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WASHINGTON: The United States is considering extending its travel ban to 36 more countries, a person who has seen the memo said Monday, marking a dramatic potential expansion of entry restrictions to nearly 1.5 billion people. The State Department early this month announced it was barring entry to citizens of 12 nations including Afghanistan, Haiti…
TEHRAN: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Monday that Israel’s campaign against Iran was “changing the face of the Middle East”, as the two countries traded heavy strikes for a fourth day. The remarks came hours after a dramatic attack on an Iranian state TV building, which forced a presenter to flee mid-broadcast and prompted…
WASHINGTON: U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled proposed changes to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that would make some business-related tax breaks permanent while making more limited the deduction for state and local income taxes, angering some colleagues in the House of Representatives. The different versions of the bill in the two…
WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday did not rule out plans to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying it would “end the conflict” between the two arch-foes. In a 20-minute interview with US network ABC News, the Israeli leader insisted his country’s deadly aggression to “defang” Iran was justified, and equated…
BELGRADE: The Serbian Parliament on Monday voted to allow the state to borrow 1.9 billion euros ($2.2 billion) from several French banks to finance the purchase of 12 Rafale fighter jets. Belgrade last August agreed to buy twelve Rafale aircraft – nine single-seat and three two-seat models – for 2.7 billion euros to replace its…
TEHRAN: Iran condemned Israel’s attack on a state TV building in Tehran on Monday as a “war crime”, and called on the UN Security Council to take action. The strike on the offices of IRIB during a live broadcast was a “wicked act” and a “war crime”, said foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei. “The UNSC…
KØGE: Denmark on Monday deployed two unmanned ships, developed by US company Saildrone, to bolster surveillance in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, Danish officials and the firm said. Two other drones were launched last week and are participating in the NATO mission Task Force X. These unmanned ships, which will be tested for…
PARIS: Residents of Tehran have fled the Iranian capital in large numbers in the face of Israeli bombardments, creating immense traffic jams on the main road heading north, according to social media content posted on Monday. Images verified by AFP, shot by a social media user from an overpass, showed near immobile traffic on a…
LONDON: The UK government announced Monday it would bring in tough new laws to “root out the scourge” of grooming gangs suspected of sexually exploiting thousands of girls and young women. “We will change the law to ensure that adults who engage in penetrative sex with a child under 16 face the most serious charge…
JERUSALEM: An Iranian missile struck an oil refinery in Israel’s coast city of Haifa on Sunday, killing three people, an Israeli official said after a gag order was lifted. The confirmation on Monday removed reporting restrictions imposed by Israel’s military censorship on the attack, part of the most intense confrontation in history between longtime foes…
