01-08-2024 BERLIN: The authoritarian leader of Belarus has pardoned a German citizen who had been sentenced to death. Rico Kroeger was arrested in October and had been accused of acting as a mercenary and of planting explosives but news of his death sentence only became widely known last week. Today’s …

01-08-2024 GAZA CITY: Injured and critically ill Palestinians are on their way from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates for treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, in the largest single medical evacuation since the war began following the brutal Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October. Later on …

01-08-2024 LONDON/ NEW YORK:  The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been”, according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudhry. The Islamist preacher from east London is starting a life sentence for …

31-07-2024 TEHRAN: Hamas says its political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in an Israeli attack in the Iranian capital. According to Iranian media, an air strike hit a building for war veterans in Tehran where Haniyeh was staying at around 02:00 (22:30 GMT). Haniyeh, 62, was widely considered Hamas’s …

31-07-2024 KHARTOUM/ CAIRO: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have committed widespread acts of sexual violence in the capital Khartoum, including gang rape and forced marriages, in its war with the armed forces, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. An HRW report said some attacks had also been attributed to the …

31-07-2024 NEW DELHI: Relatives of an Indian man who died in Russia have said he was killed after being forced to fight in the war against Ukraine, and are petitioning the government to bring his body back to his village in the northern Haryana state. Several men and their families …

31-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Joe Biden has criticized the “extreme opinions” of the Supreme Court as he proposed sweeping reforms including the removal of life appointments. The proposals come after the current conservative-dominated court issued a series of major decisions, including upending the constitutional right to abortion and allowing presidents wide-ranging immunity …

31-07-2024 BANGUI: A group of scientists say they have found new evidence to back up their theory that complex life on Earth may have begun 1.5 billion years earlier than thought. The team, working in Gabon, say they discovered evidence deep within rocks showing environmental conditions for animal life 2.1 …

31-07-2024 DHAKA: An image is worth a thousand words, sometimes, it can even stir a nation. In Bangladesh, it was the image of university student Abu Sayeed standing with open arms, stick in hand, facing heavily-armed police alone which many credit as the turning point in the recent widespread protest …

31-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of its investigation into the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. In a call with reporters on Monday, the FBI did not give a date for the interview, …