International

11-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clash on key issues as they debate for the first time in the 2024 US presidential election. Both candidates have repeatedly called each other liars in the first half hour of the debate. The candidates started with the economy, Trump highlighting tariffs on …

11-09-2024 MOSCOW: Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow. Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it had …

11-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday he did not view this year’s two-month general elections as a free exercise, but rather as one structured to deliver an advantage to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, without citing evidence but Modi suffered a rare …

11-09-2024 LUXEMBOURG: Apple has been told to pay €13bn (£11bn; $14bn) in unpaid taxes to Ireland by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The European Commission accused Ireland of giving Apple illegal tax advantages eight years ago but the Irish government has consistently argued against the need for the tax …

11-09-2024 BEIJING:  row has erupted on Chinese social media over the use of air conditioners in classrooms as the country endures an unseasonal heatwave. Parents in some of China’s hottest cities have called on schools to install air conditioners as temperatures surpass 35C. The conversation heated up in the southern …

11-09-2024 BRUSSELS: Europe’s top court has ruled Google must pay a €2.4bn (£2bn) fine handed down for abusing the market dominance of its shopping comparison service. The tech giant had appealed against the fine, which was originally levied by the European Commission in 2017. It was at the time the …

11-09-2024 DILI, TIMOR-LESTE: Some 600,000 people have gathered in a field outside Timor-Leste’s capital Dili for one of the biggest masses of Pope Francis’s papacy. The open-air congregation represents nearly half the population of the small Southeast Asian country one of the most Roman Catholic places on Earth and the …

11-09-2024 DEIR AL-BALAH/ GAZA STRIP: An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza martyred at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted “significant” Hamas militants and disputed the death toll. It was among …

10-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s health ministry says it has recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus. The young male patient has been isolated in a hospital and is in stable condition, …

10-09-2024 KINSHASA: It has been a year since the first outbreak of a new more deadly variant of the mpox virus was first reported in central Africa. Since the start of the year, more than 20,000 cases and well over 500 deaths, most of them children, have been officially reported, …