16-09-2024 WEST PARK, FLORIDA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the FBI foiled what appeared to be an assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman in bushes near the property …

16-09-2024 SANA’A/ JERUSALEM: A long-range ballistic missile fired from Yemen has hit central Israel, sparking fire, according to the Israeli military. The missile triggered air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel, including the Ben Gurion international airport, sending residents running for shelter. There were no reports of …

16-09-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s deputy leader has warned Israel that a full-scale war on Lebanon would cause “large losses on both sides” and displace hundreds of thousands of more Israelis in the country’s north. Naim Qassem’s comments on Saturday came as Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

16-09-2024 NEW DELHI/ KILKATA: The former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and the station house officer (SHO) who initially investigated the rape and murder of a trainee doctor have been arrested by the CBI for allegedly misleading investigators and trying to hide evidence. With their actions, …

16-09-2024 TEL AVIV/ GAZA STRIP: Displaced Palestinians describe returning to what is now just rubble in eastern Gaza City, after Israeli forces withdrew from the area. Israeli forces killed at least 26 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including five at another school-turned-shelter for war-displaced civilians in Gaza City. …

16-09-2024 NEW YORK: SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world’s first commercial spacewalk. The Dragon capsule made splashdown off the coast of Florida shortly after 03:37 local time (07:37 GMT), in an event stream lived by SpaceX. …

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 …