11-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday he did not view this year’s two-month general elections as a free exercise, but rather as one structured to deliver an advantage to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, without citing evidence but Modi suffered a rare …

11-09-2024 LUXEMBOURG: Apple has been told to pay €13bn (£11bn; $14bn) in unpaid taxes to Ireland by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The European Commission accused Ireland of giving Apple illegal tax advantages eight years ago but the Irish government has consistently argued against the need for the tax …

11-09-2024 BEIJING:  row has erupted on Chinese social media over the use of air conditioners in classrooms as the country endures an unseasonal heatwave. Parents in some of China’s hottest cities have called on schools to install air conditioners as temperatures surpass 35C. The conversation heated up in the southern …

11-09-2024 BRUSSELS: Europe’s top court has ruled Google must pay a €2.4bn (£2bn) fine handed down for abusing the market dominance of its shopping comparison service. The tech giant had appealed against the fine, which was originally levied by the European Commission in 2017. It was at the time the …

11-09-2024 DILI, TIMOR-LESTE: Some 600,000 people have gathered in a field outside Timor-Leste’s capital Dili for one of the biggest masses of Pope Francis’s papacy. The open-air congregation represents nearly half the population of the small Southeast Asian country one of the most Roman Catholic places on Earth and the …

11-09-2024 DEIR AL-BALAH/ GAZA STRIP: An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza martyred at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted “significant” Hamas militants and disputed the death toll. It was among …

10-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s health ministry says it has recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus. The young male patient has been isolated in a hospital and is in stable condition, …

10-09-2024 KINSHASA: It has been a year since the first outbreak of a new more deadly variant of the mpox virus was first reported in central Africa. Since the start of the year, more than 20,000 cases and well over 500 deaths, most of them children, have been officially reported, …

10-09-2024 ALGIERS: Algeria’s incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78, has been re-elected to the position with an emphatic vote; says the country’s electoral authority. “Of 5,630,000 voters recorded, 5,320,000 voted for the independent candidate Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accounting for 94.65 percent” of Saturday’s vote, National Independent Authority for Elections (ANIE) head Mohamed …

10-09-2024 MADRIS: Madrid says it would grant political asylum to Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, who has arrived in Spain after a month in hiding in the crisis-hit South American country. Gonzalez, accompanied by his spouse, travelled on a Spanish military aeroplane which landed around 04:00pm at the Torrejon air …