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Category: 3. World

  • Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina

    Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina


    The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday.

    Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for…

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  • The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content

    The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content

    WASHINGTON: Every day over the past few weeks, the Pentagon has faced questions from angry lawmakers, local leaders and citizens over the removal of military heroes and historic mentions from Defense Department websites and social media pages after it purged online content that promoted women or minorities.
    In response, the department has scrambled to restore a handful of those posts as their removals have come to light. While the pages of some well-known veterans, including baseball and…

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  • Chinese to pursue ‘correct’ path of globalization

    Chinese to pursue ‘correct’ path of globalization

    BEIJING: China’s number two leader told a gathering of business executives in Beijing on Sunday that the country would “adhere to the correct direction of economic globalization” in the face of “fragmentation.”
    The China Development Forum convenes amid a renewed trade war with Washington, with the return of Donald Trump to the White House threatening China’s booming exports.
    Beijing has been seeking to steer a shaky economy onto a more stable path since the end of the pandemic,…

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  • Canada’s new PM Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

    Canada’s new PM Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

    TORONTO: New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will run in an Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament for the first time, the Liberal Party announced Saturday, a day before Carney triggers an early general election before a vote on April 28.
    The election will take place against the backdrop of a trade war and sovereignty threats from US President Donald Trump.

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  • Kremlin says ‘difficult negotiations’ ahead on Ukraine

    Kremlin says ‘difficult negotiations’ ahead on Ukraine

    MOSCOW : The Kremlin on Sunday downplayed expectations for a rapid resolution to the Ukraine conflict, saying talks were just beginning and that “difficult negotiations” were ahead.
    Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are set to hold separate talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia over the next 48 hours as President Donald Trump pushes for a rapid end to more than three years of fighting.
    “We are only at the beginning of this path,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian…

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  • After breaking fast, volunteers use Ramadan as an opportunity to give in Detroit

    After breaking fast, volunteers use Ramadan as an opportunity to give in Detroit


    The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday.

    Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Trump targets lawyers in immigration cases, lawsuits against administration

    Trump targets lawyers in immigration cases, lawsuits against administration


    The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday.

    Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for…

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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

  • Mount Fuji hikers to be charged $27 on all trails

    Mount Fuji hikers to be charged $27 on all trails

    TOKYO: Hikers attempting any of Mount Fuji’s four main trails will be charged an entry fee of 4,000 yen ($27) from this summer, after local authorities passed a bill on Monday.
    A record influx of foreign tourists to Japan has sparked alarm about overcrowding on the nation’s highest mountain, a once-peaceful pilgrimage site.
    Last year, Yamanashi region – home to Mount Fuji – introduced a 2,000 yen ($14) entry fee plus an optional donation for the active volcano’s most popular…

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  • Bangladesh’s Yunus to visit China this month

    Bangladesh’s Yunus to visit China this month


    MONTEAL: With Canada’s economy and even sovereignty under unprecedented threat from its southern neighbor the United States, its new leader has embarked on a trans-Atlantic trip to strengthen ties with traditional friends France and Britain.

    Just days into his mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney faces threats on three fronts: A trade war with the Washington, US President Donald Trump’s threats to annex his country, and looming domestic elections.

    But,…

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  • Deadly nightclub blaze leaves North Macedonia in grief and desperate for accountability

    Deadly nightclub blaze leaves North Macedonia in grief and desperate for accountability

    KOCANI, North Macedonia: After North Macedonia’s deadliest tragedy in recent memory, with dozens dying in a nightclub inferno, the Balkan nation is struggling to grapple with so many young lives lost while trying to hold those responsible to account and prevent another calamity.
    The massive fire tore through the overcrowded nightclub early Sunday in the eastern town of Kocani leaving 59 people dead and 155 injured from burns, smoke inhalation and being trampled in the panicked escape…

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