20-05-2024 RIYADH: Oleksandr Usyk beat Tyson Fury by scoring a razor-thin split decision to win the world’s first undisputed heavyweight championship in 25 years, an unprecedented feat in boxing’s four-belt era. The United Kingdom’s Fury was the early aggressor but Usyk gradually took charge and the “Gypsy King” was saved …

20-05-2024 KABUL/ MADRID: Three Afghan nationals and three Spanish tourists were killed in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, the Taliban government has said, as it raised the death toll from the attack in a market. On Saturday, the government said that the bodies of the three Afghans and three Spanish tourists …

20-05-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY/ CAIRO: Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, medics and residents said. Israel’s forces also took over some ground in …

20-05-2024 TUNIS: At least 23 people are missing off the Tunisian coast, local authorities have said, as search and rescue operations are under way. Tunisia’s National Guard said in a statement on Saturday that it had been notified of “unauthorized sailing operations” from several areas along the Tunisian coast. Five …

20-05-2024 TEHRAN: Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi says she is facing a new trial after she accused the security forces of sexually assaulting women. In a message from Evin prison where she is being held, Ms Mohammadi said the trial relates to an audio post, in which …

19-05-2024 GAZA CITY: Hamas says Palestinians will continue to confront the ground invasion of Rafah and other places in Gaza “no matter how long the aggression lasts and regardless of its form”. More than 630,000 people have now fled Israel’s advance on southern Rafah with another 100,000 escaping from the …

19-05-2024 KUALA LUMPUR: Two police officers have been killed and one injured in Malaysia after a man suspected to be part of the hardline Jemaah Islamiyah group stormed a police station. The attack took place in the early hours of Friday morning in the town of Ulu Tiram in the …

19-05-2024 BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces arrested two senior members of the Islamic State (IS) group in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Iraqi security forces said on Friday. The Kurdistan Region Security Council announced in a statement the arrest of Socrates Khalil, who was the right …

19-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India’s Congress party, made an emotional appeal to voters in the family borough, asking them to vote for her son in a region that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party have dominated in the last ten years. …

19-05-2024 NEW YORK: Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab plans to release the coming installment of the “Call of Duty” videogame to its subscription service, in a departure from its longtime practice of only selling the title independently, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. The move is expected …