09-05-2023 KUALA LUMPUR: For 12-year-old Zaffan (played by Zafreen Zairizal), going through puberty is literally a beast. When she discovers that her body is morphing in terrifying ways and her community sidelines her, Zaffan has no choice but to accept her true self, revealing her beauty, wrath and power to …
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09-05-2023 NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump has rejected his last chance to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist has accused him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996. Trump, a Republican candidate for president in 2024, was given until 5pm …
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09-05-2023 KINSHASA: The death toll following flooding and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week has risen to at least 401, according to Theo Ngwabidje Kasi, governor of South Kivu province in the east of the central African country. At least 176 people were reported dead on Friday …
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09-05-2023 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban government have agreed to boost trade and lower tensions along their border amid a surge in attacks on Pakistani security forces, officials said. Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, struck the deal on …
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09-05-2023 KHARTOUM: The last place Lina Mijok wanted to go as she fled fighting in Sudan was back to her own country, South Sudan, which she had left as civil war erupted in 2013 but when Sudan’s army started battling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the streets around …
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09-05-2023 AMMAN: A suspected drug smuggler and his family have been killed in an air raid in southern Syria, an attack attributed to Jordan, according to a war monitor. Amman did not immediately comment on Monday’s attack, which came days after Jordan warned it would use force within Syria to …
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08-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MALAPPURAM: Tragedy struck on Sunday in India’s Kerala state as a boat capsized in the Malappuram district, resulting in the devastating loss of life for a minimum of 16 individuals, as reported by V. Abdurahiman, the state’s minister for fisheries and harbour development. …
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08-05-2023 HOUSTON: Eight people have been killed in the US state of Texas after a car struck a group at a bus stop close to a shelter for the homeless and migrants. The incident happened in the city of Brownsville near the Mexican border at about 08:30 local time (14:30 …
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08-05-2023 TEHRAN: The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force successfully tested a homegrown rocket equipped with a thermobaric warhead. Experts at the Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization of the IRGC Ground Force have furnished the ‘Fajr-5’ rocket with a thermobaric warhead. Fajr-5 is a 333 mm rocket, whose guided version, …
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08-05-2023 LONDON: A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor have been jailed by a London court for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to the United Kingdom to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter. The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on …
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