31-07-2024 CARACAS: Security forces in Venezuela have fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people protesting over Sunday’s disputed election result. Thousands of people descended on central Caracas on Monday evening, some walking for miles from slums on the mountains surrounding the city, towards the presidential palace. Protests erupted in …
Read More »US discusses with India need for peace in Ukraine
30-07-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday emphasized the importance of a “just and enduring peace” for Ukraine in a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the State Department said, opens new tab. The discussion came amid a visit being reportedly planned to Ukraine …
Read More »Kamala Harris campaign raises $200 million in a week
30-07-2024 WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris’s election campaign said on Sunday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, as Republicans continued to hammer Harris over her work as vice president. President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid …
Read More »Camera operators instructed to avoid ‘sexist’ filming in Olympics
30-07-2024 PARIS: The official Nike kits for American women competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics have been slammed as “a costume born of patriarchal forces” by one track athlete and “treating women as second-class citizens” by a commentator on Nike’s Instagram page because of the skimpy nature of the swimming …
Read More »Trapped in Myanmar’s cyber-scam factories
30-07-2024 NAYPYIDAW: In October of 2021, La Awng travelled from his native Kachin State in Myanmar to Laukkai, the capital of the country’s autonomous Kokang region near the border with China, planning to work in a casino. Instead, he was trafficked into a cyber-scamming business run by Chinese criminal networks. …
Read More »Lebanon fears dangerous phase in Hezbollah-Israel fighting
30-07-2024 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Since October, the near-daily cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed militia and political movement in Lebanon, have killed hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands from their homes on both sides, raising fears that the relatively contained violence could escalate into an all-out …
Read More »Italy PM Meloni vows to ‘relaunch’ ties with China
30-07-2024 ROME: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said China is an “important interlocutor” in managing global tensions, as she met President Xi Jinping in Beijing. President Xi in turn hailed the “long-established friendly” ties, as well as “tolerance, mutual trust and mutual respect” between Beijing and Rome. During her …
Read More »Venezuela’s Maduro declared winner in disputed vote
30-07-2024 CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro has won Venezuela’s presidential election, according to partial results announced by the electoral council. The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso – who is a close ally of Maduro said that with 80% of ballots counted, President Maduro had 51% of the …
Read More »Israeli ministers authorize Netanyahu against Hezbollah
30-07-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel’s security cabinet has authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister to decide when and how to retaliate for a deadly rocket attack Israel and the US say was carried out by the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah. Ministers met in emergency session in the …
Read More »India links of US election contenders may spell little fizz for ties
29-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ CHENNAI: The Indian links of some US presidential election contenders probably mean little additional benefit for ties, experts said, against the backdrop of bipartisan support for closer relations with the South Asian nation to counter an assertive China. Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris …
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