Sun 13 October 2024: Hamas tried to persuade its two allies, Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, to join its October 7, 2023, attack against Israel or at least commit to a broader fight if the Palestinian militant group staged a surprise cross-border raid, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Saturday, citing the […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: A university professor close to the Iranian establishment has been summoned by the judiciary after alleging on state television that an Iranian intermediary bought the Hezbollah pagers that exploded last month. During a live Iranian state TV broadcast, Masoud Asadollahi, a former deputy commander of the IRGC Quds Force and a professor […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: When we start to go grey depends a lot on genetics. Your first grey hairs usually appear anywhere between your twenties and fifties. For men, grey hairs normally start at the temples and sideburns. Women tend to start greying on the hairline, especially at the front. The most rapid greying usually happens between ages 50 and 60. But […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) officially came into force on Sunday despite continued rejections by Egypt and Sudan, according to the Ethiopian prime minister, Anadolu reports. The agreement establishes the Nile River Basin Commission (NRBC), an institutional body tasked with promoting and coordinating cooperation among the Basin states on matters of […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Israeli data revealed a sharp increase in immigration from Israel abroad since the beginning of the year, reaching a level three times more than the immigration rates prior to the war. Israel’s Maariv newspaper reported that the first seven months of the year witnessed the immigration of 40,000 Israelis, equivalent to three times the […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Iran has banned pagers and walkie-talkies on all flights, local media reported Saturday, weeks after deadly sabotage attacks in Lebanon which were blamed on Israel. “The entry of any electronic communication device, except mobile phones, in flight cabins or … in non-accompanied cargo, has been banned,” ISNA news agency reported, citing […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: The Kremlin said on Saturday that Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s description of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “murderous dictator” exposed how politicians in Washington sought to impose their views on the world. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s comment was the latest jab in exchanges revolving around the US presidential […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Social media platform TikTok said it will slash hundreds of jobs, with a significant number of employees in Malaysia expected to be affected, as the company shifts to AI-assisted content moderation. TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, said Friday it would cut several hundred jobs around the world, without providing a breakdown […]
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Sun 13 October 2024: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he had a “brief exchange” with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in Laos this week, a year after he accused India’s government of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist in B.C. It’s the second time Trudeau’s come face to […]
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All the evidence suggests that the ship sank after a battle in the second half of the 17th century. / Photo: AA Sun 13 October 2024: The wreck yields 14 Janissary rifles, approximately 2,500 lead marbles, exploded cannonballs and sets of blue-painted porcelain bowls thought to have been made in China for Islamic markets. […]
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