12-06-2024 NEW YORK: The world’s first AI beauty pageant, Miss AI, is set to redefine our understanding of beauty and technology. Organized by Fanvue, a platform for AI-generated creators, the contest celebrates the creativity and technical skill behind digital influencer personas worldwide. Most interestingly, the panel of judges will also …

12-06-2024 BEIJING: Four US college instructors teaching in China have been stabbed while visiting a public park, US officials have said. The tutors from Cornell College in Iowa were at the park in Jilin province, north-eastern China with a faculty member from Beihua University on Monday when the attack occurred, …

12-06-2024 GENEVA: The UN human rights office said on Tuesday the killings of civilians in Gaza during the Israeli operation to free four hostages, as well as Palestinian armed groups’ holding of captives in densely populated areas, could amount to war crimes. Israel said the operation, accompanied by an air …

12-06-2024 THE HEGUE: The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Chief prosecutor has appealed to witnesses to send evidence to aid an urgent investigation opened by his office into allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region. Sudan has been mired in war since April last year when …

12-06-2024 LILONGWE: Rescue teams in Malawi have found the wreckage of a plane that was carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima but reported that there were no survivors. The remains of the military plane were located on Tuesday in a mountainous area in the north of the country, a day after …

12-06-2024 TEL AVIV/ CAIRO: Hamas accepts a UN resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday in what the US Secretary of State called “a hopeful sign”. Conversations on …

11-06-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council has voted to support a US-proposed Israel-Gaza ceasefire plan. The proposal sets out conditions for a “full and complete ceasefire”, the release of hostages held by Hamas, the return of dead hostages’ remains and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners. Fourteen of the …

11-06-2024 DAMASCUS/ JERUSALEM: Israel has intensified covert strikes in Syria against weapons sites, supply routes and Iranian-linked commanders, seven regional officials and diplomats said, ahead of a threatened full-scale assault on Tehran’s key ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. A June 2 air raid that killed 18 people, including an adviser with …

11-06-2024 OSLO: More armed conflicts took place in 2023 than in any other year since the end of World War II, a new study has found. The Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) said 59 armed conflicts took place worldwide last year, led by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. …

11-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ JAMMU: Nine people have died and 33 injured after suspected militants fired on a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in the Indian federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir, police officials said. Officials had initially said after the incident that the death toll was 10, …