18-09-2024 HARARE: Zimbabwe plans to cull 200 elephants to feed communities facing acute hunger after the worst drought in four decades, wildlife authorities said on Tuesday. The El Nino-induced drought wiped out crops in southern Africa, impacting 68 million people and causing food shortages across the region. “We can confirm …

18-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MANIOUR: The Indian government is in talks seeking to resolve a long-running conflict between two ethnic communities in the northeastern state of Manipur, Interior Minister Amit Shah said at a press conference on Tuesday. Internet and mobile data services were restored in Manipur …

18-09-2024 LONDON: Malnutrition is the world’s worst child health crisis and climate change will only make things more severe, according to Microsoft-co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates. Between now and 2050, 40 million more children will have stunted growth and 28 million more will suffer from wasting, the most extreme and …

18-09-2024 SEATTLE: Boeing is freezing hiring and weighing temporary furloughs to cut costs as a strike by more than 30,000 workers entered its fourth day on Monday. The planemaker and union leadership badly misjudged anger among union members who backed a strike with 96% support last week, stopping production of …

18-09-2024 JESENIK/ LITOVEL: Residents of several areas of Poland and the Czech Republic rushed to evacuate on Monday as others in central Europe began cleaning up after the worst flooding in over two decades left a trail of destruction and a rising number of deaths. Border areas between the Czech …

18-09-2024 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States is amassing an arsenal of abundant and easily made anti-ship weapons as part of American efforts to deter China in the Indo-Pacific region and gear up US forces there. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed US thinking toward a new philosophy “affordable mass,” as …

Atishi to be new Chief Minister of India’s capital Delhi 17-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Delhi minister Atishi will take over as the new chief minister of India’s national capital territory after the resignation of incumbent Arvind Kejriwal, says the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The announcement was …

Netanyahu expands war goals amid ongoing Gaza onslaught 17-09-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City, following a day of bombardment that killed at least 35 people across Gaza, the Palestinian Civil Defence says. Israeli PM Netanyahu has announced expanded war goals …

17-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal says he will resign as chief minister of the capital New Delhi’s regional government, a day after his release from prison on bail in a corruption case. “Today I have come to ask the public whether you consider …

17-09-2024 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces pounded Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, killing 10 Palestinians, including several children. The attacks followed a day of assaults that killed more than a dozen people across the enclave. The Israeli military, reversing months of denials, admitted there was a “high probability” that …