04-02-2023 JERUSLAME: The Israeli occupation has launched a large-scale campaign of brutal repression against Palestinian prisoners, most notably female prisoners, in the wake of failed talks between the prisoners’ representatives and the occupation’s Prison Service. Simultaneously, the Waed Prisoners’ Association announced that 120 prisoners in Al-Naqab Prison are continuing their …

04-02-2023 WASHINGTON: Majid Khan, a Pakistani man who has described in graphic detail his torture by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has been transferred from the Guantanamo Bay US detention facility in Cuba to Belize, the Pentagon said …

04-02-2023 BEIJING: China’s foreign ministry has expressed regret over what it called a civilian balloon straying into United States airspace. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said the balloon suspected by the US of conducting surveillance was a civilian “airship” used for research, mainly for meteorological purposes. The statement …

04-02-2023 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Up to 40 countries could boycott the next Olympic Games, making the whole event pointless, said Poland’s sport and tourism minister Kamil Bortniczuk. His comments came after Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia jointly rejected an International Olympic Committee (IOC) plan to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete …

04-02-2023 JUBA: Twenty-seven people have been killed in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state in tit-for-tat violence between cattle herders and members of a militia on the eve of a visit to the country by Pope Francis. The incident happened on Thursday, according to a local official. The pope is set …

04-02-2023 JERUSALEM: Every Saturday evening for the past month, thousands of Israelis have taken part in antigovernmental protests across the country. Their handmade signs reveal the focus of the demonstrations: “Democracy for everyone” read one, in Hebrew and English. Others spelled out the participants’ support for the Israeli Supreme Court, …

04-02-2023 WASHINGTON: The Pentagon says it is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over United States’ airspace, reviving tensions between the two powers just days before the top US diplomat’s visit to Beijing. “The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over …

03-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian journalist Siddique Kappan, who was held in custody for more than two years without a trial, walked free on Thursday after being granted bail in a money laundering case. Kappan was arrested in October 2020 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where he …

03-02-2023 ABUJA: More than 13,000 people from two communities in Nigeria have filed individual claims against the oil company Shell at the High Court in London. Residents from the Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta want Shell to clean up oil spills and compensate them for the damage …

03-02-2023 TEHRAN: Iran has blamed Israel for a drone attack on a military site in the central city of Isfahan on Saturday. Its ambassador to the UN said findings indicated Israel “was responsible for this attempted act of aggression”. Iran, he said, reserves the right “to respond resolutely to any …