09-09-2025 WASHINGTON: Tensions between President Trump and Illinois leaders escalated on Saturday when the White House posted an image on social media depicting Trump with helicopters, billowing flames and the Chicago skyline. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” read the post, titled “Chipocalypse Now,” …
Read More »Irfaan Ali reelected as oil rich Guyana’s President
09-09-2025 GEORGETOWN: Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali has been reelected for a second term, according to the country’s electoral body, after a vote that gave his party a mandate to manage the South American nation’s newfound oil riches amid a territorial dispute with Venezuela. The elections commission said in a statement …
Read More »Mass arrests at Palestine Action rally outside UK Parliament
09-09-2025 LONDON: London police have arrested more than 425 protesters during violent clashes at a rally calling on the United Kingdom’s government to lift a ban on the Palestine Action group. Defend Our Juries, the campaign group that organized the rally on Saturday, said about 1,500 people participated in the …
Read More »14 dead after protests against Nepal social media ban
08-09-2025 KATHMANDU: At least 14 people have been killed and dozens injured in Nepal after demonstrations against a government social media ban led to clashes between protesters and security forces. Thousands heeded a call by demonstrators describing themselves as Generation Z to gather near the parliament building in Kathmandu over …
Read More »India & Russia appear ‘lost’ to ‘darkest China’: Trump
08-09-2025 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Russia seem to have been “lost” to China after their leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expressing his annoyance at New Delhi and Moscow as Beijing pushes a new world order. “Looks like we’ve lost India …
Read More »Sudan paramilitaries accused of crimes against humanity
08-09-2025 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, UN investigators say. The report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission accuses the group of “murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and …
Read More »Google fined €2.95bn for abusing advertising dominance
08-09-2025 BRUSSELS: Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector, the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favoring its own …
Read More »Hamas releases video of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza
08-09-2025 GAZA STRIP: Hamas has released a video showing two Israeli hostages seized from a music festival during its cross-border attack in October 2023. The video claims to show Guy Gilboa-Dalal in Gaza City in late August, where he says he and eight others are being held and will remain …
Read More »US weighs strikes on cartels in Venezuela
08-09-2025 WASHINGTON/ CARACAS: United States President Donald Trump had ordered the deployment of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Puerto Rico amid a report he is weighing options for strikes targeting drug cartels operating inside Venezuela, according to news organizations. Sources in the US told news agencies on Friday that 10 …
Read More »Sudanese civilians face death if they try to escape
08-09-2025 KHARTOUM: In January 2024, Ahmed Abubakr Imam picked up a rifle to defend his community. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had just captured four of the five provinces in Sudan’s sprawling western region of Darfur, South, East, Central and West, in a lightning attack as it advanced in …
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