16-01-2024 SANA’A/ JERUSALEM: A US-owned ship has been hit “in response to strikes by the US and UK on Houthis in Yemen”, a maritime security firm says. The master of the vessel reported being hit by a missile near Yemen’s port city of Aden. The Iran-backed Houthis have been attacking …

16-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies MALE/ NEW DELHI: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has issued a deadline for India to withdraw its military personnel from the island nation, emphasizing that Indian troops must leave by March 15. This announcement comes in the wake of Muizzu’s recent state visit to China, marking …

16-01-2024 GAZA CITY: Israeli attacks continue unabated overnight martyring and wounding dozens of civilians in northern, central and southern Gaza. US aircraft shoot down a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis at an American destroyer in the Red Sea. Numerous overnight raids on the occupied West Bank with two Palestinian …

16-01-2024 NAIROBI, KENYA: The world’s top five richest people have more than doubled their wealth since 2020, while five billion people around the globe have become poorer, media reported citing a report by Oxfam. According to the annual inequality report by Oxfam, published just before the start of the annual …

15-01-2024 OTTAWA/ TORONTO: The Canadian government is aiming to reduce the intake of international students in the country in the near future. “It’s really a system that has gotten out of control,” Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller said, as he indicated capping the volume of international students …

15-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India does not plan to import wheat and its farmers are likely to harvest a bumper crop that will boost stockpiles in the world’s second-biggest producer of the staple, the trade minister said on Saturday. “Ground reports indicate that the crop is quite …

15-01-2024 MOGADISHU/ ADDIS ABABA: A senior adviser to Somalia’s president has said his country is prepared for a war with Ethiopia to prevent recognition of Somaliland’s statehood and the building of a naval base in the breakaway territory, The Guardian reported on Saturday. On Jan. 1, Ethiopia signed a memorandum …

15-01-2024 LONDON: The British government yesterday published a summary of its legal advice, which said its decision to strike Houthi military targets in Yemen was justified under international law. “The UK is permitted under international law to use force in such circumstances where acting in self-defence is the only feasible …

15-01-2024 SANA’A/ DUBAI: Tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered in several cities on Friday to hear their leaders condemn US and British strikes on their country in response to attacks by Houthi militants on Red Sea shipping. The US and Britain carried out dozens of air strikes on Houthi military …

15-01-2024 ISTANBUL: Turkey carried out air strikes in northern Syria and Iraq, hitting 25 Kurdish militant targets, the Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The operations were conducted in northern Syria and Metina, Hakurk and Qandil regions of northern Iraq at 9 p.m. (1800 GMT), the ministry …