20-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year, a move that Palestine hailed as “historic”. The nonbinding measure passed a 124-12 vote on Wednesday, with 43 countries abstaining. The …

20-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ CHENNAI: For the past 11 days, about 1,500 workers of South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics have been striking work in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, leading to major disruptions in production. The plant in Chennai city, one of Samsung’s two …

20-09-2024 BOGOTA: Water levels in many of the rivers in the Amazon basin have reached their lowest on record amid a continuing drought, the Brazilian Geological Service (SGB) says. The Madeira River, a major tributary to the Amazon, had fallen to just 48cm in the city of Porto Velho on …

20-09-2024 BRASILIA/ NEW YORK: Some X users in Brazil have said they can once again access the social media website, media has learned. This comes after the platform, formerly known as Twitter, was banned in the country on 30 August. The change was made possible after the company, which is …

20-09-2024 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: Iranian hackers distributed hacked information about Donald Trump’s electoral campaign to people linked to the Biden campaign, according to the FBI and US intelligence agencies. US officials now believe that information taken from the Trump campaign was sent in unsolicited emails to people linked to the campaign …

19-09-2024 BEIRUT: At least 20 people have been killed and more than 450 wounded by a second wave of explosions from wireless communication devices in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says. Walkie-talkies used by the armed group Hezbollah blew up in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, the Bekaa …

19-09-2024 DUBLIN: More than 50 people have been arrested as part of a major international investigation which dismantled an encrypted communication platform. The platform, known as Ghost, was used to facilitate a wide range of criminal activities, including large-scale drug trafficking, money laundering, instances of extreme violence and other forms …

19-09-2024 LA PAZ: A simmering political battle between former allies is threatening to boil over into an all-out struggle for power after Bolivia’s popular and controversial former leftist president, Evo Morales, called on supporters to take to the streets in protest against current President Luis Arce. Morales announced a weeklong …

19-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: Starvation in war-stricken Sudan “is almost everywhere”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has told media after visiting the country. “The situation in Sudan is very alarming… the massive displacement, it’s now the largest in the world, and, of course, famine,” director-general Tedros Adhanom …

19-09-2024 COLOMBO: “I thought I’d spend my whole life here, fighting a corrupt government but the younger generation did something.” Samadhi Paramitha Brahmananayake is looking at the field where she spent months camped out with thousands of other demonstrators in Sri Lanka’s capital in 2022. She can’t quite believe that …