09-06-2024 UNITED NATIONS: Yemen’s Houthi group is detaining at least 11 United Nations personnel, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said, calling for the staff’s unconditional release. Dujarric said on Friday the UN was seeking clarification from the Houthis about why the Yemeni employees were detained. The two women and nine …

09-06-2024 WASHINGTON: The board of Howard University, a historically-black university in Washington DC, has moved to strip Sean “Diddy” Combs of his honorary degree The announcement comes after CNN published a CCTV video of the hip-hop producer hitting an ex-girlfriend in a hotel hallway. In a statement on Friday, the …

09-06-2024 COPENHAGEN: Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen is said to have been left shocked and suffering whiplash after being struck by a man while walking in the centre of Copenhagen. The assault took place in a square in the city’s old town when a man walked up to the politician and …

08-06-2024 CANBERRA: The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will allow recruits from foreign countries, including the UK, to help grow its ranks. Australia has been struggling with enlistment shortfalls, as it seeks to beef up its armed forces in the face of what it says are growing regional threats. From July, …

08-06-2024 ARIZONA: Extreme heat in Arizona sent dozens of people to hospital as thousands waited to enter a campaign rally with former President Donald Trump. As Trump took the stage just after 17:00 EDT at a mega-church in Phoenix, the temperature was 111F (44C). It was his first rally since …

08-06-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats both invited the prime minister …

08-06-2024 KHARTOUM: At least 150 people, including 35 children, are feared dead in a massacre in a village in central Sudan blamed on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group fighting the army. The rivals have been battling over control of the country for more than 13 months. The …

08-06-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The US has told Israel it must be fully “transparent” over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told media a warplane had fired two missiles at classrooms …

08-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HYDERABAD: Regional parties in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance demanded on Thursday more funds for their states and federal cabinet positions as negotiations began on forming a new coalition government, alliance leaders and sources said. Modi was named leader of the National …

08-06-2024 JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s African National Congress will invite other political parties to form a national unity government, its leader President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, after it lost its majority for the first time in the democratic era. The former liberation movement once led by Nelson Mandela has run …