International

10-11-2023 BRUSSELS: Scientists at the European Union (EU) revealed Wednesday that 2023 is set to be the world’s hottest year on record in 125,000 years after data showed last month was the hottest October by a massive margin. According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Deputy Director Samantha …

10-11-2023 UNITED NATIONS: UN human rights chief Volker Turk says Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face a “living nightmare”, and urges a ceasefire. Israel’s Netanyahu again rejects the prospect of a ceasefire without the release of captives in Gaza as the Israeli military claims Hamas is “losing control” of the …

10-11-2023 MOSCOW: Russia has officially withdrawn from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty) at midnight on November 7, 2023, the country’s foreign ministry said, citing NATO’s expansion and the failure of the United States to ratify an adaptation of the treaty as reasons for its withdrawal. …

09-11-2023 LONDON/ MADRID: The mother of a girl whose photo was used in Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated naked images says hundreds of parents have told her their children are also victims. Miriam Al Adib’s daughter was one of several children from a Spanish village who had indecent images created using …

09-11-2023 Bureau Report MELBOURNE/ SYDNEY: Millions of Australians were left without mobile and internet after a network failure at telecoms firm Optus. The failure caused transport delays, cut hospital phone lines, and shut down payment systems. Optus, the country’s second-largest provider, said more than 10 million people and thousands of …

09-11-2023 JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will have “overall security responsibility” for the Gaza Strip “for an indefinite period”. Netanyahu’s first comments on Israel’s plan for Gaza after the war came in an interview with the ABC News network in the US. However, he did not elaborate …

09-11-2023 LONDON: Shadow minister Imran Hussain has quit Labour’s frontbench in protest at Sir Keir Starmer’s position on the Israel-Hamas war. Hussain’s decision will be a blow for the Labour leader, who has been attempting to hold his party together in an increasingly fractious debate over whether the leadership should …

09-11-2023 COLUMBUS, OHIO: Columbus area residents Beth and Kyle Long held hands as they walked into the Franklin County early voting centre to cast their ballots for a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine abortion and other reproductive rights into the state’s constitution. Beth, now 18 weeks pregnant after in …

09-11-2023 GAZA CITY: Palestinian Red Crescent says Israeli forces targeted the International Red Cross humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza City. Doctors Without Borders staff member killed in Gaza, MSF calls for action to “stop bloodshed”. Israel killing Palestinian children at unprecedented rate, according to rights group, Defense for Children International-Palestine. …

08-11-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna has called a deepfake video of herself, which has gone viral on social media, “extremely scary”. Ms Mandanna’s face was morphed onto an Instagram video posted by a British-Indian woman named Zara Patel. India’s information technology minister has called …