10-11-2024 VALENCIA/ MADRID: Huge numbers of people have protested in Valencia against authorities’ handling of recent deadly floods, demanding the resignation of regional head Carlos Mazon. Spanish outlets, including news agency Efe, cited a government body as saying 130,000 people took to the streets on Saturday – with protesters chanting …

10-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: When Khalil Sayegh thinks back to his childhood in the Gaza Strip, the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius looms large in his memory. Sayegh, now 29, remembers the weddings, the Sunday school classes, the music lessons and the visits to the tiny graveyard. These days, Sayegh …

10-11-2024 ABUJA: Nigeria’s human rights commission said on Friday an investigation had found “no evidence” that the Nigerian military deliberately attacked women and children or carried out secret abortions in its fight against an Islamist insurgency in the northeast. The Nigeria Human Rights Commission, which is appointed by the government, …

10-11-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly backed his government’s contentious 2019 decision to revoke the partial autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir, days after the territory’s newly elected lawmakers sought its restoration. “Only the constitution of Babasaheb Ambedkar will operate in Kashmir… No power in the …

10-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: For over two millennia, the Roman temples at Baalbek in eastern Lebanon have stood as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture anywhere in the world. On Wednesday, a car park just metres away from the UNESCO World Heritage site was hit by an Israeli air …

10-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Authorities are investigating racist text messages sent to black Americans across the country telling them to report to a plantation “to pick cotton”. Black Americans, including school and college students, were among the recipients in states including Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania. “The FBI is …

10-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: The UN’s Human Rights Office has condemned the high number of civilians killed in the war in Gaza, saying its analysis shows close to 70% of verified victims over a six-month period were women and children. The agency said the high number was largely due …

10-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said Democrats might have fared better in Tuesday’s election if President Joe Biden had exited the race sooner. Pelosi, one of the most powerful politicians in Washington told the New York Times that “had the president gotten out sooner, …

09-11-2024 By SJA Jafri QUETTA/ KARACHI: At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police and other officials told media. Pakistan is grappling with a surge in strikes by separatist ethnic militants …

09-11-2024 WASHINGTON: The US government has brought charges against an Afghan national in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump before he was elected as the next president. The Department of Justice on Friday unsealed an indictment against Farhad Shakeri, 51, alleging he was tasked with “providing …