International

20-06-2024 GENEVA: Israeli forces may have repeatedly violated fundamental principles of the laws of war and failed to distinguish between civilians and fighters in their Gaza Strip military campaign, the United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday. In a report assessing six Israeli attacks that caused a high number …

20-06-2024 CANBERRA: Chinese officials appear to have blocked a formerly imprisoned journalist from the view of cameras at an event between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra. Cheng Lei, who was imprisoned by Beijing for three years, later said she believed two embassy officials …

20-06-2024 MEXICO CITY: New Mexico’s governor has declared a state of emergency as two wildfires sweep through a mountain range, forcing thousands to evacuate and leaving one person dead. The conflagrations converged near the village of Ruidoso inside a tribal reservation, prompting its 7,800 residents to flee. The South Fork …

20-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s capital Delhi is reeling under a prolonged heatwave that has sent power demand soaring to a record 8,647 megawatts (MW) this week. Temperatures have hovered around 44-45C in the city and other parts of northern India for weeks. The widespread use of …

20-06-2024 GAZA CITY: Across the Gaza Strip, in a landscape newly transformed by war, mountains of stinking rubbish pose severe dangers to health and the environment. “We’ve never lived next to rubbish before,” says Asmahan al-Masri, a displaced woman, originally from Beit Hanoun in the north, whose home is now …

20-06-2024 SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA: Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab became the world’s most valuable company on Tuesday, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab as its high-end processors play a central role in a scramble to dominate artificial intelligence technology. Shares of the chipmaker climbed 3.5% to $135.58, lifting …

19-06-2024 WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden has unveiled one of the largest immigration regularization programs in recent history, offering a pathway to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the country. The new measures, announced on Tuesday, will allow some undocumented spouses of US citizens …

19-06-2024 WELLINGTON/ PORT MORESBY: If a plane has to make an unscheduled landing, that often means there’s been some kind of medical emergency on board but an Air New Zealand plane had a very different reason for making an unplanned stop yesterday, they were picking up the country’s prime minister …

19-06-2024 MANILA/ BEIJING: China’s embassy in the Philippines accused the US military of “hypocrisy, malign intention and double standards” in response to a report of secret U.S. campaign to undermine confidence in a Chinese vaccines and other aid during the COVID-19 pandemic. The remarks made by the spokesperson of the …

19-06-2024 PARIS:  The leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, appealed to voters on Tuesday to hand his party an absolute majority in upcoming parliamentary elections so that it is able to govern effectively. Bardella’s eurosceptic, anti-immigration party has its first real chance of winning national power in …