29-08-2024 SINGAPORE: Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks, Black Axe. Operation Jackal III saw officers in body armor carry out raids in 21 countries between April and July 2024. The mission, coordinated by …
Read More »Tanker attacked by Houthis could be leaking oil: US
28-08-2024 WASHINGTON/ SANA’A/ DUBAI: An oil tanker which was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea last week is still on fire and may be leaking oil, the US Pentagon says. Attempts to salvage the Greek-owned and flagged MV Sounion have been thwarted by the Houthis, who have …
Read More »Iran’s Supreme Leader calls for regulation of cyberspace
28-08-2024 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has imposed some of the strictest controls on internet access in the world, said on Tuesday that cyberspace needed to be regulated, citing the arrest of messaging app Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France as an example of how other countries also …
Read More »Indian police fire tear gas, water cannon at protestors
28-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Police in India fired tear gas and water cannon on Tuesday (Jan 27) as they clashed with thousands of protesters seeking justice for a doctor who was raped and murdered in Kolkata this month. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body …
Read More »“Israel killed 40,000 people in Gaza”
28-08-2024 GAZA CITY: Israeli attacks have killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the 320 days since October 7. This includes almost 17,000 children. That’s 2.6 percent of all children in Gaza who are now dead. At least 53 children have been killed every day since October …
Read More »UN Chief warns; ‘surging seas are coming for us all’
28-08-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that big polluters have a clear responsibility to cut emissions or risk a worldwide catastrophe. “The Pacific is today the most vulnerable area of the world,” he told media at the Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga. “There …
Read More »Top-level meeting shows China & Xi still a priority for Biden
28-08-2024 VIENNA/ WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: Jake Sullivan has arrived on his first visit to China as US national security adviser. He will hold talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi as the two countries try to stabilize relations. Sullivan and Wang have met four times over 16 months in Vienna, Malta, Washington …
Read More »Gaza aid operation paused due to evacuation orders: UN
28-08-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: The United Nations says it has had to temporarily suspend its aid operation in the Gaza Strip because of Israeli military evacuation orders in the centre of the Palestinian territory. A senior UN official told reporters that its humanitarian staff had been unable to operate …
Read More »Macron rules out leftist PM as crisis continues
28-08-2024 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not agree to a government led by the left-wing New Popular Front alliance (NFP), which won the most seats in last month’s legislative election. Macron said France needed institutional stability and the left could not win a confidence vote in …
Read More »77 killed in multiple armed attacks in Pakistan
27-08-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ KARACHI: More than 77 people have been killed in four assaults amid several reported incidents of violence in Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan while over 30 militants have also been shot dead by Security Forces and almost 4 Pak …
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