International

09-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Last month brought good news for the great Indian bustard, a critically endangered bird found mainly in India. Wildlife officials in the western state of Rajasthan have performed the first successful hatching of a chick through artificial insemination. A lone adult male in …

09-11-2024 SEOUL: South Korea’s president has apologized for a string of controversies surrounding his wife that included allegedly accepting a luxury Dior handbag and stock manipulation. Addressing the nation on television, Yoon Suk Yeol said his wife, Kim Keon Hee, should have conducted herself better, but her portrayal had been …

08-11-2024 JERUSALEM: The Israeli parliament has passed a law allowing the government to deport the family members of people convicted of terrorism offences, including Israeli citizens. The controversial legislation, proposed by a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, applies to first-degree relatives, meaning the parents, siblings or children …

08-11-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has said that it targeted an Israeli military base south of Tel Aviv with a swarm of drones “for the first time”, as Israel launched renewed air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut city. Hezbollah fighters launched a “squadron of attack drones …

08-11-2024 GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA: A United States military judge has ruled that plea agreements reached with the alleged plotters of the September 11, 2001, attacks are valid, reversing an order by the country’s defence minister. The order by the judge, Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall, means the three accused men …

08-11-2024 BEIRUT: First responders have recovered the bodies of 30 people killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment building south of Beirut, Lebanon’s Civil Defence agency says. Tuesday evening’s attack destroyed one side of the four-storey building that was reportedly housing displaced people in the predominantly Sunni Muslim …

08-11-2024 ALGIERS: For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s blood-soaked “dark decade”, in which up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed in …

08-11-2024 WASHINGTON: Republicans have retaken control of the US Senate, after flipping seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana. The results guarantee the Republicans at least 52 out of 100 seats in the new chamber, with a handful of races still undecided. Jim Justice, West Virginia’s current governor, won the …

08-11-2024 BERLIN: Germany’s governing coalition is in crisis after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year. Scholz said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who leads a rival party that has been …

08-11-2024 CANBERRA: Australia’s government says it will introduce world-first legislation to ban children under 16 from social media. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed laws, to be tabled in parliament next week, were aimed at mitigating the “harm” social media was inflicting on Australian children. “This one is for …