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NEW DELHI 24 Mar (Online): India’s parliament disqualified the leader of the opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday, a day after a magistrate’s court jailed him for two years in a defamation case linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname. Gandhi “stands disqualified from […]

Beirut, March 24 (AFP/APP): Fourteen fighters were killed in US air strikes on Syria carried out in retaliation for a drone attack that killed an American and wounded six others, a war monitor said Friday. A US contractor was killed, and another contractor and five […]

New Delhi, March 24 (AFP/APP):Top opposition figure Rahul Gandhi was expelled from India’s parliament on Friday, a day after his defamation conviction for a remark seen as an insult against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi’s government has been widely accused of using the law to […]

Paris, March 24 (AFP/APP): A planned visit to France from Sunday by King Charles III has been postponed due to ongoing protests over pension reform, the French presidency announced. “Given the announcement yesterday of another national day of protests against pension reform on Tuesday March […]

Washington, March 23 (AFP/APP):The United States is working to assist 44 Americans who want to leave Afghanistan and several others detained by Taliban authorities, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday. Blinken was speaking before Congress where lawmakers from the rival Republican Party went on […]

LONDON 23 Mar (Online): A group of Jews living in the UK held a demonstration Wednesday in London to protest the Israeli government’s “apartheid policies.” Some 30 people took part in the protest held by the Jewish activist group Na’amod outside the UK Foreign Office, […]

NEW DELHI 23 Mar (Online): A court in western India found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation on Thursday for a speech he made in 2019 in which he referred to thieves as having the surname Modi, and sentenced him two years in prison. […]

Athens, March 22 (AFP/APP): Some intercity rail travel resumed in Greece on Wednesday for the first time since a head-on collision killed 57 people in the nation’s worst rail disaster more than three weeks ago, operator Hellenic Train said. Several passenger services were back on […]

London, March 22 (AFP/APP): UK lawmakers endorsed Wednesday a crucial part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s post-Brexit deal with the EU to overhaul Northern Irish trade rules, despite a rebellion by ex-leader Boris Johnson and other Conservative eurosceptics. The vote on the so-called “Stormont brake” […]

Shaykh al Hadid, Syria, March 22 (AFP/APP):Umm Esmat, a mother living in war-torn Syria, is preparing for the onset of Ramadan this year with a heavy heart, after a deadly earthquake forced her from her home. Now displaced in the rebel-held countryside of northern Syria, […]