21-03-2024 WASHINGTON/ GAZA CITY: Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by media about conditions in the territory. Blinken called on Israel …

21-03-2024 PARIS: Twenty-eight people have been jailed for up to 18 months for the harassment of an influencer in France’s largest cyberbullying case to date. Judges found the accused guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, spurred on by a campaign by the French rapper Booba against “thieving influencers”. The court in …

20-03-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: The United States has issued its strongest public warning yet to Israel against invading the crowded city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, saying that such a ground operation would deepen the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on …

20-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court ordered the State Bank of India (SBI) (SBI.NS), opens new tab on Monday to submit all the details of so-called electoral bonds issued under an opaque political funding system, just a month before general elections. The further details of the …

20-03-2024 SANA’A/ WASHINGTON: A report by BBC details aspects of the daily lives of USS Dwight D Eisenhower crewmembers in their attempts to thwart the Yemeni resistance and force the re-opening of the Red Sea route, with some describing the mission as “the most since World War Two.” “This is …

20-03-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: Gunmen have assaulted two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital in an attack that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas and suggested that a gang insurrection that prompted the prime minister to resign is far from over. Assailants looted homes in the communities of Laboule …

20-03-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel’s army said Monday it had killed a Hamas official inside Gaza City’s al-Shifa medical complex, an operation that unfolded as experts warned that the northern part of the enclave may already be in the grip of famine. The White House, meanwhile, confirmed that Marwan Issa, the deputy …

20-03-2024 ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: An Afghan refugee was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed faces life in prison for killing 41-year-old Aftab Hussein on July 26, 2022. He also will stand trial …

20-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ MELBOURNE: Uber has agreed to pay AU$271.8m ($178.3m; £140m) to settle a lawsuit in Australia, according to a law firm for taxi operators and drivers. Maurice Blackburn Lawyers filed the class action on behalf of over 8,000 taxi and hire car owners and drivers. …

HYDERABAD’19 March 2024: Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari said that there is no shortage of drinking water during the current summer season as there is enough water in the reservoirs of the state. During a review meeting held here on Tuesday with the officials on the situation of drinking water supply …