18-09-2024 SEATTLE: Boeing is freezing hiring and weighing temporary furloughs to cut costs as a strike by more than 30,000 workers entered its fourth day on Monday. The planemaker and union leadership badly misjudged anger among union members who backed a strike with 96% support last week, stopping production of …
Read More »Central Europe braces for further flooding as death toll rises
18-09-2024 JESENIK/ LITOVEL: Residents of several areas of Poland and the Czech Republic rushed to evacuate on Monday as others in central Europe began cleaning up after the worst flooding in over two decades left a trail of destruction and a rising number of deaths. Border areas between the Czech …
Read More »US strategy for anti-ship weapons to counter China
18-09-2024 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States is amassing an arsenal of abundant and easily made anti-ship weapons as part of American efforts to deter China in the Indo-Pacific region and gear up US forces there. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed US thinking toward a new philosophy “affordable mass,” as …
Read More »Atishi to be new Chief Minister of India’s capital Delhi 17-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Delhi minister Atishi will take over as the new chief minister of India’s national capital territory after the resignation of incumbent Arvind Kejriwal, says the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The announcement was …
Read More »Netanyahu expands war goals amid ongoing Gaza onslaught
Netanyahu expands war goals amid ongoing Gaza onslaught 17-09-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City, following a day of bombardment that killed at least 35 people across Gaza, the Palestinian Civil Defence says. Israeli PM Netanyahu has announced expanded war goals …
Read More »India opposition leader Kejriwal says will resign as Delhi CM
17-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal says he will resign as chief minister of the capital New Delhi’s regional government, a day after his release from prison on bail in a corruption case. “Today I have come to ask the public whether you consider …
Read More »Children among dozens killed in Israeli attacks
17-09-2024 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces pounded Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, killing 10 Palestinians, including several children. The attacks followed a day of assaults that killed more than a dozen people across the enclave. The Israeli military, reversing months of denials, admitted there was a “high probability” that …
Read More »‘Catastrophe’ as deadly floods hit Central & Eastern Europe
17-09-2024 VIENNA: A firefighter died during a flood rescue in Austria and one person drowned in Poland, as torrential rain caused by Storm Boris continued to wreak havoc across Central and Eastern Europe. In Romania, five people have died, while several remain unaccounted for in the Czech Republic. The Austrian …
Read More »America faces a new normal in political violence
17-09-2024 WASHINGTON: After decades without political violence directed at a presidential candidate from one of the major parties, the US has now experienced this twice in the space of two months with former president Donald Trump the target on both occasions. In mid-July, he narrowly avoided being shot in the …
Read More »US denies claim CIA plotted to kill Venezuela president
17-09-2024 WASHINGTON: The United States has dismissed claims made by Venezuela that the CIA plotted to assassinate President Maduro and other top officials. Three US citizens, two Spaniards and one Czech national have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to destabilize the country, the Interior Minister said. Calling the detainees …
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