30-08-2024 CARSON CITY: A former Nevada politician has been found guilty of first degree murder for the death of a journalist who wrote critical stories about his time in office. Robert Telles, 47, has been held in jail without bail since 2022 for the stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative …
Read More »UN calls for de-escalation as Israeli West Bank raids continue
30-08-2023 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: Five more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in a second day of raids in the occupied West Bank, with the UN calling for de-escalation. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were “five terrorists who had hidden inside a mosque” in Tulkarm, near the boundary …
Read More »Protesters block train tracks, buses in eastern India
29-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Thousands of protesters blocked train tracks, halted buses and shouted slogans in India’s state of West Bengal on Wednesday in the latest demonstration following the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which …
Read More »Dozens missing in Yemen floods, risk of cholera outbreak rises
29-08-2024 SANA’A: At least 24 people are missing as Yemen has been lashed by torrential rains that triggered floods, exacerbating the spread of waterborne diseases, the authorities said. The floods hit al-Mahwit, a province west of the capital, Sanaa, controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthi group, with landslides destroying seven homes …
Read More »Japan issues warning as Typhoon Shanshan approaches
29-08-2024 TOKYO: Japan has issued an emergency warning as a powerful typhoon approaches its southwest, prompting carmaker Toyota to shutter factories and airlines to cancel flights. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Wednesday estimated that Typhoon Shanshan was situated 70km (43 miles) from Yakushima Island at 2pm (05:00 GMT), heading …
Read More »Bangladesh floods strand 1.24 million families
29-08-2024 DHAKA: Ekramul Haque was stunned when his uncle called him late in the afternoon of August 21 to inform him that floodwaters had inundated their ancestral home in southeastern Bangladesh’s Feni district, close to the Indian border. At the time, Haque was about 10km (6 miles) away in the …
Read More »SpaceX delays first private spacewalk mission
29-08-2024 NEW YORK: SpaceX has postponed its attempt to launch an expedition featuring an all-civilian crew that is aiming to carry out the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens. The mission, known as Polaris Dawn, had been scheduled to take off from NASA’s space centre in Florida early on Wednesday morning. …
Read More »Israeli military launches major West Bank operation
29-08-2024 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: At least nine Palestinians have been killed in a major operation by Israeli forces in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Israeli security forces said they had begun “a counterterrorism operation” in Jenin and Tulkarm overnight and they had so …
Read More »Mpox jabs arrive on African soil after red-tape delays
29-08-2024 ABUJA: Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of a vaccine to combat mpox, making it the first African country to receive a batch amid the current outbreak of disease that used to be called monkeypox. The country began the process to secure the vaccines well before it was declared a …
Read More »New indictment for Trump over 2020 US election
29-08-2024 WASHINGTON: US Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against former president Donald Trump for his alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election following his loss to Joe Biden. The new charging document tailors the allegations against Trump to the recent US Supreme Court …
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