07-10-2024 GAZA STRIP: It has been one year of what UN experts have called Israel’s genocide in Gaza: 365 days of unrelenting Israeli bombardment, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. This has been a war of many firsts, breaking records in scale and brutality. Marking …

07-10-2024 BEIRUT: Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, eyewitnesses said, sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometers away. The strikes came after days of bombing by Israel of Beirut suburbs considered …

07-10-2024 BUDAPEST: Thousands of Hungarians gathered outside the headquarters of the country’s state television on Saturday, protesting against what they described as the government’s “propaganda machine” and calling for an independent public service media. The protestors, from the opposition TISZA party, say that the state broadcaster MTVA is running biased …

07-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: India’s ruling party is projected to have lost two key provincial elections to the main opposition Congress party and its allies, exit polls showed, suggesting another setback after the party fared poorly in national elections. Local media reported that Congress had a …

07-10-2024 TAIPEI: It is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become Taiwan’s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island’s President Lai Ching-te said on Saturday. Lai, who took office in May, is condemned by Beijing as a “separatist”. He rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, saying that the …

07-10-2024 NAYPYIDAW: Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State, killing his son. “It felt like a nightmare. I still struggle to find the words to describe it,” said U Khup Thang, an ethnic Chin farmer and laborer. Like others …

07-10-2024 BRASILIA: The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has attempted to pay fines owed to the Brazilian government in a bid to resume services in the country but the media reported on Friday that Brazil’s Supreme Court has yet to lift the site’s suspension, saying the fees …

07-10-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized French President Emmanuel Macron over his call to halt arms deliveries to Israel for use in Gaza. Macron told France Inter radio that “the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to fight in …

06-10-2024 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will present Kyiv’s “victory plan” during an upcoming meeting of Western allies in Germany. “We will present the victory plan, clear, specific steps for a just end to the war,” Zelenskiy wrote on October 5, referring to the all-out war with Russia that began …

06-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Friday directed an investigation team to probe allegations that a sacred offering at one of the most visited Hindu temples was adulterated with animal fat that is considered sacrilege, the Bar and Bench legal website reported. The allegation that …