18-11-2024 AMSTERDAM: Western media outlets have come under fire from pro-Palestinian activists and journalists over their coverage of clashes in Amsterdam last week between locals and travelling Israeli football fans, with accusations of deliberate disinformation and inaccurate framing. Dozens of people have been arrested after supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv …

18-11-2024 GAZA CITY: Israel’s military continues to pound Gaza, killing at least 51 more Palestinians on Saturday as Israeli settlers stormed the occupied West Bank village of Beit Furik and set fire to homes and vehicles. Two more Lebanese paramedics were killed in an Israeli drone attack on southern Nabatieh …

18-11-2024 PARIS: After 10 weeks, the mass rape trial that has shocked France is moving on to the final phase of closing statements. The case focuses on a formerly married couple, Dominique and Gisele Pelicot, pensioners who are now in their early 70s. Pelicot’s legal team will give their final …

18-11-2024 KYIV: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is certain the war with Russia will “end sooner” than it otherwise would have once Donald Trump becomes US president. Zelensky said he had a “constructive exchange” with Trump during their phone conversation after his victory in the US presidential election. He …

17-11-2024 PARIS: A French court has ordered the release of a Lebanese person jailed for the killings of US and Israeli diplomats in France in the early 1980s. On Friday, prosecutors said Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a former head of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Brigade, first detained in 1984 and convicted …

17-11-2024 BEIRUT: The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has deplored the Israeli strike on a Lebanese civil defence centre where “at least 12 paramedics were killed”, saying such attacks “are becoming the new normal”. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said that Israeli attacks killed 59 people and …

17-11-2024 NEW DELHI: India’s government banned non-essential construction in New Delhi, the world’s most polluted capital, and urged residents to avoid burning coal for heating, to combat worsening air quality that has disrupted flights and obscured the Taj Mahal. The new measures, which include sprinkling water with dust suppressants on …

17-11-2024 BEIRUT/ TEHRAN: Iran backs any decision taken by Lebanon in talks to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, signaling Tehran wants to see an end to a conflict that has dealt heavy blows to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. Israel launched airstrikes in the …

17-11-2024 PARIS: One of the innovations at this year’s Paris Olympics was supposed to be an electric flying taxi service. Germany’s Volocopter promised its electric-powered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city. It never happened. Instead the company ran demonstration flights. While missing that deadline was …

17-11-2024 BAKU: The Azerbaijani government is using COP29 to crack down on environmental activists and other political opponents, according to human rights groups. This is the third year in a row a country hosting the climate summit has been accused of oppression and curtailing the legal right to protest. Climate …