Male, March 21 Raymond Group Chairman & Managing Director Gautam Hari Singhania has sustained injuries, while two Indian nationals are reported missing after a speedboat capsized near Felidhoo island in the Maldives, according to local media reports. There were seven people on board at the time of the incident near Vaavu atoll early Friday morning. […]
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By Jon Gambrell , MichelleI L. Price and Julie Watso Dubai, March 21 US President Donald Trump said he was considering “winding down” military operations in the Middle East even as the United States is sending three more amphibious assault ships and roughly 2,500 additional Marines to the region. Trump’s post on Friday on social […]
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By Marcia Dunnap Cape Canaveral, March 20 For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month. If the latest repairs work and everything else goes NASA’s way, the Space Launch System could blast […]
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By Hanna Arhirova Kyiv, March 20 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he sent an official delegation to the US in a bid to move forward suspended negotiations on ending Russia’s invasion of his country. A senior Kremlin official also indicated Friday that a new round of US-brokered talks between Moscow and Kyiv will likely take […]
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By Jon Gambrell and David Rising Dubai, March 20 Israel’s military said Friday it struck sites in Syria in response to attacks against the Druze. The army said it struck infrastructure belonging to Syria in response to attacks on Druze population in Sweida in southern Syria. Syria’s state-run SANA news agency did not immediately acknowledge […]
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Kyiv, March 20 With US-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbour that could put even more pressure on Kyiv. Windfall revenues from surging global oil prices are filling […]
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By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING Dubai, March 20 A Kuwaiti oil refinery came under attack early Friday from Iranian drones and sirens sounded in Israel warning of incoming fire, while explosions boomed over Tehran as Israel hit Iran as the country marked the Persian New Year. As the war that has rocked the global […]
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Dubai, March 19 Kuwait said Thursday a drone attack sparked a fire at an oil refinery in the small, oil-rich nation. The state-run KUNA news agency cited the Kuwait Petroleum Corp. for the announcement. It said the drone attack sparked a fire at the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery but caused no injuries. The refinery is one […]
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By Gurdip Singh Singapore, March 18 Singapore’s iconic Indian vegetarian restaurant, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hosted to a meal by then-Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has been closed for nearly two months, with intense speculation surrounding the future of the eatery in the Little India precinct here. One of the oldest Indian-origin […]
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By JON GAMBRELL Dubai, March 18 Iran and Russia both allege a projectile struck the grounds of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Islamic Republic, raising the spectre of a radiological incident as Tehran’s war with Israel and the United States rages. Neither Iran nor Russia say there was any release of nuclear material […]
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