14-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ GAZA/ JERUSALEM: The UN’s Security Council is meeting to discuss humanitarian conditions in Gaza amid warnings of famine in the north and relentless Israeli attacks that killed at least 63 people in 24 hours. The United States finds that Israel is not impeding aid to Gaza and says …
Read More »Trump-Putin phone call rumours ‘completely made up’: Russia
13-11-2024 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: Earlier, the BBC had been unable to independently verify reports that Donald Trump had spoken with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin last week. Now, after Trump’s team refused to comment on the alleged conversation, the Kremlin has flatly denied that any dialogue has taken place between Putin and …
Read More »Daniel Khalife pleads guilty to Iranian escape
13-11-2024 LONDON: A British soldier accused of passing sensitive information to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pleaded guilty on Monday to escaping from prison while awaiting trial. Daniel Abed Khalife is on trial at London’s Woolwich Crown Court, accused of collecting sensitive information between May 2019 and January 2022. Khalife, …
Read More »Israeli tanks roll into Gaza camp kills dozens
13-11-2024 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces sent tanks into the western side of Gaza’s Nuseirat camp on Monday in a new incursion into the enclave’s central area, and Palestinian medics said Israeli military strikes had killed at least 11 people since Sunday night. Residents said Israeli tanks opened fire as they …
Read More »Ghana opposition leader tipped to win presidential vote
13-11-2024 ACCRA: Ghana’s main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama looks set to win December’s presidential election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, placing him ahead of his main challenger, ruling party candidate Muhamudu Bawumia. Former president Mahama, 65, and current Vice President Bawumia, 60, are the two main contenders for …
Read More »Rape & murder of doctor’s trail starts in India’s Kolkata
13-11-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: A court in the eastern state of West Bengal began the trial on Monday of a police volunteer accused of raping and murdering a doctor at a government hospital in August, a case that has sparked outrage over the lack of safety …
Read More »No new ‘stage of talks’ with US on arms sales: Taiwan
13-11-2024 TAIPEI: There is no new “stage of talks” with the United States at the moment for arms sales, Taiwan’s government said on Monday, as the island considers how best to respond to US President-elect Donald Trump’s previous demands that Taipei pay for protection. Trump, who won a second term …
Read More »Trump told Putin not to escalate in Ukraine
13-11-2024 WEST PALM BEACH/ WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and advised him not to escalate the Ukraine war, a source familiar with the conversation said, but the Kremlin denied the two had spoken. The source told Reuters on Sunday that Trump, who has criticized …
Read More »Japan opposition party admits to extra-marital affair
13-11-2024 TOKYO: Yuichiro Tamaki, the head of the Japanese opposition party that has emerged as kingmaker as lawmakers select the next prime minister on Monday, said a tabloid report about his extra-marital affair with a model was “basically true”. “I apologize for the trouble caused,” the Democratic Party for the …
Read More »‘2024 is on track to be hottest year on record’
12-11-2024 BAKU: Scientists say 2024 it is on track to become the hottest year on record. In its latest State of the Climate report, released on the first day of the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, the World Meteorological Organization paints a sobering picture. The report shows 2015-2024 to …
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