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08-06-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats both invited the prime minister …

08-06-2024 KHARTOUM: At least 150 people, including 35 children, are feared dead in a massacre in a village in central Sudan blamed on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group fighting the army. The rivals have been battling over control of the country for more than 13 months. The …

08-06-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: The US has told Israel it must be fully “transparent” over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told media a warplane had fired two missiles at classrooms …

08-06-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ HYDERABAD: Regional parties in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance demanded on Thursday more funds for their states and federal cabinet positions as negotiations began on forming a new coalition government, alliance leaders and sources said. Modi was named leader of the National …

08-06-2024 JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s African National Congress will invite other political parties to form a national unity government, its leader President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, after it lost its majority for the first time in the democratic era. The former liberation movement once led by Nelson Mandela has run …

08-06-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Russia and China, which hold veto powers in the UN Security Council, raised concerns on Thursday with a US draft resolution that would back a proposal outlined by President Joe Biden for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas. The council’s only Arab member, Algeria, …

07-06-2024 WASHINGTON: The American Boeing company has launched its Starliner capsule towards the International Space Station (ISS) with two NASA astronauts aboard. It’s the first time the vehicle has been entrusted to carry people after coming through a long and tortuous development program. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be …

07-06-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ TEHRAN: The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has passed a resolution calling on Iran to urgently cooperate and reverse its decision to bar some of its inspectors. There are concerns Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, an accusation Tehran denies. The …

07-06-2024 Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow could arm countries with a view to attacking Western targets. Putin made the statement while criticizing the West’s delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine. Several countries including the United States have given Ukraine the green light to strike targets inside Russia. …

07-06-2024 BEIJING: A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself. A hiker posted a video that showed the flow of water from Yuntai Mountain Waterfall billed as China’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall was coming from a …