26-09-2024 BEIJING: China has said it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean. The ICMB was launched at 08:44 local time (04:44 GMT) on Wednesday and “fell into expected sea areas”, Beijing’s defence ministry said, adding that the test launch was “routine” …

26-09-2024 LA PAZ: Anti-government protesters have clashed with supporters of President Luis Arce in Bolivia’s capital, La Paz, as fears grow of further unrest in the Andean nation mired in an economic crisis ahead of next year’s presidential election. Riot police and supporters of Arce gathered to defend the government …

26-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the United Nations for inaction on Gaza and accused Israel of turning the Palestinian territory into the “world’s largest children’s and women’s cemetery”. Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he said, “In Gaza, …

26-09-2024 BEIRUT/ GAZA STRIP/ NEW YORK: Tens of thousands of people flee southern Lebanon with little idea where to find safety as intense Israeli bombardment across Lebanon kills at least 569 people, including 50 children, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Hezbollah confirmed that senior leader Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi was killed …

25-09-2024 MOSCOW: The Russian parliament is working on a law that would ban what the authorities cast as the harmful promotion of a child-free way of life with heavy fines for “childlessness propaganda”, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State …

25-09-2024 DHAKA: Bangladesh’s army chief vowed to back the country’s interim government “come what may” to help it complete key reforms after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, so that elections could be held within the next 18 months. General Waker-uz-Zaman and his troops stood aside in early August …

25-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s securities regulator, worried about malpractice in a frothy IPO market, is investigating six domestic investment banks that have worked on offerings by small businesses, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. The probes by the Securities and Exchange Board …

25-09-2024 DAKAR: Having slipped undetected into Mali’s capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. They killed dozens of students at an elite police training academy, stormed Bamako’s airport and set the presidential jet on fire. The Sept. 17 attack was the most brazen since 2016 in a …

25-09-2024 NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed rising “impunity, inequality, and unpredictability” throughout the world with a push for 193-member states to focus on “more effective, inclusive, and networked multilateralism”. US President Joe Biden delivered his final address to the world body on “how the world should come together” …

25-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ KABUL: Cats have more freedom than women in Afghanistan, Hollywood actress Meryl Streep has said in an appeal to the international community to stop the Taliban’s repression. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the actress pointed out that even animals had more rights now …