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 …

05-11-2024 NEW DELHI: Authorities in India’s capital and surrounding areas handed out fines to the owners of thousands of vehicles and construction sites for infringing pollution rules, in a bid to counter a slump in air quality during the last three weeks. New Delhi is the world’s most polluted major …

05-11-2024 JAKARTA: Dozens of people have been killed and missed after a volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, officials have said. Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, located on Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted at 23:57 local time, according to the Indonesian Center for Volcanology …

05-11-2024 BEIJING: which has been releasing a slew of measures to bolster its sagging population levels, recorded a drop in marriage registrations for the first nine months of 2024, according to official data from Ministry of Civil Affairs. For the first three quarters of the year, 4.747 million couples were …

05-11-2024 NEW DELHI: Gold demand in India jumped this week amid festival purchases, although volumes were lower than usual due to record-high prices. “Retail buying jumped as consumers want to make purchases during the auspicious period but many were making token-buys because of higher prices,” said a Hyderabad-based jeweler. In …

05-11-2024 PAIPORTA: A crowd of enraged survivors hurled clots of mud left by storm-spawned flooding at the Spanish royal couple on Sunday during their first visit to the epicenter of their nation’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory. Spain’s national broadcaster reported that the barrage included a few rocks and …

05-11-2024 Bureau Report LAHORE: Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore will close primary schools for a week after it saw “unprecedented” pollution levels, government authorities have said. For days, the city of 14 million people has been enveloped by smog, a mix of fog and pollutants caused by low-grade diesel fumes, …

05-11-2024 DEARBORN, MICHIGAN: For more than a year, Layla Elabed says she and other Arab Americans have been at a “collective funeral”. “We’re grieving. We’re frustrated. We’re angry. We’re heartbroken. We feel betrayed,” Elabed said, finally taking a breath as she reflected on Israel’s raging wars on Gaza and Lebanon …