05-08-2025 VIRGINIA: More than three thousand Boeing defence workers went on strike on Monday, in a fresh blow to the embattled aviation giant. It comes after union members at operations in Missouri and Illinois, who build F-15 fighter jets and other military aircraft, voted against the firm’s latest offer over …

05-08-2025 SANA’A: At least 68 migrants have died after a boat with about 157 people on board sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather. The vessel capsized off Yemen’s southern province of Abyan on Sunday, the Yemen chief for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told media. He …

04-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India will keep purchasing oil from Russia despite US President Donald Trump’s threats of penalties, two Indian government sources told media, not wishing to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. On top of a new 25% tariff on India’s exports to the …

04-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Sixty-two Palestinians, most of them aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn on Saturday, hospital sources in the besieged enclave have told media. The death toll includes 38 Palestinians seeking aid at distribution sites operated by the controversial United States and Israel-backed …

04-08-2025 MADRID/ OSLO: Cold Nordic countries are being seared by “truly unprecedented” heat, as hot weather strengthened and lengthened by carbon pollution continues to roast northern Europe. A weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July, while Finland …

04-08-2025 Warning: this news contains graphic and distressing testimony and images ADDIS ABABA/ MEKELLE: Hundreds of health workers across Tigray have documented mass rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy and sexual torture of women and children by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, in systematic attacks that amount to crimes against humanity, a …

04-08-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A court in southern India has sentenced a prominent politician in the state of Karnataka to life in prison after being found guilty of raping one of his domestic staff. The sentencing of Prajwal Revanna, who is from an influential political family in the state, …

04-08-2025 VATICAN CITY: Hundreds of thousands of young faithful feted Pope Leo XIV like a rock star on Saturday at an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, after the head of the Catholic Church made a dramatic entrance by helicopter. Pilgrims began crying and cheering when the white military helicopter descended …

04-08-2025 GAZA/ CAIRO: Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established, in response to one of Israel’s key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. The Palestinian armed group said it was responding to remarks it attributed to US President …

03-08-2025 PARIS/ GAZA STRIP: France on Friday started to air-drop 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza as it urged Israel to allow full access to the area which it said was slipping into famine. “Faced with the absolute urgency, we have just conducted a food airdrop operation in Gaza. …