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Error 404: 48 hours of confusion in Afghanistan during internet blackout
AFP, Published on 03/10/2025
» KABUL — Paralysed banks, grounded planes and chaotic hospitals: for two days, life ground to a halt in Afghanistan after the Taliban unexpectedly cut off the internet and phone networks.
Emirates expands electronics restrictions with power bank ban
Published on 08/08/2025
» Emirates will ban the use of power banks aboard its flights and only allow passengers to bring one such device onto the plane, further restricting travellers from carrying electronic gadgets on aircraft.
Two fake policemen nabbed
Post Reporters, Published on 30/11/2024
» Two Thai men have been arrested for posing as police to rob Vietnamese tourists in Bangkok.
Emirates bans pagers, walkie-talkies on flights
Published on 05/10/2024
» Emirates airline has prohibited passengers from carrying pagers or walkie-talkies on all flights flying to, from or via Dubai, according to a travel update issued on Friday night.
Will he? Won't he? What will Netanyahu do?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/10/2024
» Will Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, really launch a full-scale war against Lebanon-based Hezbollah when Israel is still fighting Hamas in Gaza? Of course he will.
Israel on high alert after killing Hezbollah chief
Published on 28/09/2024
» Israel is on high alert for a broader conflict after the elimination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, but hopes his death will cause the Iran-backed group to change course, a military spokesman said on Saturday.
Israel rejects cease-fire talks, keeps up attacks in Lebanon
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/09/2024
» TEL AVIV - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the military would maintain its bombardment of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon indefinitely, undermining efforts by the United States and allies to secure a cease-fire that would ease the risk of a regional war.
Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill nearly 500, injure 1,600
New York Times, Published on 24/09/2024
» JERUSALEM — Dozens of Israeli fighter jets bombed Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing hundreds and wounding more than a thousand others, Lebanese officials said, in the deadliest attacks in the country since 2006, when Israel and Hezbollah fought their last all-out war.
Hezbollah, Israel exchange heavy fire after deadly Israeli strike
Published on 22/09/2024
» BEIRUT/CAIRO - Israel and Lebanon exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, with Israeli warplanes carrying out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of war across Lebanon's south, while Hezbollah claimed rocket attacks on military targets in Israel's north.
Israeli strike on Beirut kills 37
Reuters, Published on 21/09/2024
» BEIRUT - At least 37 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday, including three children and seven women along with 16 Hezbollah fighters, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday.