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Heavy rains bring both relief and new dangers to bushfire-hit Australia
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY: A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come. The weekend drenching represented the biggest sustained
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US warns Israel against ‘unilateral’ West Bank moves
JERUSALEM: A US envoy warned Israel yesterday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washington’s consent, pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultra-nationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace
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Twitter says official accounts of Facebook, Messenger hacked
Twitter has confirmed that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook Inc and its Messenger platform were hacked. A Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a third-party platform. “As soon as
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Unpaid bills, empty homes: Families of Iran plane crash victims still mourning
TORONTO: Grief-stricken relatives of passengers killed aboard an airliner shot down by Iran over Tehran last month are grappling in Canada with the daily challenges of long-distance funeral arrangements, empty homes, cars left in driveways and unpaid bills. Iran admitted
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Sanders and Buttigieg face attacks at Democratic presidential debate
MANCHESTER, N.H: Democratic presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, the top finishers in Iowa’s first nominating contest, faced a barrage of criticism yesterday from rivals who said they did not have what it takes to lead the party to
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Trump strikes back, ousts White House staff who testified against him
The Trump administration has removed Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from his position as the White House’s top Ukraine expert after he provided damaging testimony about President Donald Trump during the impeachment process, Vindman’s lawyer said. Vindman was escorted out
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Robert Pattinson is the world most handsome man, followed by Henry Cavill
LONDON: Twilight actor Robert Pattinson has been declared the most handsome man in the world following science research into what constitutes the ‘perfect face’. The British Batman actor, 33, was found to be 92.15% ‘accurate’ to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi, which
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Yazidi girls sold as sex slaves create choir to find healing
LONDON: When Rainas Elias was 14, Islamic State militants overran her Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq, kidnapped her and sold her to a fighter who repeatedly raped and tortured her before selling her to an even more brutal monster. Two
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US kills al-Qaeda leader in Arabian Peninsula hiding in Yemen
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said yesterday that the US had killed Qassim al-Raymi, the leader of Islamist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in a counter terrorism operation in Yemen. “Under Rimi, AQAP committed unconscionable violence against
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Australia welcomes drought-easing drenching, even as it brings floods
SYDNEY: The east coast of Australia welcomed the heaviest drenching in years today, dousing some of the country’s most damaging and long-running wildfires and easing a drought that has crippled farming across two states. Sydney alone had seen more than
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