09-11-2024 PARIS: France accused Israel on Thursday of harming bilateral ties after Israeli security forces entered a holy site under French administration in Jerusalem and briefly detained two French officials with diplomatic status. The incident occurred as French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot was due to visit the compound of The …

09-11-2024 BUDAPEST: European leaders gathered on Thursday in the shadow of Donald Trump’s election victory and said they agreed on the need to take more responsibility for their security and rely less on the United States. Trump’s reelection is a major challenge for Europe, opening an era of huge uncertainty …

09-11-2024 BEIJING/ SEOUL: China’s new J-35A stealth fighter jet will be displayed for the first time next week at the country’s biggest civil and military air show, a biennial event where Beijing showcases its expanding aerospace industry. The six-day China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition begins on Tuesday in the …

09-11-2024 WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump has announced his campaign manager, Susan Summerall Wiles, will serve as his White House Chief of Staff when he takes over the presidency next year. In a statement, Trump said that Wiles “just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American …

09-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Last month brought good news for the great Indian bustard, a critically endangered bird found mainly in India. Wildlife officials in the western state of Rajasthan have performed the first successful hatching of a chick through artificial insemination. A lone adult male in …

09-11-2024 SEOUL: South Korea’s president has apologized for a string of controversies surrounding his wife that included allegedly accepting a luxury Dior handbag and stock manipulation. Addressing the nation on television, Yoon Suk Yeol said his wife, Kim Keon Hee, should have conducted herself better, but her portrayal had been …

08-11-2024 JERUSALEM: The Israeli parliament has passed a law allowing the government to deport the family members of people convicted of terrorism offences, including Israeli citizens. The controversial legislation, proposed by a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, applies to first-degree relatives, meaning the parents, siblings or children …

08-11-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has said that it targeted an Israeli military base south of Tel Aviv with a swarm of drones “for the first time”, as Israel launched renewed air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut city. Hezbollah fighters launched a “squadron of attack drones …

08-11-2024 GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA: A United States military judge has ruled that plea agreements reached with the alleged plotters of the September 11, 2001, attacks are valid, reversing an order by the country’s defence minister. The order by the judge, Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall, means the three accused men …

08-11-2024 BEIRUT: First responders have recovered the bodies of 30 people killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment building south of Beirut, Lebanon’s Civil Defence agency says. Tuesday evening’s attack destroyed one side of the four-storey building that was reportedly housing displaced people in the predominantly Sunni Muslim …