11-03-2024 LONDON/ BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA: The biggest night in the entertainment calendar is finally upon us, the 96th Oscars. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which has 13 nominations, is expected to sweep up at the ceremony later. Many film fans will also be cheering on Barbie, last year’s biggest hit at the …

11-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURE: On February 20, India’s chief opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC), uploaded a video parodying Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Instagram that has amassed over 1.5 million views. It is a short clip from a new Hindi music album named “Chor” …

11-03-2024 WASHINGTON: Prosecutors in the United States have opened a criminal investigation into the mid-flight blowout involving a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Alaska Airlines, according to US media reports. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has interviewed witnesses including aircrew as part of the probe into the January 5 incident …

11-03-2024 KINSHASA/ DAKAR: A prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked a court in the capital Kinshasa to sentence journalist Stanis Bujakera to 20 years in prison, one of his lawyers said on Sunday. Bujakera, a Congolese national who works for international media outlets including Reuters, was detained …

11-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party suffered a setback on Friday as a tax tribunal dismissed its appeal to pause recovery of 1.35 billion rupees ($16.32 million) in income tax from its bank accounts, weeks before national elections. A part of the Congress’ bank …

11-03-2024 WASHINGTON: The 2024 presidential general election is here, for all intents and purposes. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are set to face off in the first presidential rematch since 1956. It’s also the first rematch between a current and a former president since 1892 but unlike in 2020 when …

11-03-2024 CAIRO/ SANA’A/ DAMASCUS: US, French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune and US destroyers in the region, the US military said in a statement. The Houthis have been attacking ships …

10-03-2024 CYPRUS: A US military ship is sailing towards the Middle East, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza, the army says. The support ship, General Frank S Besson, set sail from a military base in the state of Virginia on Saturday. It comes after …

10-03-2024 BOSTON: Microsoft said Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. The hackers from Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service …

10-03-2024 ANKARA: A Turkish court on Friday arrested six people, including five former police officers, on charges of spying for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Unauthorized firearms, drugs, digital materials, documents, surveillance equipment, radios and a sum of money in various currencies were seized during the operation in which police …