06-11-2024 PENNSYLVANIA: The $1m-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk’s political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday. The common pleas court judge Angelo Foglietta ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance did not …

06-11-2024 LONDON: Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal. Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than three years in a makeshift camp on the island, which hosts a …

06-11-2024 PARIS: Eight people have gone on trial in Paris accused of encouraging the killer of Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded on the street outside his school four years ago. Abdoullakh Anzorov, the young man of Chechen origin who wielded the knife, is dead shot by police in …

06-11-2024 TEHRAN: Human rights activists have called on authorities in Iran to release a woman who was detained after removing her clothes at a university, in what they said was a protest against the compulsory hijab laws. A video surfaced on social media on Saturday showing the woman in her …

05-11-2024 STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a Swedish Danish right-wing activist to four months in jail for inciting ethnic hatred at two 2022 protests that included the burning of the Quran. Rasmus Paludan provoked rioting in Sweden in 2022 when he went on a tour of the country …

05-11-2024 JERUSALEM: Attempts to secure a peace deal in Gaza and secure the release of hostages held by Hamas may have been compromised by leaked and falsified documents involving a close aide to the prime minister, an Israeli court has said. In its partial lifting of a gagging order, the …

05-11-2024 NEW DELHI: Authorities in India’s capital and surrounding areas handed out fines to the owners of thousands of vehicles and construction sites for infringing pollution rules, in a bid to counter a slump in air quality during the last three weeks. New Delhi is the world’s most polluted major …

05-11-2024 JAKARTA: Dozens of people have been killed and missed after a volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, officials have said. Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted at 23:57 local time, according to the Indonesian Center for Volcanology …

05-11-2024 BEIJING: which has been releasing a slew of measures to bolster its sagging population levels, recorded a drop in marriage registrations for the first nine months of 2024, according to official data from Ministry of Civil Affairs. For the first three quarters of the year, 4.747 million couples were …

05-11-2024 NEW DELHI: Gold demand in India jumped this week amid festival purchases, although volumes were lower than usual due to record-high prices. “Retail buying jumped as consumers want to make purchases during the auspicious period but many were making token-buys because of higher prices,” said a Hyderabad-based jeweler. In …