06-05-2024 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Police have arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia (UVA) as campuses across the United States brace for more turmoil during graduation ceremonies. Tensions flared at UVA’s campus in Charlottesville, where protests had been largely peaceful until Saturday morning, …

06-05-2024 ABUJA: As many as 42 people have died from a measles outbreak in a little more than a week in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, the state’s health commissioner says. Felix Tangwami said on Friday that the measles outbreak had mostly affected two local government areas where nearly 200 …

06-05-2024 LONDON: Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has suffered a resounding defeat in local elections, a further sign that it is likely to be removed from power in upcoming general elections. With nearly all council results in, the Conservatives have lost 473 seats, while the opposition Labour Party has picked up …

06-05-2024 NEW YORK: My student journalist colleagues and I had stayed late into the night on Columbia University’s campus the previous couple of days, reporting on a story that had grabbed the world’s attention: the pro-Palestine protests and encampment that had inspired similar campaigns in schools across the United States …

06-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies PERTH/ SYDNEY: Western Australia police shot dead a “radicalized” 16-year-old boy on Saturday night after he stabbed a man in Perth. State Premier Roger Cook said the teenager attacked a man and then “rushed” at police officers, armed with a kitchen knife. The police responded …

06-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Just weeks before the first ballot was cast in this year’s Indian election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at an event in Delhi rubbing shoulders with people known by names like BeerBiceps and Curly Tales. The event, an awards show, congratulating some of …

06-05-2024 JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied late into the night calling for a deal to bring hostages home, ahead of further ceasefire talks. Protesters in Tel Aviv chanted “war is not holy, life is”, with some accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of aiming to prolong the conflict. It …

05-05-2024 Bureau Report PESHAWAR/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has experienced its “wettest April since 1961”, receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country’s weather agency has said. April rainfall was recorded at 59.3mm (2.3 inches), “excessively above” the normal average of 22.5mm (0.9 inches), the metrology …

05-05-2024 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: A growing global student movement to occupy university campuses has continued to coalesce and expand in recent days, following dramatic scenes involving pro-Palestinian protesters and police captured on cameras at American colleges. Student groups in the United Kingdom, France and Mexico among others have sought …

05-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Police in India have arrested the social media head of one of the country’s main opposition parties over a doctored video of the interior minister. The Congress Party’s Arun Revanth Reddy was detained on Friday, accused of being behind a widely-shared video showing …