31-05-2024 NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his New York criminal hush money trial, making him the first former US president to be convicted in the country’s history. The jury held deliberations for two days. The Jury has set July 11 …

31-05-2024 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ BEIJING: Pakistan launched its latest modern communication satellite, the PAKSAT MM1, into space on Thursday, weeks after its ICUBE-Qamar (ICUBE-Q) entered lunar orbit. ICUBE-Q was launched into space on May 3 aboard China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission from Hainan, China. A major milestone in Pakistan’s space exploration …

31-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: Indian shares fell for a fifth straight session on Thursday, pressured by weakness in global peers, while some investors’ trimmed positions ahead of federal election results. The NSE Nifty 50 (.NSEI), opens new tab closed down about 1% at 22,488 points, while …

31-05-2024 VICTORIA: Hong Kong has found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law. They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of 2019 such as nurse Winnie …

31-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: Pressure is growing on US President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to use West-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory. A number of US allies this week signaled they were open to this possibility. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has warned of “serious consequences”, especially for what he called “small …

31-05-2024 CANBERRA: Australia’s Department of Home Affairs says it is working with Ticketmaster after hackers allegedly stole personal details of more than half a billion customers. The ShinyHunters hacking group is reportedly demanding a $500,000 (£400,000) ransom payment to prevent the information being sold to other parties. Australia said it …

31-05-2024 NEW YORK: Three black men have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that the carrier briefly removed them from a flight after a complaint about body odour. The men, who were not seated together and did not know each other, say that every black man was …

31-05-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel’s military has said it has taken control of the strategically important buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border known as the Philadelphi Corridor, meaning it now controls Gaza’s entire land border. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said about 20 tunnels used by Hamas …

31-05-2024 MADRID: Spain’s Congress has approved the government’s contentious Catalan amnesty law, which has now overcome its final parliamentary hurdle ahead of its implementation. The law seeks to withdraw pending legal action against Catalan nationalists for separatist activities, including a 2017 referendum and failed independence bid. The law received the …

30-05-2024 NEW YORK: Jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are expected to begin deliberations Wednesday after receiving instructions from the judge on the law and the factors they may consider as they strive to reach a verdict in the first criminal case against a former American president. “It is …