Published by Al-Araby Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has put off a trip planned for later this week to India, his office said on Tuesday, after he tested positive for Covid. “Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s trip to India has been postponed and will be rescheduled,” the office said in a statement. The three-day trip, organised
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Published by Reuters UK LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine hopes to open three humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from besieged towns and cities on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. She said this would include trying to establish a safe corridor for people to leave the encircled southern port city of Mariupol in private
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Published by Reuters By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is expected on Monday to ask Congress for record peacetime military spending while raising taxes from billionaires and projecting lower government deficits. Biden’s budget proposal for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 lays out his administration’s priorities but it is merely a
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Published by Reuters UK By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices tumbled more than $5 on Monday as fears over weaker fuel demand in China grew after financial hub Shanghai launched a two-stage lockdown to contain a surge in COVID-19 infections. The market kicked off another week of uncertainty, buffeted on one side by
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Published by Reuters By Andrew Mills and Ghaida Ghantous DOHA (Reuters) – U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Sunday he was not confident that a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran was imminent, dampening expectations after 11 months of talks in Vienna that have stalled. The failure of efforts to restore
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Published by DPA US President Joe Biden’s comment that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” continued to generate outrage in Moscow on Sunday. Prominent Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in parliament’s upper house, claimed Biden made statements with “frightening regularity” that are worse than crimes. There had been
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Published by Al-Araby A Yemeni rebel attack on a Saudi oil plant set off a huge fire near Jeddah’s Formula One circuit during televised practice sessions on Friday, part of a wave of assaults on Aramco facilities. Smoke billowed near the circuit and the second practice was delayed in the attack, one of 16 drone-and-missile
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Published by Al-Araby The war in Ukraine has killed 136 children in the 31 days since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s office of the prosecutor general has said early today in a message on the Telegram app. Of the total, 64 children have been killed in the Kyiv region, the office said. A
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Published by Reuters UK By Gleb Garanich and Natalia Zinets MARIUPOL/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pushed for further talks with Russia as Moscow signalled it was scaling back its ambitions to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the east after attacks elsewhere stalled. In an announcement on Friday appearing to
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Published by Reuters By Krishna N. Das and Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India said ties with China could not be normal until their troops pulled back from each other on the disputed border, but Beijing struck a conciliatory note during a meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi on Friday. Both nations have
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