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 …

03-02-2023 VIENNA: Four men have been given long jail sentences for being accomplices to murder in a deadly terror attack by a lone jihadist gunman in the heart of Austria’s capital in November 2020. Kujtim Fejzulai went on the rampage in Vienna’s busy nightlife area known as the Bermuda Triangle, …

03-02-2023 WASHINGTON: The US has secured access to four additional military bases in the Philippines, a key bit of real estate which would offer a front seat to monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan. With the deal, Washington has stitched the gap in the arc …

03-02-2023 OSLO: Police in Norway have banned a planned protest including the burning of a copy of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, hours after the Turkish foreign ministry summoned the Norwegian ambassador to complain. A group of protesters planned to burn a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish …

03-02-2023 PYONGYANG/ SEOUL: North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that drills by the United States and its allies have pushed the situation to an “extreme red-line” and threaten to turn the peninsula into a “huge war arsenal and a more critical war zone.” The statement, carried by state news …

03-02-2023 WASHINGTON: Kevin McCarthy is spearheading an effort to prevent Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from serving on the chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee due to her prior criticism of Israel. This is one of his first actions as speaker of the US House of Representatives. The proposal to dismiss Omar from the …