PARIS: A strike on a Gaza hospital compound which health officials there said killed at least 200 people has provoked outrage and condemnation from around the world, with protests on the streets of Amman, Tunis, Beirut and Tehran. The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the territory, accused Israel of being behind the strike. The …
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WHEN Israel told residents of Gaza to leave their homes in the densely populated Palestinian enclave ahead of an expected ground offensive, Fawziya Shaheen, 90, recalled a dark chapter that is seared into the consciousness of Palestinians. The idea of leaving or being driven out of land on which they want to forge a state …
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MOSCOW: Russia has joined China in imposing restrictions on the import of fish and seafood from Japan, Russia’s agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday (Oct 16). Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean in August – a move that Tokyo says is safe – and …
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) raided three chicken processing factories operating in Batu Caves early this morning. During the surprise inspection at 2am, DBKL’s Health and Environment Department, led by deputy director-general Dr Nor Halizam Ismail discovered several violations, including the absence of slaughter license certificates and halal certification. DBKL revealed that …
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LONDON : British actor and two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine has said he will retire from acting, aged 90, following the release of his latest film. “I keep saying I’m going to retire. Well I am now,” Caine told BBC radio in an interview broadcast on Saturday. “I’ve figured I’ve had a picture where I’ve …
TUMPAT: A father and daughter were killed in an accident at Jalan Chabang Empat, here, this morning. In the 9.30am incident, Mohamad Khairani Mat Rani, 30, was killed after his motorcycle he was riding was hit by a four-wheel drive, before being crushed by another vehicle. His eldest daughter Nurul Anisya Adriana, 7, also died …
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has recorded an increase of 71.7 per cent year-on-year growth of air passenger traffic as compared to the previous year, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said. He said that as of September, a total of 62.83 million air passengers had gone through the country’s airports. “Last month alone we recorded 7.17 million passengers. …
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take immediate action to call on all parties to cease acts of violence amid clashes between Israel and Hamas in and around the Gaza Strip. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi noted that the wider Palestinian-Israeli conflict has claimed too many lives and …
DUBAI/GAZA/WASHINGTON: When Islamist group Hamas launched a spectacular attack against Israel, it also took aim at efforts to forge new regional security alignments that could threaten Palestinian aspirations for statehood and the ambitions of the group’s main backer Iran. Saturday’s assault, the biggest incursion into Israel in decades, coincides with U.S.-backed moves to push Saudi …
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JAKARTA: Indonesia is dousing forest fires with water sprayed from helicopters and inducing rain through cloudseeding, its environment minister said on Friday, but denied that hazardous haze was crossing borders, as neighbouring Malaysia has said. Traditional slash-and-burn methods are used almost every year to clear land in Indonesia for palm oil and pulp and paper …
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