03-11-2024 MADRID: Spain is sending 5,000 more soldiers and 5,000 more police to the eastern region of Valencia after deadly floods this week, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced. In a televised address on Saturday, Sanchez said the disaster was the second-deadliest flood in Europe this century and that Spain …

03-11-2024 LONDON: Kemi Badenoch has won the race to become the new leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, pledging to return it to its founding principles and win back voters after its worst election defeat in July. Badenoch, 44, came out on top in the two-horse race with former …

02-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip during last 24 hours, mostly in the north where one attack hit a hospital, torching medical supplies and disrupting operations, the enclave’s health officials said. Israel’s military has accused the Palestinian militant group …

02-11-2024 NEW YORK: If Elon Musk joins the United States government following a Donald Trump victory in the presidential election, he will be the latest in a succession of billionaire businesspeople to hold public office. From the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg …

02-11-2024 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s central bank is well-equipped to deal with a potential sudden outflow of foreign funds and any steep fall in the rupee if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins next week’s US presidential election, two sources familiar with the bank’s thinking said. The Reserve Bank of India …

02-11-2024 MAPUTO: Rights activist Cidia Chissungo has spent the last few days poring over images she never thought she’d see in Mozambique: Young men with bloodied bodies pockmarked with bullet wounds; teenagers with eyes swollen shut from being hit with tear gas canisters by the Mozambican police. Chissungo, 28, who …

02-11-2024 WASHINGTON: In the US Electoral College, a candidate needs at least 270 out of 538 electoral votes to win the election. Each state is allocated a certain number of electoral votes based on its population. Some states consistently favor one party, while “battleground” or “swing states” can shift, making …

02-11-2024 PYONGYANG: North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes – the longest flight recorded yet before falling into waters off its east, South Korea and Japan said. The ICBM was fired at a sharply-raised angle and reached as high as 7,000km (4,350 miles). This …

02-11-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Senior American officials have returned to the Middle East to try to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the negotiators had made “good progress” on Thursday on a potential deal. Brett McGurk, President Biden’s Middle East coordinator, …

02-11-2024 MADRID: At least 158 people have died in Spain’s worst flooding disaster in generations as rescuers battle odds to find survivors. On Thursday more than 1,200 workers, aided by drones, were deployed to the rescue mission as rains continued to threaten parts of the country. “Right now the most …