By By ELAINE KURTENBACHAP Business Writer Bangkok, March 5 European shares slipped onThursday despite rebounds in Asia and on Wall Street, as Iran launched new attacks and threatened the US. US futures also fell back, with the contract for the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 0.5 per cent, while that for the S&P 500 shed […]
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By K J M Varma Beijing, March 5 China on Thursday hiked its defence budget to about 1.91 trillion yuan (USD 277 billion), an increase of seven per cent from last year in yuan terms, as part of its efforts to ramp up rapid modernisation of armed forces to catch up with the US military. […]
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Colombo, March 5 Sri Lanka on Thursday said it is deliberating appropriate action after a second Iranian ship has sought entry to its territorial waters, a day after a frigate belonging to the Islamic country was attacked near the island nation. Sri Lanka on Wednesday said it had recovered over 80 bodies of Iranian sailors […]
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By By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, ELENA BECATOROS and Dubai, March 5 Iranian state television aired a message Thursday from an ayatollah in Iran calling for the “shedding” of blood from Israelis and US President Donald Trump. The message came from Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli and represented one of the few clerical statements coming from […]
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By By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, ELENA BECATOROS and Dubai, March 5 Iran’s foreign minister said Thursday that America “will come to bitterly regret (the) precedent it has set” after a US submarine sank an Iranian frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka. The comment by Abbas Araghchi represents the first Iranian government acknowledged of […]
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By Shirishi B Pradhan Kathmandu, March 5 Nepal which went to polls on Thursday morning, the first since a violent Gen Z protest that toppled the K P Sharma Oli-led government last year, recorded a turnout of about six per cent till 9.30 am, according to the Election Commission. Nepalese citizens on Thursday morning started […]
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By By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, ELENA BECATOROS and Dubai, March5 Iran launched new wave of attacks Thursday morning at Israeli and American bases following a threat to destroy military and economic infrastructure across the region, which came after the US and Israel intensified their bombardment of Iran and a US Navy submarine sank an […]
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By Yoshita Singh United Nations, March 5 India has called on the international community to act together against ISIS and Al Qaeda and their proxies, underlining that terrorism is an “existential threat” to international peace and security. “Terrorism is an existential threat to international peace and security. It knows no borders, nationality, or race, and […]
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The North News New Delhi, March 3 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke to Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of Oman and Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and expressed concern over attacks on their countries during the ongoing conflict in West Asia, officials said. In his telephonic conversations, Modi also […]
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London, March 3 With oil prices soaring and stocks tanking, the fast-evolving Iran war has cast a pall over the economic forecasts that British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is set to unveil on Tuesday. Reeves had hoped her statement to the House of Commons would be a relatively low-key affair, with the forecasts showing the […]
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