International

30-10-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said the Israeli parliament’s decision to ban his organization increases the suffering of Palestinians and is “nothing less than collective punishment”. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least 60 people have been killed …

30-10-2024 UNITED NATIONS: National pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions fall significantly short of those needed to limit catastrophic global warming, says the United Nations before climate change negotiations next month. The “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) are enough to cut global emissions by 2.6 percent from 2019 to 2030, up …

30-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez have inaugurated India’s first private military aircraft plant, boosting New Delhi’s ambitions of growing local manufacturing in its defence and aerospace industries. Sanchez was welcomed to India on Monday with a flower-filled …

30-10-2024 GLAND, SWITZERLAND: More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The report published on Monday has …

30-10-2024 WASHINGTON: Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris is promising to reassess which federal jobs require a college degree if elected as United States president. Harris was campaigning in Michigan on Monday and told workers at a semiconductor facility in Saginaw County that the country needed to change the idea that …

30-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Israel’s parliament has voted to pass legislation banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating within Israel and Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, within three months. Contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials will also be banned, severely limiting the agency’s ability to operate in Gaza and …

30-10-2024 PYONGYANG: North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia and are operating in the Kursk border region where Ukrainian troops have a foothold, NATO has said for the first time. The alliance’s Secretary General, Mark Rutte, said he could confirm the deployment after weeks of intelligence reports, following a …

30-10-2024 TBILISI: Thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets to protest against the disputed parliamentary election after the pro-Western opposition and president called for mass protests against what they called a “rigged” vote. Demonstrators gathered outside the main parliament building in the capital, Tbilisi, on Monday to denounce the …

29-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed the strengthening ties between India and Germany, citing recent collaborations as evidence of their deepening friendship. Speaking at the 18th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business 2024, PM Modi said, “On one hand, the CEO Forum meeting …

29-10-2024 BEIJING: China has slammed the latest round of United States arms sales to Taiwan, vowing to take “all necessary measures” to assert its sovereignty over the self-ruled island it claims as its own. The US State Department on Friday approved a $2bn arms sale package for Taiwan, including advanced …