05-12-2024 KABUL: Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have told media they were ordered not to return to classes in the morning effectively closing off their last route to further education in the country. Five separate institutions across Afghanistan have also confirmed to media that the Taliban had …

05-12-2024 PARIS: The French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has said it is “possible” he could survive a no-confidence vote in his minority government. Opposition parties have tabled the motion to oust the former Brexit negotiator after he used special powers to force through his budget without a vote. In the …

05-12-2024 MUNICH: In a courtroom in Munich, Nora sat across from the person who had bought her as a slave, abused her and murdered her five-year old daughter. Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in 2015, the year after IS …

05-12-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: The latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah is testing the limits of last week’s already fragile ceasefire deal. Hours after Hezbollah fired two mortar shells at an Israeli military outpost on Monday, Israel carried out its largest series of air strikes since the truce came …

Hyderabad’Dec 4 (PMI) 44 transgender persons were recruited as traffic assistants in the Hyderabad police department on Wednesday, December 4, following an order issued by Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy. This includes 29 female transgenders and 15 male transgenders The commissioner of Hyderabad police, CV Anand IPS addressed the …

04-12-2024 SEOUL: South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will lift the martial law order that he had announced in a surprise move. Less than two hours after his martial law declaration, MPs had defied the president, gathering at the National Assembly and voting to block his move. Some …

04-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Indian police will seek details from Elon Musk’s Starlink, they said on Tuesday, in a bid to hunt down drug smugglers who used its satellite internet device to navigate deep seas and bring meth worth $4.25 billion into Indian waters for the first time. …

04-12-2024 HELSINKI/ STOCKHOLM: Authorities in Finland are investigating a broken fiber-optic cable after two separate cuts caused an outage affecting thousands of households. The Swedish government said it suspected an act of “sabotage” on the cable, which links the two countries, but Finnish police said they did not yet have …

04-12-2024 WASHINGTON: Critics of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI have expressed doubts that he is qualified to lead the US government’s principal law enforcement agency. Some also raised fears that Kash Patel, a marginal figure in Trump’s first administration known for his loyalty, aims to dismantle an …

04-12-2024 GAZA STRIP: The beaches of Gaza are no longer for day trips. Tens of thousands of people now have to live on the coastline, forced to leave their homes during the war. In recent days they have come under a new kind of assault: from winter seas battering their …