26-08-2024 BRASILIA: Hundreds of migrants from India, Nepal and Vietnam have been stuck in Sao Paulo’s international airport for weeks in alarming conditions, sleeping on the floor as they wait to enter Brazil, according to the Public Defender’s Office and documents seen by Reuters on Friday. A spokesman for the …

26-08-2024 PARIS: Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported. According to officials the 39-year-old had been arrested under a warrant for offences related to …

26-08-2024 KHARTOUM: The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) which claims to be the government of Sudan took a small step towards alleviating that famine earlier this week by allowing 15 UN aid Lorries to cross the border from Chad to bring food to the starving. Aid agencies hope that it opens …

26-08-2024 ROME: Italian authorities investigating the deaths of seven people in the sinking of a luxury yacht in Sicily say they are looking into potential crimes of “shipwreck and manslaughter”. They stressed, however, that the investigation was in its initial stages and they were not currently looking at anyone specifically. …

26-08-2024 LOS ANGELES: Two National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts who have been stuck in space for over two months will return to Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX. NASA said the Boeing Starliner spacecraft the astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had travelled to International Space Station (ISS) …

25-08-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Hezbollah says it has fired more than 320 rockets towards Israel targeting 11 military sites in the northern part of the country. The group says it is beginning a “large-scale” operation and has sent drones as well as Katyusha rockets towards Israel. Israel’s military says it …

25-08-2024 NEW DELHI/ DHAKA: Floodwaters have inundated parts of India and Bangladesh, stranding millions of people in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region. The death toll in Bangladesh, which is still recovering from weeks of political turmoil, had risen to 13 on Friday. Some 4.5 million people were affected …

25-08-2024 THE HAGUE/ GAZA CITY: The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on judges to “urgently” rule on his request for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others linked to the war on Gaza. Prosecutor Karim Khan said that “any unjustified delay in …

25-08-2024 GAZA CITY: During the past 48-hour reporting period, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed 69 Palestinians and wounded 212, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. A Hamas delegation, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, has arrived in Cairo amid continuing Gaza ceasefire talks. Reports say the group will be …

25-08-2024 PARIS: An explosion outside a synagogue in southern France is being investigated by authorities as “attempted terrorist murder”. Police said the explosion was caused by two cars being set alight outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the resort town of La Grande-Motte. One of the vehicles contained a hidden …