26-09-2024 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament to clear the way for a snap general election in the debt-ridden country, he said in a government gazette notification on Tuesday. The parliamentary election will be held on Nov. 14, the notification said, adding that the …

26-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Foreign diplomats from 15 countries were allowed to observe local elections in India’s Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as New Delhi highlighted the first vote in the disputed Himalayan territory in a decade. It was the first time India has invited foreign …

26-09-2024 TEHRAN: Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei insists that Lebanon’s Hezbollah still stands strong despite losing some of its top commanders to Israeli strikes. Speaking at a meeting with military personnel on Wednesday, as Israel’s bombardment targeting the Shia armed group continued for the third …

26-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has been briefed by US intelligence on threats from Iran to assassinate him, his campaign said. The Republican presidential candidate was briefed “regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States”, the campaign …

26-09-2024 BEIJING: China has said it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean. The ICMB was launched at 08:44 local time (04:44 GMT) on Wednesday and “fell into expected sea areas”, Beijing’s defence ministry said, adding that the test launch was “routine” …

26-09-2024 LA PAZ: Anti-government protesters have clashed with supporters of President Luis Arce in Bolivia’s capital, La Paz, as fears grow of further unrest in the Andean nation mired in an economic crisis ahead of next year’s presidential election. Riot police and supporters of Arce gathered to defend the government …

26-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the United Nations for inaction on Gaza and accused Israel of turning the Palestinian territory into the “world’s largest children’s and women’s cemetery”. Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he said, “In Gaza, …

26-09-2024 BEIRUT/ GAZA STRIP/ NEW YORK: Tens of thousands of people flee southern Lebanon with little idea where to find safety as intense Israeli bombardment across Lebanon kills at least 569 people, including 50 children, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Hezbollah confirmed that senior leader Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi was killed …

25-09-2024 MOSCOW: The Russian parliament is working on a law that would ban what the authorities cast as the harmful promotion of a child-free way of life with heavy fines for “childlessness propaganda”, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State …

25-09-2024 DHAKA: Bangladesh’s army chief vowed to back the country’s interim government “come what may” to help it complete key reforms after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, so that elections could be held within the next 18 months. General Waker-uz-Zaman and his troops stood aside in early August …