10-03-2024 CYPRUS: A US military ship is sailing towards the Middle East, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza, the army says. The support ship, General Frank S Besson, set sail from a military base in the state of Virginia on Saturday. It comes after …

10-03-2024 BOSTON: Microsoft said Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. The hackers from Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service …

10-03-2024 ANKARA: A Turkish court on Friday arrested six people, including five former police officers, on charges of spying for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Unauthorized firearms, drugs, digital materials, documents, surveillance equipment, radios and a sum of money in various currencies were seized during the operation in which police …

10-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: India began deporting the first group of Myanmar refugees who sought shelter there after a military coup in 2021 and plans to send back more in the coming days, weeks after saying it would end a visa-free border policy with Myanmar. Thousands …

10-03-2024 PYONGYANG: Tightened border controls introduced to curb COVID-19 are still strangling North Korea’s economic activity and informal trade networks more than 18 months after leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over the pandemic, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. North Korea was one of the first countries to act …

10-03-2024 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran has condemned a report by United Nations experts who concluded the Islamic republic’s violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations, with many amounting to crimes against humanity. The report was built on “baseless …

10-03-2024 STOCKHOLM/ OTTAWA/ GAZA CITY: Sweden and Canada have said they will resume aid payments to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. They were among 16 countries that paused funds after Israel accused at least 12 UNRWA staff of involvement in the 7 October attack by Hamas. The UN …

10-03-2024 GRIFFITH: Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and tens of millions more must be pulled up to rein in overproduction that has crushed grape prices and threatens the livelihoods of growers and wine makers. Falling consumption of wine worldwide has hit Australia particularly hard as demand shrinks …

Hyderabad, March 9 (PMI): Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy inaugurated a second-level flyover at Bairamalguda in Hyderabad on  Saturday.             Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said that his heartbeat would increase whenever he came to LB Nagar as his strong supporters were staying in the area and said that the …

Hyderabad; March 09 ( PMI ): The Jagtial police busted a fake certificate gang and arrested four persons, from whom 395 fake certificates and other materials were seized. Superintendent of Police Sunpreet Singh said Bathinoju Rajitha and her husband Sravan, residents of Ramnagar, Karimnagar town, were private employees. In 2020, Rajitha came …