24-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Ukraine on Friday, just weeks after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The visit is significant because Kyiv and some Western capitals had reacted sharply to Modi’s visit to the Russian capital in July. …

Harris to make pitch to ‘all Americans’ in biggest speech of career 23-08-2024 CHICAGO: Kamala Harris will soon deliver the biggest speech of her life on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. You can watch live at the top of this page. Harris will formally accept …

23-08-2024 SYDNEY: Google opens new tab and Australia’s national science agency said they will work together to develop software that automatically detects and fixes network vulnerabilities for operators of critical infrastructure, seeking to contend with a surge in cyberattacks. The software for organizations such as hospitals, defence bodies and energy …

23-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India is likely to begin conducting a long-delayed population census in September, two government sources said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to plug important data gaps in his third term after years of criticism. India’s once-a-decade census was due to be completed …

23-08-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel’s outgoing head of military intelligence took responsibility for his country’s failures to defend its border on Oct. 7 at his resignation ceremony on Wednesday. Major General Aharon Haliva, a 38-year veteran of the military, announced his resignation in April and was one of a number of senior …

23-08-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LAHORE/ LONDON: A Pakistani man has appeared in court to face charges of cyber-terrorism after allegedly spreading disinformation on his clickbait website thought to have fueled anti-immigration riots in the United Kingdom. Farhan Asif was accused of publishing an article on his Channel3Now website …

23-08-2024 NEW YORK: The Moon’s South Pole was once covered in an ocean of liquid molten rock, according to scientists. The findings back up a theory that magma formed the Moon’s surface around 4.5 billion years ago. Remnants of the ocean were found by India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed …

23-08-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah has launched dozens of rockets at the occupied Golan Heights after Israeli aircraft struck deep inside Lebanon, as fears of an all-out war grow. The Israeli military said it hit Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in the Bekaa Valley overnight. The Lebanese health ministry said one person was …

23-08-2024 LONDON: Divers searching the wreckage of a superyacht which sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday have found the bodies of five of the six missing passengers, and recovered four of them to shore. The Italian Coastguard has not formally identified the bodies which have been brought up …

22-08-2024 MOSCOW: Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones shot down by air defences in what Russian officials said was one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022. The war, largely a grinding artillery and drone battle …