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MOUNT ARAFAT: Nearly 2.5 million Muslim hajj pilgrims converged on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia yesterday to atone for their sins and seek God’s forgiveness, marshalled by tens of thousands of stewards in a bid to prevent any repetition of previous years’ deadly stampedes. Movable crowd control barriers were erected all around the foot of […]

TEHRAN: Iran unveiled a new air defense system yesterday it says is capable of detecting missiles and drones at a range of 400 km, ISNA news agency reported. The “Falagh” is a locally overhauled version of the imported “Gamma” surveillance radar, the semi-official news agency said, in an apparent reference to a Russian-made system of […]

NEW DELHI: Floods have killed at least 100 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across much of India with the southern state of Kerala worst hit, authorities said yesterday. With rains predicted to worsen in coming days, the government ordered military teams to form rescue units and airlift food to stranded villages across Kerala. At […]

ADEN: Yemen’s southern separatists took control of all government military camps in Aden yesterday, officials said, after four days of clashes between nominal allies who have turned on each other, complicating UN efforts to end the four-year war. The separatists also surrounded the all-but empty presidential palace of the internationally recognized government that is temporarily […]

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NEW YORK: Disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein has committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on charges that he trafficked underage girls for sex, officials and US news media reported yesterday. Epstein, a convicted pedophile who befriended numerous politicians and celebrities over the years, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center […]

MUZAFFARABAD: Three decades ago, Ali Mohamad says he made a trip into Indian-controlled Kashmir to join a small armed militant group. Now he works in a shop on the Pakistani side of the region, but he hasn’t given up thoughts of returning to the conflict. After the Indian government clamped down on Kashmir this week, […]

GROZNY: Mother of five Zalina Gabibulayeva says she was “tricked” into joining the jihadists in Syria five years ago. Now, repentant and repatriated to Russia’s Chechnya, she goes into schools to teach others of the dangers of extremism. Countries around the world are grappling with the question of how to treat citizens who travelled to […]