International

01-08-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah has confirmed one of its senior military commanders was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Late on Wednesday, the Iran-backed group said Fuad Shukr’s body had been found in the rubble of a building that was hit on Tuesday. Four other …

01-08-2024 TEHRAN: Iran has threatened “harsh punishment” for Israel, which it says was responsible for assassinating Hamas’s leader on Wednesday. Israel has not commented directly on the strike which killed Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran early on Wednesday. However, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country had delivered “crushing blows” …

01-08-2024 MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: At least 973 Indigenous children died while attending boarding schools run or supported by the United States government, a federal report has found, prompting calls for an apology for the pain suffered at the abuse-riddled institutions. The report, released on Tuesday and commissioned by US Secretary of …

01-08-2024 WASHINGTON: United States Vice President Kamala Harris has erased former President Donald Trump’s lead in the race for the White House, with the Democratic and Republican standard-bearers now locked in a dead heat, and newly released polling shows. Harris has closed the gap with Trump both nationwide and in …

01-08-2024 NEW DELHI/ WAYANAD: At least 123 people have been killed and dozens are still feared trapped after heavy rains triggered massive landslides in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The landslides struck hilly areas in Wayanad district in the early hours of Tuesday when most residents were asleep. Rescue …

01-08-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel says it has killed a top Hezbollah commander after carrying out a strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least one person was killed and a number of others wounded in the explosion in Dahiyeh, a stronghold of the Lebanese armed group. …

01-08-2024 BERLIN: The authoritarian leader of Belarus has pardoned a German citizen who had been sentenced to death. Rico Kroeger was arrested in October and had been accused of acting as a mercenary and of planting explosives but news of his death sentence only became widely known last week. Today’s …

01-08-2024 GAZA CITY: Injured and critically ill Palestinians are on their way from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates for treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, in the largest single medical evacuation since the war began following the brutal Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October. Later on …

01-08-2024 LONDON/ NEW YORK:  The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been”, according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudhry. The Islamist preacher from east London is starting a life sentence for …

31-07-2024 TEHRAN: Hamas says its political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in an Israeli attack in the Iranian capital. According to Iranian media, an air strike hit a building for war veterans in Tehran where Haniyeh was staying at around 02:00 (22:30 GMT). Haniyeh, 62, was widely considered Hamas’s …