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India closes Vedanta copper smelter permanently after bloody protest

THOOTHUKUDI: An Indian state on Monday ordered the permanent closure of a copper smelter run by London-listed Vedanta Resources after 13 people protesting to...

Israel closes Gaza border crossing

GAZA: Israel closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, a day after the terminal was damaged during protests by...

  MANILA: The Philippines shuttered its most famous holiday island Boracay to tourists on Thursday for a six-month clean-up, which the government has imposed with...

Saudi closes Ritz-Carlton Hotel detention centre

  RIYADH: Saudi Arabian authorities have released all remaining detainees from Riyadh’s opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which had been used as an interrogation centre in a...

IDF expands search for rabbi’s killers West Bank

NABLUS: Israeli forces set up roadblocks and deployed around a major Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank Nablus on Wednesday in a manhunt for...