25-07-2022 BEIJING: China’s population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, the state backed Global Times reported, citing a senior health official. Birth data released late on Sunday showed that the number of new births in 2021 was the lowest in decades in several …

24-07-2022 TEHRAN: The founder of WhatsApp made a record $2 million donation to the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) campaign in the Democratic primaries in the US last month. Ukrainian-born Jewish inventor, Jan Koum, made the donation to help defeat pro-Palestinian candidates. Details uncovered by Israel’s …

24-07-2022 OTTAWA: Pope Francis will arrive in Canada on Sunday to commence a cross-country trip to seek penance for the devastation the Catholic Church inflicted upon Indigenous peoples who attended abusive Indian Residential Schools. Following a historic apology given by the pontiff to Indigenous delegates and survivors of the notorious …

24-07-2022 BAMAKO: An armed group in Mali affiliated with al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the country’s main military base near the capital, which it said was a response to governmental collaboration with Russian mercenaries. The Katiba Macina claimed the attack in the strategic garrison town near …

24-07-2022 TEHRAN: Iran’s intelligence ministry has announced the arrest of a network of agents linked to Israel’s Mossad who entered Iran to carry out attacks against “sensitive” sites, state media reported. The suspects entered Iran from northern Iraq, but were arrested before they were able to carry out sabotage and …

24-07-2022 The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries an “emergency of international concern”. The WHO label, a “public health emergency of international concern” is designed to sound an alarm that a coordinated international response is needed and could unlock funding and global …

23-07-2022 GAZA/ JERUSALEM: On May 11 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned journalist in the Middle East who reported from the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel was brutally murdered by the Israeli forces but for Gaza-based journalist Wafa al Udainy, this was not the first time that journalists had been …

23-07-2022 COLOMBO: The military in Sri Lanka has taken control of the presidential secretariat in Colombo, after what members of the country’s months-long protest movement described as a “brutal assault”. Soldiers overnight also destroyed tents at the adjacent GotaGoGama protest site, arrested several protest leaders and cordoned off the area …

23-07-2022 TRIPOLI: Intense clashes have erupted between rival factions in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, with reports of dozens people killed amid growing concern that a political standoff could prompt renewed conflict. Clashes occurred early on Friday in the central district near the Radisson Blu hotel, an area where several government …

21-07-2022 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump “blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption” as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 US election, the chairman of the House committee investigating last year’s attack on the Capitol said Thursday. Bennie Thompson, speaking at the televised prime-time finale of a series …