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Weeks before India heads into a two-month-long election with nearly a billion voters, political party merchandise and flag makers are expanding operations and working overtime to meet a surge in demand. Ahead of the first voting day of the seven-phase election on April 19, garment makers are temporarily converting factories
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A makeshift ferry sank off Mozambique’s northern coast on Sunday, killing more than 90 people including children, local media reported. The overcrowded boat was carrying 130 people and many of those who drowned were children, according to TV Diário Nampula, a local online outlet. The boat was operating between
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Senior Lebanese Forces official Pascal Sleiman was killed by his kidnappers as they tried to steal his car in the Jbeil region, the Lebanese Army said on Monday. His body was transported to Syria and the army is coordinating with authorities there to repatriate his body. Most of the Syrian
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The leaders of Japan and the Philippines head to Washington this week for a first trilateral summit aimed at boosting defense ties, hot on the heels of four-way military drills in the South China Sea that riled Beijing. A major upgrade of military command structures between the United States and
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The Shawwal crescent moon was not sighted on Monday evening, Ramadan 29, announced Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court. Tuesday will be the final day of the holy month, and Eid Al-Fitr celebrations will commence on Wednesday, April 10. Eid Al-Fitr prayer will take place across the Kingdom on Wednesday shortly
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Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye named a “breakaway” government on Friday, appointing a host of fresh faces to top roles following his landslide election win last month. The 44-year-old, who has never before held elected office, swept to a first-round victory on a promise of radical reform, becoming the
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Rescuers were planning to bring in heavy equipment on Saturday to try to recover two bodies buried under boulders on a hiking trail, three days after Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years. Four more people remain missing on the same Shakadang Trail in Taroko National Park, famed for its
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Russia said Saturday it had evacuated more than 4,000 people in the Orenburg region, which lies near the Kazakhstan border, due to flooding after a dam burst. Emergency services had been working through the night after a dam burst in the city of Orsk, near the border with Kazakhstan.
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Farmers in Punjab have begun putting up posters in a bid to stop Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from entering their villages ahead of this month’s general election, in which India’s ruling party is seeking a third consecutive term in power. Banners reading “Farmers are barred from entering Delhi,
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Saudi Arabia called Saturday on Muslims to sight the crescent moon on the evening of April 8, which will mark the end of Ramadan. The Saudi Supreme Court issued a statement calling on residents to report the moon sighting and notify the respective authority. The sighting can be done with
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The European Space Agency said Thursday it will launch a satellite in June which will improve weather forecasting in the Arctic, a region highly exposed to the effects of global warming. The Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) was designed over three years by European aerospace company OHB. The satellite, which is
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The French government on Thursday launched an investigation after a 14-year-old girl was temporarily left comatose after being beaten outside her school by three other teenagers in the south of France. The three alleged attackers, including a girl who was at the same school as the victim in the suburbs
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An activated but faulty missile launcher on a Danish navy vessel triggered a closure of airspace and shipping traffic in the Great Belt strait on Thursday, the Danish armed forces said. Denmark’s National Maritime Authority had earlier warned ships not to sail through the Great Belt strait, one of
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Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday defended his “integrity” and “transparent” assets, following a complaint filed in France accusing him of money laundering and other offenses. Two associations filed a complaint against Mikati with France’s financial prosecutor’s office, accusing him of fraudulently building up assets in France
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Polling stations opened on Thursday in Kuwait’s first election since Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah assumed power late last year. Voters will select representatives from five electoral constituencies for the National Assembly’s 18th legislative term. The polls, the fourth since December 2020, will close at midnight local time, according
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A drone attack killed seven people and injured six on Tuesday in Atbara in northeast Sudan, a city that had until now been spared the country’s brutal warfare, a medic and witnesses told AFP. Much of Sudan has been gripped for nearly a year by a bloody war between