11-04-2024 PHOENIX. ARIZONA STATE: Arizona’s top court revived a ban on nearly all abortions under a law from 1864, a half century before statehood and women’s suffrage, further restricting reproductive rights in a state where terminating a pregnancy was already barred at 15 weeks of gestation. The Arizona Supreme Court …

10-04-2024 WASHINGTON: The US has transferred to Ukraine thousands of infantry weapons and more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition that were seized more than a year ago as they were being shipped by Iran to Houthi forces in Yemen, the US military said on Tuesday. The hardware sent last week …

10-04-2024 BEIRUT: The killing of a local politician has deepened sectarian and political faultiness in Lebanon, raising fears of armed clashes between rival factions in a country already beset by a deep economic crisis, and cross-border shelling linked to the Gaza War. Government and religious officials have rushed to quell …

10-04-2024 ORSK, RUSSIA: Flood sirens blared out in two Russian cities on Tuesday, warning thousands more people to evacuate immediately as two major rivers swelled to bursting point in some of the worst flooding in at least 70 years. Swiftly melting snow across swathes of the Ural Mountains and Siberia …

10-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea against arrest in Delhi excise policy and said the material collected by Enforcement Directorate reveals that he conspired with others and was involved in his personal capacity as well as convener …

10-04-2024 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s military appears to have abandoned the strategically important border town of Myawaddy on the eastern border with Thailand, after a sustained assault by an alliance of anti-coup fighters. Thai PBS reported on Monday that more than 600 Myanmar nationals, including 67 military officers and 410 non-commissioned officers …

10-04-2024 MOSCOW/ BEIJING: Russia and China have agreed to discuss ways to deepen their security cooperation in Asia and Europe to counter attempts by the United States to impose its will on the region, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “For a long time, there was a Euro-Atlantic security structure …

10-04-2024 STRASBOURG/ PARIS: A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change. The …

10-04-2024 JERUSALEM/ CAIRO/ DOHA/ GAZA CITY: The Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza announced on Sunday was greeted with widespread surprise, even as the Israeli army and government have been at pains to stress that it has no great significance but to a world that has watched the intensity of Israel’s …

10-04-2024 BERLIN/ THE HAGUE: Germany has said Israel’s security is at the “core” of its foreign policy, as it defends a genocide case brought against it at the UN’s highest court. Nicaragua had accused it of breaching the UN genocide convention by sending military hardware to Israel and ceasing funding …