the Houthis, damage their strategic infrastructure and behead their leaders – just as we did to Haniyeh, Sinwar […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Search reveals over 70 long-barreled firearms, 5,000 rounds of ammunition, and several explosive materials, alongside Nazi symbols that banned under Austrian law A police operation in Austria’s Styria province uncovered a significant cache of weapons, ammunition, explosives, and prohibited Nazi memorabilia, authorities reported on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, law enforcement […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: US troops should not remain in Syria, Mike Waltz, named as national security adviser by US President-elect Donald Trump, has said. In an interview aired yesterday, Waltz discussed key foreign policy issues, including the situation in Syria, American-Israeli captives in Gaza, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Waltz emphasised that Washington’s primary concerns […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Jordan stands ready to help Syria rebuild, its Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi said after meeting the new Syrian de facto ruler Ahmed Al-Sharaa in Damascus on Monday, the highest-level contact by an Arab state with Syria’s new administration, Reuters has reported. Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Al-Khulaifi also arrived in […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: A Kashmiri wedding is measured in quintals, a historical unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms, or about 220 pounds. And this, some argue, is its undoing. If you have been to a Kashmiri wedding recently and your friend were to inquire about it, the most common query would be, “How […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: The protests that followed Mozambique’s contested October elections have been the most protracted and deadliest since multiparty democracy in 1990. Police have reportedly killed at least 50 since Daniel Chapo, from the ruling Frelimo, was declared winner by a fanciful 70%. The party has been in power since independence in 1975. A parallel count by the […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Pope Francis doubled down Sunday on his condemnation of Israel’s strikes on the Gaza Strip, denouncing their “cruelty” for the second time in as many days despite Israel accusing him of “double standards”. “And with pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: The government’s decision comes after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death by a classmate following a social media fight. Albania has announced a ban on TikTok for one year after the killing of a teenager last month raised concerns over the influence of social media on children. The ban of […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: Russia’s top Islamic authority has issued a ruling permitting polygamy in specific circumstances, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Mufti Ildar Alyautdinov, deputy chairman of the Ulama Council of Russia’s Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM), announced the decision and outlined the conditions for religious polygamy or, more specifically polygyny, the practice […]
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