10-09-2024 NEW YORK: The US government is taking aim at the engine of Google’s immense wealth its extremely lucrative ad tech business. A trial beginning on Monday will hear the Department of Justice’s case that the search engine’s parent company Alphabet illegally operates a monopoly in the market. The company …
Read More »Thousands protest in Pakistan to demand ex-PM Imran’s release
09-09-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD: Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Pakistani capital, demanding the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been behind bars for more than a year on what his party calls are politically motivated charges. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf …
Read More »Israel kills 31 in Gaza as 750,000 Israelis join mass protests
09-09-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: At least 31 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Saturday, according to medical sources. An estimated 750,000 Israelis have taken to the streets in one of Israel’s biggest-ever protests as anger boils over at the government’s failure to bring those held captive home. …
Read More »World order ‘under threat not seen since Cold War’
09-09-2024 WASHINGTON/ LONDON: The international world order is “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War”, the heads of the UK and US foreign intelligence services have warned. The chiefs of MI6 and the CIA also said both countries stand together in “resisting an assertive Russia …
Read More »Indian Olympic wrestlers join opposition Congress
09-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Olympic wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joined the opposition Congress party on Friday, entering politics a year after protesting against the chief of the sport’s governing body in India over alleged sexual harassment. The move came weeks after Phogat’s emotional return …
Read More »Thousands protest in France over Macron’s choice of PM
09-09-2024 PARIS: More than 100,000 people protested across France on Saturday against the appointment of the centre-right politician Michel Barnier as the new prime minister. His appointment follows an inconclusive election in which the left-wing bloc, the New Popular Front (NPF) won the largest number of seats. The protests were …
Read More »Rise of far right in Germany’s east isn’t over yet
09-09-2024 BERLIN: “If the old parties had done their jobs properly then the AfD would not exist,” Ingolf complains, echoing a common sense that the rest of Germany looks down on so-called “Ossis” in the east. Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) have already won the most votes in regional elections …
Read More »Police launch manhunt after multiple people shot in US
09-09-2024 CITY OF LONDON, KENTUCKY: A manhunt is underway in Kentucky after a number of people were shot along a highway near the city of London on Saturday. The incident began at about 18:00 local time when police responded to a report of vehicles being fired upon near Interstate 75. …
Read More »Venezuela opposition candidate leaves country
09-09-2024 The Venezuelan government has said opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has left the country, seeking asylum in Spain. Gonzalez has been in hiding, and a warrant issued for his arrest after the opposition disputed July’s presidential election result in which the government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Nicolas Maduro …
Read More »Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China
08-09-2024 HANOI/ HAIPHONG/ BEIJING: Super Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, after tearing through China’s southern island of Hainan where it reportedly killed two people and injured dozens. Yagi, the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024, …
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