19-10-2023 JERUSALEM/ WASHINTON: US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday hours after Israel launched a deadly airstrike on a hospital in Gaza City, martyring hundreds of Palestinians and drawing condemnations from world leaders. Biden on a solidarity visit to Israel backed the ally´s account that Palestinian fighters …
Read More »China rejects ‘bloc confrontation’ as BRI forum begins
19-10-2023 BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country rejected “economic coercion” and “bloc confrontation” Wednesday, at the opening ceremony of a forum of international delegates to the forum marking the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Beijing. Xi also lauded his grand plan of building …
Read More »Biden arrives in Israel for high-stakes wartime visit
19-10-2023 JERUSALEM: US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday hours after Israel launched a deadly airstrike on a hospital in Gaza City, martyring hundreds of Palestinians and drawing condemnations from world leaders. Biden has expressed “iron-clad” support for Israel in its war against Hamas over the October …
Read More »Ethnic cleansing committed in Sudan: UK
19-10-2023 KHARTOUM/ DARFUR: The BBC has seen new evidence of the brutal ethnic violence that has swept western Sudan since fighting broke out between two rival military factions in April. Analysis of satellite and social media data reveals at least 68 villages in Darfur have been set on fire by …
Read More »World slams Israel for barbaric attack on Gaza hospital
18-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies GAZA CITY/ JERUSALEM/ ISLAMABAD: An Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza City has martyred at least 500 people in the deadliest single incident since Israel launched an unrelenting bombing campaign in retaliation for the October 7 Hamas cross-border attack. The inhumane attack on …
Read More »India’s top court declines to legalize same-sex marriage
18-10-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has declined an appeal to legalize same-sex marriages in a blow for LGBTQ rights in the world’s most populous country. The top court announced the ruling on Tuesday after hearing arguments in April and May, with three of five justices finding that …
Read More »Gaza journalists race against deadlines and death
18-10-2023 GAZA CITY: Freelance journalist Rakan Abdelrahman works out of a cafe, wearing his vest marked “press”, ready to rush out if he needs to as he reports on Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip but Abdelrahman, whose work has appeared in Middle East Eye and The National, is not …
Read More »Biden to visit Israel today as Gaza bombardment continues
18-10-2023 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that President Joe Biden is set to pay a solidarity visit to Israel, soon after revealing that Tel Aviv agreed to devise a plan for providing humanitarian aid to Gaza’s civilians. During the visit, the top US diplomat said …
Read More »Iran warns Israel of imminent action if attacks worsens in Gaza
18-10-2023 TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign minister warned on Monday that a regional network of militias known in parts of the Middle East as the “axis of resistance” would open “multiple fronts” against Israel if its attacks continued to kill civilians in Gaza. “Time is running out very fast,” the official, Hossein …
Read More »Pro-Khalistan group announces $21,000 donation for Palestinians
18-10-2023 LONDON: Pro-Khalistan advocacy group, Sikh for Justice (SFJ), has announced a $21,000 donation to aid those who have been affected by the Israeli bombing in Gaza. The donation has been sent to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees by the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara …
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