23-12-2024 GENEVA/ KHARTOUM: More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the UN human rights chief said on Friday, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to halt a siege of the city. The siege and “the relentless fighting are devastating lives every …

23-12-2024 MAGDEBURG: Authorities investigated a Saudi doctor with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg that killed five people and injured scores. The Friday evening attack on crowds gathered to celebrate the Christmas season …

23-12-2024 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: Advisors to the Republican president-elect’s transition team are advocating a much more aggressive posture towards Beijing over fentanyl than the one adopted by Democratic incumbent Joe Biden. Already, Trump is signaling that to stem the flow of narcotics he will resort to his weapon of choice: tariffs. …

22-12-2024 TEL AVIV: A Houthi missile strike has injured more than a dozen people in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli military said attempts to shoot down a projectile launched from Yemen had been unsuccessful and it landed in a public park early on Saturday. A Houthi military spokesman said the …

22-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian government panel has rejected an airline industry proposal for aviation fuel to be brought under the unified Goods and Services Tax (GST), the finance minister said after a meeting of the panel on Saturday. Currently, state governments choose how to tax aviation turbine …

22-12-2024 CAIRO/ DOHA: Talks to reach a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas are 90% complete, but key issues remain that need to be bridged, a senior Palestinian official involved in the talks told media. One of the main sticking points is the continued Israeli military …

22-12-2024 DAMASCUS: Jamil Hassan, one of the most feared men in Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime, wanted for the torture and killing of civilians, was shaking as he walked down the stairs of his apartment block. Outside, the 72-year-old climbed into a car in a small convoy with his family and …

22-12-2024 PARIS: A Paris court on Friday convicted eight people for their roles in the events that led to the killing of Samuel Paty, a history teacher who’s stabbing and decapitation by an Islamist terrorist in 2020 deeply shocked France. Paty was slain in October 2020 near his school northwest …

22-12-2024 WASHINGTON: The US Senate has voted to pass a budget deal to avert what would be the first federal government shutdown since 2019, only hours after the lower House of Representatives approved the same legislation. The budget deal was passed shortly after a midnight deadline with an overwhelming of …

22-12-2024 BERLIN: Five people have been killed, including a child, and more than 200 injured after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, officials say. Many people were critically injured, Reiner Haseloff, the premier of Saxony-Anhalt state, told reporters on …