01-06-2024 NEW YORK: Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution. After Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime, his supporters responded with …

01-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUNGESHPUR: Several people have died due to heat-related ailments over the past 24 hours as temperatures continue to soar in northern and central India. Ten fatalities were recorded at the government hospital in Odisha’s Rourkela region on Thursday, authorities told media. Heat-stroke related …

01-06-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israeli forces have pulled out of Jabalia in northern Gaza, after a three-week offensive there which saw tens of thousands of civilians flee the area. The military said “hundreds of terrorists (had been) eliminated” and 10km (6 miles) of tunnels destroyed during the operation. Pictures from …

01-06-2024 PRETORIA: South African political parties geared up for coalition talks on Friday as the governing African National Congress (ANC) looked set to fall well short of a majority in this week’s election for the first time in 30 years of democracy. With results in from 57.3 per cent of …

01-06-2024 WASHINGTON: The James Webb Space Telescope has smashed its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy. Called JADES-GS-z14-0, the collection of stars was spied as it was a mere 290 million years after the Big Bang. Put another way if the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, …

31-05-2024 NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his New York criminal hush money trial, making him the first former US president to be convicted in the country’s history. The jury held deliberations for two days. The Jury has set July 11 …

31-05-2024 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ BEIJING: Pakistan launched its latest modern communication satellite, the PAKSAT MM1, into space on Thursday, weeks after its ICUBE-Qamar (ICUBE-Q) entered lunar orbit. ICUBE-Q was launched into space on May 3 aboard China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission from Hainan, China. A major milestone in Pakistan’s space exploration …

31-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Indian shares fell for a fifth straight session on Thursday, pressured by weakness in global peers, while some investors’ trimmed positions ahead of federal election results. The NSE Nifty 50 (.NSEI), opens new tab closed down about 1% at 22,488 points, while …

31-05-2024 VICTORIA: Hong Kong has found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law. They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of 2019 such as nurse Winnie …

31-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: Pressure is growing on US President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to use West-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory. A number of US allies this week signaled they were open to this possibility. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has warned of “serious consequences”, especially for what he called “small …