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July 30, 2026


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NEW DELHI:  Bollywood actress Vaant ‘Kapoor
presents a creation by desic igner Dolly J during the
Hyundal India Couture Week here on Wednesday.”
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: Oscar. -winning Irish musician :
‘Glen Hansard dies in motorcycle crash:

DUBLIN: Oscar-winning Lrish musician and actor Glen
Hansard, who starred in the 1901 cult film “The Conunit-
Taents”, died on Wednesday, his agent said, with reports

ing he was killed in a motorcycle crash. eae

“With broken hearts we announce the      of Glen
Haresard inthe early hours ofthis morning, his agent ATC

said ina post on Hansard’s website.::

. Family and friends of the 56-year-old were “dealing with
the shock of it all’, the agent sald, without saying how he
died. —AFP ©

‘Indian forces arrest senior:
___,_.Maoist rebel leader,

a * PATNA, India: Indian security forces have arrested a
Maoist leader believed to be one of the last senior mem-
bers of a decades long insurgency in the county, @ , Offictals
saidon
. In March, New Delhi declared victory over the Mao-
istinspired movement, which at its peak controlled nearly
athird of India with an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 fighters,
.. Security forces have continued to pursue the move-
tment’s remaining operations in several states, —AFP ph

‘Israel police arrest suspect seen *
attacking F Palestinians

OCCUPIED ‘AL-QUDS: Tsracti police ¢ on 1 Wednesday ‘sald
they arrested an Isracli settler suspected of violently
assaulting Palestinians in the occupt        Bank
wearing mibtary uniform in June. “>:

“The atfacke took place on June 6 in the Palestinian town
of Huwara in the northem West Bank, amid       settler

shows multiple assailants pushing tw
round and physically assaulting them. :
One of the atlackers, wearing
can be seen repeatedly punching a Palestinian ying « on
the floor. AFP:

* Rescuers search for survivors after *
: _Powerfel Japan quake kills

ly
damaged ashopping wall and 9 factory in Japan killed at
least 13 people, officials said on Wednesday, as rescuers.
desperately tried to reach survivors feared trapped in the

Peop
te tremor hat rtrd a te it evel on pas
shindo scale of seismic shaking, —AFP,

Prince Harry, other claimants may have’

case against Associated
allegations of ulavetil information gathering and invasions
of, privacy, —AFP

Malaysia says Myanmar to take back’
“+ 5,000 Rohingya refugees ”

KUALA LUMPUR: Myanmar has agreed to take back
6,000 Rohingya from Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur sald on
Wednesday, in a rare repatriation push announced
days after Malaysian authorities had detained dozens of
refugees. *                  se

“ Malaysia hosts more than 215,000 refagees and asytum
seekers registered with the UN refugee agency, including
more than 126,000 members of Myanmar’s persecuted
Rohingya minority, making them the country’s largest ref-
ugee coranunity. AFP,                ze

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Russia Jails journalist for 12 123 years
~* @ntreason charge: © ~

SOSCOW:  Russian joumalist Darya Shipacheva was con-
vieted of treason by a Moscow court and sentenced on
Wednesday to 12 years ina peral colony, the Interfax news

és. The tial was held behind closed doors and no details
of the case were officially released. Interfox, fax, citing other
media, reported that the charges sternmed from  man alicged
Tooney transfer to Ukraine, Reuters . :

 Body of British woman found in «
" suitcase in Athens:

ATHENS: Greek police are trying to determine the circum.
stances of a British woman's death after she was found
in a suitcase in Athens this month, state TV ERT said on
Wednesday.» ”

the station sad Interpol duta had peed Klerify the
38-year-old, who is believed to have travell
from Cyprus eartier this month. —AFP **


Any plan that ignores.

Turkish-Cypriot rights
doomed: Erdogan

ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s Pres- coms the recognition of the
ident Recep Tayyip Erdo- sovereign equality and equal
gan said on Wednesday that international status of the
any initiative ignoring the Turkish Cypriot people,” he
sovereign rights of Turkish said.
Cypriots was doomed to
failure, after UN chief Anto- seeking to confine Turkish
nlo Guterres visited dived Cypriots to minority status
Opns . -               had failed In the past and
‘The Cypriot question argued that calm on the

cannot be reduced (oasimple [sland could be achieved only | jf

debate over power-sharing througha fair, lasting and sus-
between two communities,” tainable settlement.

he said. “Fundamentally, it
concerns the recognition of Guterres’ visit as significant,

the sovereign equality and noting that he was the first

international status of the UN sccrctary-gencral totravel
Turkish-Cypriot people.”- Cee
Speaking after a Cabinet — He said Turkiye had con-

Erdogan said formulas|f

Erdogan described|P"

