31-07-2024 BANGUI: A group of scientists say they have found new evidence to back up their theory that complex life on Earth may have begun 1.5 billion years earlier than thought. The team, working in Gabon, say they discovered evidence deep within rocks showing environmental conditions for animal life 2.1 …

31-07-2024 DHAKA: An image is worth a thousand words, sometimes, it can even stir a nation. In Bangladesh, it was the image of university student Abu Sayeed standing with open arms, stick in hand, facing heavily-armed police alone which many credit as the turning point in the recent widespread protest …

31-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of its investigation into the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. In a call with reporters on Monday, the FBI did not give a date for the interview, …

31-07-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli far-right protesters have broken into an army base in a show of support for soldiers accused of severely mistreating a Palestinian prisoner there. Large crowds gathered outside the Sde Teiman compound after Israeli military police entered it to detain the reservists, who are now subject to an …

31-07-2024 CARACAS: Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people protesting over Sunday’s disputed election result. Thousands of people descended on central Caracas on Monday evening, some walking for miles from slums on the mountains surrounding the city, towards the presidential palace. Protests erupted in …

30-07-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday emphasized the importance of a “just and enduring peace” for Ukraine in a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the State Department said, opens new tab. The discussion came amid a visit being reportedly planned to Ukraine …

30-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris’s election campaign said on Sunday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, as Republicans continued to hammer Harris over her work as vice president. President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid …

30-07-2024 PARIS: The official Nike kits for American women competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics have been slammed as “a costume born of patriarchal forces” by one track athlete and “treating women as second-class citizens” by a commentator on Nike’s Instagram page because of the skimpy nature of the swimming …

30-07-2024 NAYPYIDAW: In October of 2021, La Awng travelled from his native Kachin State in Myanmar to Laukkai, the capital of the country’s autonomous Kokang region near the border with China, planning to work in a casino. Instead, he was trafficked into a cyber-scamming business run by Chinese criminal networks. …

30-07-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Since October, the near-daily cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed militia and political movement in Lebanon, have killed hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands from their homes on both sides, raising fears that the relatively contained violence could escalate into an all-out …