07-08-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel has returned the bodies of nearly 90 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said. Yamen Abu Suleiman, the director of the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, said on Monday that it was …

07-08-2024 DHAKA: The removal of Hasina on Monday followed weeks of deadly protests and appears to have averted the threat of further bloodshed. The focus now moves to who will control the South Asian country. In an address to the nation, army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced that an interim government …

07-08-2024 GAZA CITY: Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that at least 40 people were killed and 71 injured in Israeli attack over the past 24 hours. The “decomposed” bodies of almost 90 unidentified Palestinians who were killed and taken by Israeli forces have been returned to Gaza and buried in a …

07-08-2024 NEW YORK: A judge in the United States has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly for its search engine, exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation. Monday’s landmark decision that Google broke antitrust law marks the first major success for US …

06-08-2024 KHARTOUM: Sudan on Sunday denied the existence of famine in North Darfur’s Zamzam camp for internally displaced people, while an aid group said there was a risk of a severe shortage of special food designed to treat malnourished children in the camp. On Thursday, a global food monitor found …

06-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani, 62, plans to step down at the age of 70 and shift control to his sons and their cousins in the early 2030s, he told Bloomberg News in an interview published on Monday. When Adani retires, his four …

06-08-2024 SINGAPORE: Oil prices hovered at eight-month lows on Monday as fears of a recession in the United States, the world’s top oil consumer, offset concerns that escalating tensions in the Middle East may affect supplies from the largest producing region. Brent crude futures inched down 4 cents, or 0.1%, …

06-08-2024 LONDON/ Far-right demonstrators have vandalized a hotel housing asylum seekers in the northern England town of Rotherham, as the United Kingdom grapples with its worst riots in 13 years. On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered by a Holiday Inn Express hotel used to house asylum seekers near Rotherham, before …

06-08-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has now been behind bars for a year although there are times you would barely know it. Khan is still the dominant force of Pakistan’s opposition politics; his name still in the papers and the courts. His social …

06-08-2024 PARIS: French prosecutors have opened an investigation into death threats made against the organizers of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. On Saturday artistic director Thomas Jolly, ceremonies director Thierry Reboul and Alexandre Billard of events agency Ubi Bene, filed a complaint for death threats. Last month, French DJ Barbara …