16-05-2024 BRATISLAVA: Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been injured in a shooting and taken to hospital, the country’s deputy speaker confirmed during a session of parliament. The incident occurred after a Slovakian government meeting at a location outside Bratislava, the news agency TASR reported on Wednesday. Reports on …
Read More »‘US plans to send $1bn in new military aid to Israel’
16-05-2024 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: The Biden administration has told Congress that it plans to send a $1bn package of military aid to Israel, according to media reports, despite the United States’s opposition to a full-scale invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza and concerns about rising civilian deaths. The US Department of …
Read More »India’s top court bails journalist held in Chinese funding case
16-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court says the arrest of NewsClick website’s Founder and Editor Prabir Purkayastha last year under a stringent antiterrorism law was illegal and has ordered his release on bail. Purkayastha was arrested in October, nearly two months after a New York Times …
Read More »Gaza lost much more than a hospital when it lost al-Shifa
16-05-2024 GAZA CITY: Last month, the Israeli military finally withdrew from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind nothing but apocalyptic scenes of death and destruction. Grounds were littered with dead bodies. Most buildings were burned and reduced to empty shells What Gaza lost in al-Shifa was much …
Read More »‘Unprecedented’ hunt for escaped French prisoner
16-05-2024 PARIS: An “unprecedented” manhunt is taking place in northern France for a prisoner who escaped during a deadly ambush. Mohamed Amra, known as “The Fly”, was being taken back to jail from a court in Normandy on Tuesday when a car rammed his prison van at a toll booth. …
Read More »Stella Assange vows to fight on ahead of crucial court date
15-05-2024 LONDON: In a week’s time, WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange could be on a flight to the United States at the end of his years-long legal battle to avoid extradition. Whatever happens, his wife Stella vows the fight for his freedom will go on? At a hearing at London’s High …
Read More »India April wholesale prices rise at fastest pace in a year
15-05-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price-based inflation (INWPI=ECI), opens new tab rose 1.26% in April, the highest pace in a year, mainly driven by food and primary articles, government data showed on Tuesday. The April figures were higher than the 1% rise expected by economists polled …
Read More »Violent protests erupt in French Pacific territory
15-05-2024 PARIS: Violence has erupted in New Caledonia, a French overseas territory in the South Pacific, after lawmakers in Paris discussed a draft constitutional amendment to allow recent arrivals to the territory to vote in provincial elections. The bill, which some local leaders fear will dilute the vote of indigenous …
Read More »Gazans flee as Israeli forces go back into Jabalia
15-05-2024 JABALIA/ GAZA CITY: Fierce fighting has been reported in Jabalia in northern Gaza, after the Israeli military went back into areas where it said Hamas had regrouped. Residents who fled said they had seen tanks advancing towards Jabalia’s refugee camp, which has come under heavy bombardment since Saturday. Palestinian …
Read More »Baltimore Bridge blown up in controlled demolition
15-05-2024 BALTIMORE: Part of a collapsed bridge in Baltimore has been deliberately destroyed, clearing the way for the eventual full return of shipping through one of the busiest sea routes in the US. A ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge on 26 March, causing it to collapse and killing …
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