International

02-11-2023 MADRID: Spain’s Catholic Church Tuesday issued an apology to victims of sexual abuse perpetrated by priests, while also expressing reservations about the accuracy of a recent survey suggesting that such abuse might be more widespread nationwide than previous investigations indicated. The survey, included in a report by Spain’s human …

01-11-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel says there were “large exchanges” with Hamas in Gaza overnight as its ground offensive continues. The IDF says its forces were attacked by “terrorists” with anti-tank missiles and machine gun fire. Air strikes on the Gaza Strip also continued overnight – Israel says more than …

01-11-2023 TOKYO: Japan has announced sanctions against nine people and a company over their alleged links to the Palestinian armed group Hamas. Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday the measures would freeze assets belonging to individuals and a company that have helped fund Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. The …

01-11-2023 DAMASCUS: Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have launched a drone attack towards Israel’s southern city of Eilat in ‘retaliation’ for the war in Gaza. Israel reported having destroyed an unidentified “aerial target” over the Red Sea on Tuesday morning. Some hours later, a senior Houthi official told media that …

01-11-2023 WASHINTON: U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday signed an ambitious executive order on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that seeks to balance the needs of cutting-edge technology companies with national security and consumer rights, creating an early set of guardrails that could be fortified by legislation and global agreements. Before signing …

01-11-2023 JERUSALEM: It took one tweet over the weekend for cracks to emerge within the Israeli political establishment. Just after midnight on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote that he had never been informed about warnings of Hamas’s assault on Israel on October 7. Netanyahu instead seemed to place the …

01-11-2023 LONDON: A British MP for the ruling Conservative Party has been sacked from his role as a ministerial aide after calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. Paul Bristow, an aide to the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, had written a letter to Prime Minister …

Apple warns Indian opposition leaders of state-sponsored attacks 31-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Apple has warned over a half dozen Indian lawmakers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s main opposition of their iPhones being targets of state-sponsored attacks, these people said Tuesday, in a remarkable turn of events just …

‘It’s time for war’; no ceasefire until victory: Israel 31-10-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, ‘it’s time for war’, a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas “will not happen”, as the UN warned not enough aid was coming in to meet “unprecedented humanitarian needs”. Israeli ground …

31-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: On Thursday, as Australia woke to the news a body had been found inside the bathroom of an elite Sydney private school, horror rippled around the country. Police had turned up at St Andrew’s Cathedral School just before midnight, after a chilling triple-zero emergency …