International

16-05-2024 AMMAN: Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the US-allied kingdom to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter. The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a cell …

16-05-2024 GENEVA: Conflict has forced more than 68 million people to leave their homes as of the end of 2023, the highest figure since data became available 15 years ago. Natural disasters made a further 7.7 million people homeless, pushing the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) to a …

16-05-2024 BRATISLAVA: Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been injured in a shooting and taken to hospital, the country’s deputy speaker confirmed during a session of parliament. The incident occurred after a Slovakian government meeting at a location outside Bratislava, the news agency TASR reported on Wednesday. Reports on …

16-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: The Biden administration has told Congress that it plans to send a $1bn package of military aid to Israel, according to media reports, despite the United States’s opposition to a full-scale invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza and concerns about rising civilian deaths. The US Department of …

16-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court says the arrest of NewsClick website’s Founder and Editor Prabir Purkayastha last year under a stringent antiterrorism law was illegal and has ordered his release on bail. Purkayastha was arrested in October, nearly two months after a New York Times …

16-05-2024 GAZA CITY: Last month, the Israeli military finally withdrew from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind nothing but apocalyptic scenes of death and destruction. Grounds were littered with dead bodies. Most buildings were burned and reduced to empty shells What Gaza lost in al-Shifa was much …

16-05-2024 PARIS: An “unprecedented” manhunt is taking place in northern France for a prisoner who escaped during a deadly ambush. Mohamed Amra, known as “The Fly”, was being taken back to jail from a court in Normandy on Tuesday when a car rammed his prison van at a toll booth. …

15-05-2024 LONDON: In a week’s time, WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange could be on a flight to the United States at the end of his years-long legal battle to avoid extradition. Whatever happens, his wife Stella vows the fight for his freedom will go on? At a hearing at London’s High …

15-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price-based inflation (INWPI=ECI), opens new tab rose 1.26% in April, the highest pace in a year, mainly driven by food and primary articles, government data showed on Tuesday. The April figures were higher than the 1% rise expected by economists polled …

15-05-2024 PARIS: Violence has erupted in New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in the South Pacific, after lawmakers in Paris discussed a draft constitutional amendment to allow recent arrivals to the territory to vote in provincial elections. The bill, which some local leaders fear will dilute the vote of indigenous …