International

25-02-2024 NEW YORK: The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the US since 1972, the company behind the vehicle said on Friday. …

25-02-2024 NEW DELHI/ JERUSALEM: Israel’s military exports to India, its largest defence buyer, have not been affected by the war in Gaza, an Indian source and an Israeli source aware of the details said. India has imported military hardware worth $2.9 billion from Israel over the last decade, including radars, …

25-02-2024 LONDON: King Charles has been cheered up by some of the 7,000 cards of support sent to him during his cancer treatment, including those taking a humorous view. They included a card with a picture of a dog wearing a protective cone saying: “At least you don’t have to …

25-02-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday (Feb 24) that Israel’s plans of building new settlements in occupied West Bank were “inconsistent with international law”. He was speaking at a news conference in Buenos Aires. He said that the United States was “disappointed” after Israel’s …

25-02-2024 HATFIELD: When she arrived in England almost two years ago, Mila Panchenko thought her months-long journey from the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol was over and she could settle down but, after moving home four times since then, the 55-year-old Ukrainian has been declared homeless and her future is …

24-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SHAMBHU: Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their crops burned effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers on Friday as they sought to expand their protest against his government months before elections. Thousands of farmers began a ‘Delhi Chalo’ (Let’s go …

24-02-2024 JERUSALEM: The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says it has gathered evidence Hamas gunmen “systematically and intentionally” committed sexual crimes during the 7 October attacks. A report by the umbrella organization describes “identical patterns” of sexual violence at multiple locations. These allegedly included violent rapes of women …

24-02-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: A 28-year-old police officer has been charged with murdering missing Australian TV personality Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies. Detectives launched a frantic search on Wednesday after the couple’s bloodied items were found in a bin near Sydney. Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, Baird’s ex-boyfriend, was …

24-02-2024 LONDON, ONTARIO: A Canadian white supremacist who deliberately ran over four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders. Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was convicted in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for the attack that …

24-02-2024 EDINBURGH: Scientists have revealed a new, remarkably complete fossil, a 16ft (5m)-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period. The creature dates back 240 million years and has been dubbed a “dragon” because of its extremely long neck. It is called Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a species that was originally identified back …