16-09-2024 CARACAS: Venezuelan authorities say they have arrested three US citizens, two Spaniards and one Czech citizen suspected of plotting to destabilize the country. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said hundreds of weapons had also been seized, and that the detainees were plotting to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other …

16-09-2024 PARIS/ AVIGNON: When she walks into the courthouse in the French city of Avignon, flanked by her children and a team of lawyers, Gisele Pelicot cuts an unassuming figure. The 72-year-old mother and grandmother, her hair styled into a neat bob, wears colorful dresses and Breton tops. She looks …

16-09-2024 VIENNA: Romania has set up displacement camps and launched rescue operations after floods killed at least four people and destroyed thousands of homes in the east of the country. Military boats and planes are being used to move people to safety, and Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has said the …

15-09-2024 MADRID: Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war, called for a clear schedule for the international community to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We meet to make another push for the end of …

15-09-2024 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia started producing a new long-range attack drone called the Garpiya-A1 last year using Chinese engines and parts, which it has deployed in the war in Ukraine, according to two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents seen by Reuters. The intelligence which included a production …

15-09-2024 KINSHASA: A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death 37 people, including three United States citizens, on charges of taking part in a failed coup in May. “The court pronounces the harshest sentence: the death penalty for criminal association, the death penalty …

15-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s highest court has granted bail to opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a corruption case, paving the way for his release almost six months after he was arrested. Kejriwal, a key leader in an alliance against Prime Minister Narendra …

15-09-2024 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has denounced election-season attacks on the Haitian American community in the United States, calling out Republican leaders for fear-mongering. Speaking on Friday at a White House brunch billed as a “celebration of Black excellence”, Biden warned that Haitian Americans were a “community that’s under attack …

15-09-2024 VIENNA: Sandbags are being prepared in Austria, reservoirs have been emptied in the Czech Republic and flash floods are expected in Poland, as forecasters warn of days of “potentially catastrophic” rainfall. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said there is “no reason to panic”, after attending a flood risk …

15-09-2024 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has called both major US presidential candidates “against life” and advised Catholic voters to choose the “lesser evil” when casting their ballots in the November election. The pontiff said not welcoming migrants seemingly referring to Trump is a “grave” sin, and compared Kamala Harris’s stance …