18-10-2023 LONDON: Pro-Khalistan advocacy group, Sikh for Justice (SFJ), has announced a $21,000 donation to aid those who have been affected by the Israeli bombing in Gaza. The donation has been sent to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees by the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara …
Read More »Hamas hints at using kidnapped Israelis as bargaining chips
18-10-2023 GAZA: Hamas, the Palestinian resistance group, has indicated its readiness to use Israeli captives, kidnapped during an attack on southern Israeli areas, as leverage to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Hamas, which has long demanded the release of around 6,000 Palestinians detained in Israeli …
Read More »Men jailed for India ‘house of horrors’ murders freed
17-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ALLAHABAD: A court in India has acquitted two men who spent years on death row for the rape and murder of 19 women and children in 2005. Surinder Koli and his businessman employer Moninder Singh Pandher were convicted in 2009 in a gruesome …
Read More »No interest in war with Hezbollah: Israel
17-10-2023 JERUSALEM: Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has said that Israel has “no interest in war” on its northern front and will prefer to maintain the current situation along the border with Lebanon. This statement comes on Sunday in response to recent sporadic cross-border incidents between Israel and Lebanon, raising …
Read More »Palestinian-American boy killed in Islamophobic attack in US
17-10-2023 SPRINGFIELD: An innocent Palestinian-American boy was killed and his mother was injured after they were stabbed by their landlord in the state of Illinois on Saturday morning because they were Muslims. The 71-year-old man named Joseph Czuba has been charged with murder and hate crimes after allegedly stabbing a …
Read More »‘Hamas not fighting for Palestine cause’: Joe Biden
17-10-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, in a telephone conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, insisted that Hamas is not fighting for the Palestinian cause, saying that the US is working with regional partners to resolve the Israel-Hamas conflict. The telephonic talks came as Israel’s brutality continues in …
Read More »Russia stops US drone from violating airspace over Black Sea
17-10-2023 MOSCOW: Russian media reported that the Su-27 fighter jet thwarted an attempt by a US RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance drone to breach Moscow’s airspace Sunday, forcing Washington’s plane to “turn away”. According to TASS report, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated: “Airspace surveillance equipment detected an air target approaching …
Read More »UN calls for ‘immediate unconditional’ access to Gaza
17-10-2023 JERUSALEM/ GAZA: Israel and Hamas officials denied the reports that a ceasefire had been implemented in southern Gaza to allow foreigners out of the besieged Palestinian enclave and aid to be brought in amid a deepening crisis. Security sources in Egypt said a deal had been reached to open …
Read More »Scientists unveil a sprawling burial site in India
16-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Scientists have unveiled a sprawling burial site in India belonging to one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. Soutik Biswas delves into the clues the graves might give us about how the early Indians lived and died. In 2019, as scientists embarked on …
Read More »Hurt ripples in wake of Indigenous Voice vote
16-10-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies SYDNEY: Nigel Browne woke up on Sunday questioning his place in Australia – a painfully ironic fate for one of its First Peoples. The oldest living culture on earth, they have inhabited the country for at least 65,000 years. The day before, Australians rejected a …
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