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08-10-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KARACHI: Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan. A third body, not yet officially identified, is thought to be that of the attacker, the BBC understands. The Chinese embassy …

08-10-2024 WELLINGTON: The Royal New Zealand Navy has lost its first ship to the sea since World War Two, after one of its vessels ran aground off the coast of Samoa. HMNZS Manawanui, a specialist diving and ocean imaging ship, came into trouble about one nautical mile from the island …

08-10-2024 GAZA STRIP/ JERUSALEM: A year on from Hamas’s 7 October attacks, Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah all launch assaults. Israel carried out air strikes on Lebanon, saying it hit Hezbollah targets, and Gaza, where it targeted Hamas. From Gaza, Hamas fired rockets at Israel, with two people wounded near Tel …

07-10-2024 GAZA STRIP: It has been one year of what UN experts have called Israel’s genocide in Gaza: 365 days of unrelenting Israeli bombardment, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. This has been a war of many firsts, breaking records in scale and brutality. Marking …

07-10-2024 BEIRUT: Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, eyewitnesses said, sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometers away. The strikes came after days of bombing by Israel of Beirut suburbs considered …

07-10-2024 BUDAPEST: Thousands of Hungarians gathered outside the headquarters of the country’s state television on Saturday, protesting against what they described as the government’s “propaganda machine” and calling for an independent public service media. The protestors, from the opposition TISZA party, say that the state broadcaster MTVA is running biased …

07-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: India’s ruling party is projected to have lost two key provincial elections to the main opposition Congress party and its allies, exit polls showed, suggesting another setback after the party fared poorly in national elections. Local media reported that Congress had a …

07-10-2024 TAIPEI: It is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become Taiwan’s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island’s President Lai Ching-te said on Saturday. Lai, who took office in May, is condemned by Beijing as a “separatist”. He rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, saying that the …

07-10-2024 NAYPYIDAW: Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State, killing his son. “It felt like a nightmare. I still struggle to find the words to describe it,” said U Khup Thang, an ethnic Chin farmer and laborer. Like others …

07-10-2024 BRASILIA: The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has attempted to pay fines owed to the Brazilian government in a bid to resume services in the country but the media reported on Friday that Brazil’s Supreme Court has yet to lift the site’s suspension, saying the fees …