19-11-2024 SYDNEY: Veteran Australian broadcaster and former Wallabies coach Alan Jones has been arrested after an investigation into a series of sexual abuse allegations. New South Wales Police said detectives from the Child Abuse Squad took an 83-year-old man into custody at an apartment in Sydney’s Circular Quay early on …

19-11-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s media chief Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut, the Lebanese militant group has confirmed. A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighborhood on Sunday, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. The …

19-11-2024 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long-range missiles supplied by the US to strike Russia. A US official has confirmed the move, a major change of US policy, to media. For months, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has been urging that the …

18-11-2024 RIO DE JANEIRO: Diplomatic tensions over global warming spilled over into the G20 summit negotiations in Brazil this week, with sources saying the 20 major economies reached a fragile consensus on climate finance that had eluded UN talks in Azerbaijan. Heads of state arrived in Rio de Janeiro on …

18-11-2024 NEW YORK: Donald Trump received a warm welcome as he celebrated his election victory at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in New York alongside Elon Musk and some of his cabinet picks. Trump entered the arena to loud music and cheers from the UFC 309 crowd at Maddison Square …

18-11-2024 BEIJING: As the world waits to see how the return of Donald Trump will reshape relations between Washington and Beijing, China has just taken decisive action to entrench its position in Latin America. Trump won the US presidential election on a platform that promised tariffs as high as 60% …

18-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ LONDON: A senior economic adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump has said Britain should align itself with the United States on trade rather than pursue closer ties with the European Union. Speaking to media, Stephen Moore said the EU had a “socialist model” and suggested the US would …

18-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: Authorities in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur suspended internet and mobile services and imposed an indefinite curfew on Saturday in areas where protesters were besieging politicians’ homes over deadly inter-ethnic violence. In the latest deaths, security forces found three bodies believed …

18-11-2024 AMSTERDAM: Western media outlets have come under fire from pro-Palestinian activists and journalists over their coverage of clashes in Amsterdam last week between locals and travelling Israeli football fans, with accusations of deliberate disinformation and inaccurate framing. Dozens of people have been arrested after supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv …

18-11-2024 GAZA CITY: Israel’s military continues to pound Gaza, killing at least 51 more Palestinians on Saturday as Israeli settlers stormed the occupied West Bank village of Beit Furik and set fire to homes and vehicles. Two more Lebanese paramedics were killed in an Israeli drone attack on southern Nabatieh …