31-08-2024 SANA’A/ DUBAI: Yemen’s Houthis have released a video that appears to show their fighters boarding the oil tanker Sounion and detonating explosives on the ship that the group previously attacked in the Red Sea earlier this month. The footage released on Thursday comes amid international fear of a major …
Read More »Russia lashes out against ‘terrorist’ incursion in Kursk
31-08-2024 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Ukraine’s deep strikes against Russian military targets and its three-week-old ground offensive inside Russian territory have appeared to be yielding military and political results during the past week. Russia was reported to be moving its aircraft back from airfields near the Ukrainian border while glide bomb attacks …
Read More »Waiting 32 years for justice in an Indian rape case
31-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: “My heart is filled with so much pain. Even today, I cry when I think about how that one encounter destroyed my life.” The year was 1992. Sushma* said she was 18 when a man she knew took her to an abandoned warehouse …
Read More »Israel agrees to pauses in fighting for polio vaccine drive
31-08-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel has agreed to a series of “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the Gaza strip and will begin on Sunday, senior WHO official …
Read More »Norway princess’s wedding begins after years of ‘turmoil’
31-08-2024 OSLO: Festivities have begun for the wedding of Norwegian Princess Martha Louise and her American partner, self-styled shaman Durek Verrett. Hundreds of guests are arriving in the town of Alesund, in western Norway, for a “meet and greet” in a historic hotel. On Friday, they will travel by sea …
Read More »‘Harris widens lead over Trump’
30-08-2024 WASHINGTON: Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump 45% to 41% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Thursday that showed the vice president sparking new enthusiasm among voters and shaking up the race ahead of the Nov. 5 election. The 4 percentage point advantage among registered voters was wider …
Read More »Sex abuse allegations rock Indian film industry
30-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Allegations. Resignations. Police complaints. These words have been dominating headlines and shaking up a bustling film industry in the southern Indian state of Kerala since last week. The state has been witnessing a flurry of sexual abuse allegations against some top male stars …
Read More »Hong Kong court finds Stand News editors guilty of sedition
30-08-2024 VICTORIA: A Hong Kong court has found two former chief editors of the now-defunct pro-democracy news outlet Stand News guilty of sedition in a landmark case that has taken place amid a security crackdown in the China-ruled city. District Court judge Kwok Wai-kin announced the verdict on Thursday, declaring …
Read More »EU’s top diplomat seeks sanctions against Israeli ministers
30-08-2024 BRUSSELS: The European Union’s foreign policy chief has urged the bloc’s 27 member states to impose sanctions against some Israeli ministers for their “hate messages” against Palestinians. Josep Borrell, speaking before the EU’s foreign and defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Thursday, said Israeli ministers had made statements that …
Read More »India approves $8.5b Reliance-Disney entertainment mega-merger
30-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A $8.5bn (£6.43bn) merger between Disney and Reliance Industries has been provisionally approved by the India’s competition watchdog. The venture, in which billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries will have majority stake, will create India’s biggest entertainment player which will compete with Sony, Netflix …
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