WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday, dismissing her claim that his criticism was endangering her and saying he did not believe anyone was targeting her. Greene said on Saturday that Trump’s online criticism had unleashed a surge of threats directed at her. On

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Police say 100 officers were injured in the protest, which came weeks after Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, was killed.

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BEIJING: A China Coast Guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a “rights enforcement patrol,” the China Coast Guard said in a statement, as Beijing ramps up tensions with Japan over its prime minister’s remarks on Taiwan. A diplomatic spat between China and Japan has intensified since Japanese

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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb on Saturday urged reforms to global climate-finance mechanisms, saying the Green Climate Fund was mired in “bureaucracy” and the Loss and Damage Fund had made little progress since its launch four years ago.

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LOS ANGELES: An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river doused Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged by wildfire. The National Weather Service in Los Angeles and Oxnard reported heavy rainfall at rates as heavy as an inch (2.5 centimeters) per hour

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KARACHI: Pakistan’s government announced on Sunday that it has kept the price of petrol unchanged and hiked that of diesel by Rs6 per liter for the next fortnight, a notification from the Finance Division said. As per the latest notification, the new price of high speed diesel has been fixed at Rs284.44 per liter from

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DUBAI: A new wave of Arab animators and writers is transforming what was once a niche art form into a medium of cultural expression, identity and resistance. From Riyadh to Beirut, creators are reclaiming the animated screen — long dominated by imported content — to tell stories that sound, look and feel distinctly Arab.

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DAMASCUS: Rockets were fired at a home in Syria’s capital on Friday night, wounding one person and causing damage, state media reported. It wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the rocket attack in Damascus’ western neighborhood of Mazzeh 86. An Associated Press journalist at the scene said that security forces cordoned off the area and

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First U.S. case of human bird flu in 9 months confirmed in Washington state  The Washington Post Washington resident infected with different strain of bird flu, health officials say  CBS News New form of bird flu hospitalizes Washington state resident  Los Angeles Times Bird flu reported in flock of Whatcom County birds, WA resident  Bellingham Herald 1st US human

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The Georgia congresswoman has criticised Trump’s focus on foreign policy and handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.

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