DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The temporary end to the strike came after […]
The British government’s agreement to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius addresses a “historic wrong,” the Mauritian foreign minister said Thursday, referring to the displacement of more than a thousand islanders some 50 years ago. Speaking on Sky News, Maneesh Gobin praised the deal as historic. “It augurs well for the two
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Over 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced and nearly 2,000 people killed in Israeli attacks over the last year, most of them within the past two weeks, local authorities say. Most of Lebanon’s shelters are full and people fleeing Israeli military strikes are increasingly sleeping out in the open on the street or in public parks,
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The Israeli military estimates it has killed around 250 Hezbollah fighters, including a number of battalion and company commanders, since the start of its ground operation in Lebanon earlier this week, a military spokesperson said on Friday, Reuters reported. Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said the military was still assessing the damage caused by airstrikes in
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A blockbuster film track has been voted the UK’s favourite noughties Bollywood tune. BBC Asian Network asked listeners to pick their Ultimate 00s Bollywood song from a shortlist of 50 tracks. The list was picked by a panel including station presenters Haroon Rashid, Nikita Kanda, Gagan Grewal and Vallisa Chauhan, along with industry experts Asim Burney, Natasha
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With the US presidential race merely weeks away, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has decided to target red states and rural regions. The strategy? To narrow the already narrow margins for her opponent, the former president, Donald Trump. With the US presidential election just weeks away, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala
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Former President Barack Obama is set to campaign for Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, across key battleground states. Obama’s first stop will be in Pittsburgh on October 10. It is unclear whether Harris will appear with him. Former US President Barack Obama will soon begin campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, 59, across key
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Iran leader Khamenei says Iran will not delay nor rush to confront Israel Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iran’s recent missile attack on Israel was “legal and legitimate” and was the minimum punishment for Israel’s “crimes.” Khamenei told a huge crowd during Friday prayer sermons that Iran will not “procrastinate
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Hezbollah launches over 100 rockets into Israel by 3 p.m. on Friday Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets from Lebanon into Israel by 3 p.m., the IDF reported on Friday.
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Russia has decided ‘at highest level’ to remove Taliban from list of terrorist groups Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organizations had been “taken at the highest level,” the state TASS news agency reported on Friday. The decision needs to be followed up