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meeting at the presidential sistently supported Guterres’ | LMA, Peru: Peru's President Keiko Fujimori Steps out oft the Congress after belng sworn in as the country’s new
complex, Erdogan said the peace efforts and would con- | president, here on Wednesday. —flevters wrephoto ~

Former top US Covid expert.
Fauci declines to answer
hostile Senate questioning

WASHINGTON,  United the origins ofthe pandemic | to ‘entrap him ina slip-up. “congressional oversight”
States: The former top US began in a lab and were cove that could result in perjury Pau! opened with a tirade

Cyprus issue could not be tinue chse consultations with
reduced to a technical pow. him. Erdogan warned that
ersharing dispute between  approaches ignoring histor»
two communities, ~~ ~      ical realities could not pro-

*Fundamentally, it con- ducea viable outcome--AFP

Fed holds rates steady;
three policymakers dissent
in favour of a hike

WASHINGTON: The Fed-
eral Reserve held interest
rates steady on Wednesday,
a choice that may intensify

questions about how US cen:
tral bank chief Kevin Warsh to
will deliver on his commit-
ment to bring inflation back
down to the 2 per cent target,

up demand.
vated relative to the Commit.

* The widely expected deck
sion to leave the benchmark
Interest rate in the 3.50 por
cont3.75 per cent range drew
dissents from Unree of the 12
members of the

policysctting
Federal Open Market Com: the eco.

Taittee who “preferred” a quar-
ter-percentage-point hike at
this mecting Those same three,
the presidents of the Fed's

teo's 2 per cent goal,” the Fed
said in a short policy state.
ment after the end of its Latest
twoday meeting It replicated
word for word all of the June

The Fed Fed said economic
activity is “expanding at a
solid pace,” noting, as it did
in June, that job gains *have

Cleveland, Dallas and Minne- kept pace with the workforce,


acter:

in the long-running feud

month was accelerating as the | Infectious discase official on ered up,               charges. .               against Fauct, repeating:
war in the Middle Esst pushed  Wednesday faced adversarial       Paul had subpoenaed the,      “The only conchusion Ican’ sations that under Fauci’s
‘up global fuel and food prices, | questioning from Republican now-retired Fauci to testify  “peach fs that the sole reason. watch at the National Institute
and investment In data cen-| senators about the origins of before the committee, and he is calling me before this of Allergy and Infectious Dis-
ters and ot and other spending tied | Covid-19, and on the advice prior to the hearing released committee is to get me to eases, the US funded socalled
artificial intelligence drove | of lawyers invoked his consti- thousands of pages of the say something, anything, that “gain-of-function” research
“ov Ttutional right not to answer, immunologist’s personal could vindicate his repeated in China that triggered the
+P cinflation remains ele-| casting the hearing a3 a char diary.

~ Citing Paut’s “obsession”

assassination,         .
It was the latest twist wrth hine Foucisabd vewould bars,” Fau

invoke the Fifth Amendment, .

accu.

public pledges that I end up, spread of Covid-l9,
in his words, quote ‘behind ... The senator insists Fauch
icisakL                   lied about that to Congress,

Fauci, 85, noted in hts which he has repeatedly

between Anthony Fauci, who refraining from answering  opening Statement that he denied ~

spent decades as the nation’s questions toavold self-incrim- had testified before Congress

More than six years after

lop expert in infectious dis- ination, adding thal it ‘pains more than 200 times over the pandemic’s onset, the
Hrsatement’s asesement of ease, and Republican Senator me to.doso.”           ”

Rand Paul, who insists on

Fauci indicated his law.

nearly four decades, saying debate over whether Covid-
“‘] proved that I believe in and 19 Ieaked from a lab remains

unsubstantiated claims that yers believed Paul intended respect the value of legitimate intense. —AFP -


Italy passes’

apolis regional banks, ha also and the unemployment rate| law to release

dissented at Jerome Powell's has changed litue.”

final meeting as central bank -_ In leaving the policy rate] thousands of

chief in late Apeil, that time in  pinned  in the range it has
favor of removing the Implied been since December, Fed
promise oflower rates, =~ ~~ policymakers are embracing

Warsh, who took over as the idea that current borrow.
head of the Fed in May, has ing costs are creating enough

inmates with
‘addictions

sald he has “no tolerance” friction in the economy to] -- =

for inflation that has been reduce any Inflation that
running above the central isn't, like the effect of tariffs
bank's target for more than on goods prices, expected to
Give years, and up until last fade on its own —Reuters

Wildfire threat moving
east, threatening Italy and
"Greece, says EU

BRUSSELS: Greece, Italy will fce visk at the beginning
and Central Europe are set of August, and we will need to


to face heightened wildfire sce what will happen with the|the worst overcrowdi