06-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY/ NEW DELHI: India foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday the vandalism of a Hindu temple in Canada on Monday was deeply concerning. “What happened yesterday at the Hindu temple in Canada was obviously deeply concerning,” he told reporters in the Australian capital Canberra …

06-11-2024 NEW HALFA: Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan’s eastern El Gezira state late last month. They accused her of loyalty to the army and its allies, their …

06-11-2024 UNITED NATIONS: Israel has formally ended a decades-old cooperation agreement with the United Nations Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA) that covered the protection, movement and diplomatic immunity of the agency in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel notified the UN in a letter on Sunday, as required …

06-11-2024 WASHINGTON: The presidential race has seen a whopping $2.6 billion spent on political advertising since early March, according to a report released on Monday by the ad tracking firm AdImpact. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign and groups backing her outspent Republican Donald Trump’s campaign and his allies, $1.6 billion …

06-11-2024 PENNSYLVANIA: The $1m-a-day voter sweepstakes that Elon Musk’s political action committee is hosting in swing states can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday. The common pleas court judge Angelo Foglietta ruling after Musk’s lawyers said the winners are not chosen by chance did not …

06-11-2024 LONDON: Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal. Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than three years in a makeshift camp on the island, which hosts a …

06-11-2024 PARIS: Eight people have gone on trial in Paris accused of encouraging the killer of Samuel Paty, the teacher who was beheaded on the street outside his school four years ago. Abdoullakh Anzorov, the young man of Chechen origin who wielded the knife, is dead shot by police in …

06-11-2024 TEHRAN: Human rights activists have called on authorities in Iran to release a woman who was detained after removing her clothes at a university, in what they said was a protest against the compulsory hijab laws. A video surfaced on social media on Saturday showing the woman in her …

05-11-2024 STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a Swedish Danish right-wing activist to four months in jail for inciting ethnic hatred at two 2022 protests that included the burning of the Quran. Rasmus Paludan provoked rioting in Sweden in 2022 when he went on a tour of the country …

05-11-2024 JERUSALEM: Attempts to secure a peace deal in Gaza and secure the release of hostages held by Hamas may have been compromised by leaked and falsified documents involving a close aide to the prime minister, an Israeli court has said. In its partial lifting of a gagging order, the …