24-09-2024 NEW YORK: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged top tech companies in the US to explore India as a destination for manufacturing and innovation. He met CEOs of tech companies in New York a day after attending the annual meeting of Quad countries, which also includes the US, …

24-09-2024 BEIRUT: Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 100 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Israeli strikes on Monday. Israel says strikes against Hezbollah are “deepening” as citizens in southern Lebanon have received phone messages warning them to leave places used by the Iran-backed group. A Lebanese …

24-09-2024 COLOMBO: Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist anti-poverty policies and pledge to fight corruption handed him victory on Sunday in Sri Lanka’s presidential election. Although his Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna (JVP) party has just three seats in parliament, the 55-year-old …

24-09-2024 SINGAPORE CITY: Singapore, a nation consistently ranked as among the least corrupt in the world, is gearing up for that rarest of things: a high-profile corruption trial. S Iswaran, a former transport minister best known for his role in helping to bring the Formula One (F1) night race to …

24-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a “Pact for the Future”, which UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as a landmark agreement that is a “step-change towards more effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism”. The pact, which also includes an annex on working towards a responsible and sustainable digital …

23-09-2024 BEIRUT/ HAIFA: Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, with Israeli warplanes carrying out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of conflict across Lebanon’s south and Hezbollah firing rockets deep into northern Israel. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said strikes would continue until it was safe …

23-09-2024 MEXICO CITY: At least 10 more people have reportedly been killed in Mexico’s northwestern state of Sinaloa, bringing the number of people killed or missing to more than 100, as rival cartel factions’ clash, with gruesome violence showing no signs of abating soon. The latest violence, reported by officials …

23-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Iran did not include mobile launchers with the close-range ballistic missiles that Washington last week accused Tehran of delivering to Russia for use against Ukraine, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. The sources, a European diplomat, a European intelligence official and a US official said …

23-09-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Rescue workers in Beirut searched on Saturday for people still missing in rubble a day after an Israeli airstrike, targeting Hezbollah commanders, killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, according to authorities. Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed group, said 16 members including senior …

23-09-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE/ NAIROBI: Kenyan President William Ruto has landed in the Haitian capital to assess a Kenya-led security mission in the Caribbean nation, a day after a United Nations expert warned that Haiti faced deepening violence and insecurity. In a statement on Saturday, a spokesperson for Ruto said the Kenyan …