10-10-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel’s prime minister has made a direct appeal to urge the Lebanese people to throw out Hezbollah and avoid “destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza”. Benjamin Netanyahu’s appeal on Tuesday came as Israel expanded its ground invasion against Hezbollah by sending thousands more troops into …
Read More »Sudan’s warring sides target local aid volunteers fighting famine
09-10-2024 KHARTOUM/ CAIRO/ DUBAI: Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan’s most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides are making it difficult to provide life-saving aid amid the world’s biggest hunger crisis. Many volunteers have fled under threat of arrest or …
Read More »Dozens more children & women martyred in Gaza
09-10-2024 GAZA STRIP: At least 45 Palestinians including five children and two women are martyred in Israeli air strikes on central Gaza as soldiers “systematically work to empty” the war-battered north. Israel expands attacks on southern Lebanon and hammers Beirut’s southern suburbs as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launches a …
Read More »Hurricane Milton delays Biden-taoiseach reception
09-10-2024 NEW YORK/ TALLAHASSEE: The US President has delayed a reception with the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) in Washington DC on Wednesday due to Hurricane Milton. The storm is expected to reach Florida around the time a reception was scheduled to mark the centenary of diplomatic relations between Ireland and …
Read More »Modi’s BJP ahead in Haryana election but trails in Kashmir
09-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is leading in the northern state of Haryana but is set to fall short in Indian-administered Kashmir as votes continue to be counted in two major elections. An opposition alliance formed by the Congress and regional party National …
Read More »Lebanon abandoned by international community: Ex PM
09-10-2024 BEIRUT: Lebanon’s prime minister at the time of its last war with Israel in 2006 has told media his country has been abandoned by the international community. Fouad Siniora said it was unacceptable to leave Lebanon to fall, and there was a lack of initiative when it came to …
Read More »N Korea’s Kim calls Putin ‘closest comrade’
09-10-2024 PYONGYANG/ MOSCOW: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a birthday message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him his “closest comrade”. Kim, congratulating Putin on his 72nd birthday, added that relations between both countries would be raised to a new level. Relations between Pyongyang and Moscow have …
Read More »US judge orders Google to open app store to rivals
09-10-2024 NEW YORK: A US federal judge has ruled that Google must allow Android apps made by rival technology firms onto its Google Play app store for three years starting next month. The change was among several remedies ordered by Judge James Donato in a case brought against Google by …
Read More »Interpol asks public to help crack murdered women cold cases
09-10-2024 SINGAPORE CITY: A pair of red shoes, two beaded necklaces and a British 10p coin are among the few clues that could help to identify a teenage girl found murdered in western France more than 40 years ago. Her death is one of 46 cold cases European police are …
Read More »Pakistan bans prominent PTM citing security concerns
08-10-2024 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has banned the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), or Pashtun Protection Movement, a prominent rights group, listing it as a “proscribed organization”. A notification issued by the federal government on Sunday said the PTM was “engaged in certain activities which are prejudicial to the peace and …
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