26-06-2024 BEIJING: China’s lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon’s unexplored far side. The Chang’e-6 landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long mission which was fraught with risks. Scientists are eagerly awaiting the Chang’e-6 as the samples …

26-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indians bought a record 500,000 metric tons of sunflower oil for June delivery, as competition between leading suppliers Russia and Ukraine made it cheaper than soyoil and palm oil, two leading buyers and a customs official told media. Higher sunflower oil purchases by …

26-06-2024 WICHITA, KANSAS: Two federal judges in Kansas and Missouri on Monday at the urging of several Republican-led states blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from further implementing a new student debt relief plan that lowers payments. US District Judge Daniel Crabtree in Wichita, Kansas, blocked, opens new tab the US …

26-06-2024 MOSCOW: Russia has blamed the US and vowed “consequences” for a Ukrainian missile strike on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea on Sunday, which officials say killed four people including two children. Around 150 more were injured in the attack as missile debris fell on a beach nearby. Russia’s defence ministry …

26-06-2024 NEW YORK/ KHARTOUM: The head of the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, says Sudan is one of the worst places in the world for children. Catherine Russell says it now has the largest displacement of children anywhere, with millions facing malnutrition and most not in school She is travelling …

26-06-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister has said the “intense phase” of fighting Hamas in Gaza is nearly over, allowing forces to move to the northern border with Lebanon to confront its ally Hezbollah. In his first Israeli media interview since the start of the war in October, Benjamin Netanyahu said …

26-06-2024 MINNESOTA: Flooding in the Midwest has caused severe damage, collapsing a bridge, weakening a dam and forcing the evacuation of a town. Nearly 3 million people in Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska have been affected. In the border area of Iowa and South Dakota, devastation from the record …

25-06-2024 NAIROBI: There was chaos outside the Parliament of Kenya on Tuesday as police opened fire with live ammunition and tear gas at young protesters amid demonstrations against proposed tax hikes. Protesters overwhelmed police and managed to break into part of the parliament building in Nairobi and start a fire. …

25-06-2024 LONDON: After a years-long legal saga, Wikileaks says that founder Julian Assange has left the UK after reaching a deal with US authorities that will see him plead guilty to criminal charges and go free. Assange, 52, was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information. For …

25-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A Delhi city minister has started an indefinite hunger strike to demand more drinking water for India’s capital, where taps in some of its poorest neighborhoods are running nearly dry in the middle of searing heat. “There are 2.8 million people in the …