20-08-2024 LONDON: UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of the United Kingdom’s counterterrorism strategy on how to best tackle threats by “extremist ideologies” including misogyny. Other ideological trends to be investigated by the Home Office include “Islamism” and far-right “extremism”. Cooper said the strategy will “map and …

20-08-2024 KHARTOUM: Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed dozens people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks, health authorities said. Health Minister Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim said in a statement on Sunday that at least 22 people have died from the disease, and that at least …

20-08-2024 DHAKA: Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, has delivered his first major government policy address in which he promised to support the Rohingya community seeking refuge in the country and maintain Bangladesh’s garment trade. Setting out his priorities in front of diplomats and UN representatives on Sunday, Yunus …

20-08-2024 BANGKOK: Thailand’s king has endorsed Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the country’s new prime minister two days after parliament elected her. Paetongtarn, 37, was sworn in on Sunday, becoming the youngest prime minister of Thailand. She nabbed the spot just days after Srettha Thavisin was dismissed as premier by the Constitutional …

19-08-2024 KHARTOUM: The international mediators engaged in talks to bring Sudan’s war to an end have welcomed decisions by the warring sides to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian relief to the country. In a joint statement on Saturday, the sponsors of the talks in Switzerland lauded the paramilitary Rapid Support …

19-08-2024 NEW DELHI: The probe covers hot-rolled flat products of alloy or non-alloy steel originating in or exported from Vietnam, according to a notification by the directorate general of trade remedies (DGTR). The products fall under the HS codes 7208, 7211, 7225 and 7226. The Indian Steel Association had filed …

19-08-2024 RAMALLAH/ WEST BANK: Israel said it killed two senior Hamas militants in an airstrike on their car in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, claiming they were involved in the killing of an Israeli. A joint statement from the Israel Security Agency and the Israel Defense Forces …

19-08-2024 BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA: A police sniper potentially saved lives by shooting the rifle of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin and knocking him down, an investigation says. According to a report by Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins, the sniper’s bullet damaged Thomas Matthew Crooks’s gun and disrupted his aim after he took his …

19-08-2024 DHAKA: The videos are shocking: buildings burning, horrifying violence and women weeping as they plead for help. They are, the people sharing them say, proof of a “Hindu genocide” happening in Bangladesh in the wake of the sudden fall of the country’s long-time leader, Sheikh Hasina. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who …

19-08-2024 WASHINGTON: When Kamala Harris steps onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week as the party’s presidential nominee, she’ll do so knowing that many in the audience cheering her on once counted her out. Harris, 59, has faced years of doubt from some within her …