29-07-2024 BERLIN: Germany on Wednesday banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre, an association that has been under investigation for several months over its alleged support for Hezbollah and its links to Iran. Tehran reacted in fury, summoning Germany’s ambassador to Iran to condemn a “hostile action” it branded as a “clear …
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29-07-2024 GAZA CITY: More than 50 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in central and southern Gaza, with one air raid hitting a school where thousands of displaced people were sheltering, according to Palestinian officials. At least 30 people were killed in an Israeli attack on Khadija School in …
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29-07-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Vice President Kamala Harris cast herself as the “underdog” in the presidential race and called her Republican opponent Donald Trump “just plain weird,” while Trump painted Harris as “evil,” “sick” and “unhinged” as the rivals exchanged barbs from afar yesterday. The dueling appearances capped a whirlwind …
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29-07-2024 EDMONTON: The fierce wildfire which swept through the Canadian town of Jasper in recent days melted cars to the road and turned homes to ash. The first images of the devastation at the famous tourist town have emerged, after a 100m (328ft) firewall swept through late on Wednesday. It …
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29-07-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Twelve children and young adults have been killed and dozens injured after a rocket hit a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israeli authorities say. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a rocket fired by the powerful Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fell on the Druze …
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29-07-2024 LOS ANGELES: An enormous wildfire has grown by 8 sq miles an hour (20 sq km) as it spreads across parts of northern California. The Park fire, which started on Wednesday in a suspected arson attack, has burned more than 348,000 acres of land north-east of Chico, and was …
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28-07-2024 LONDON: Britain’s new government said; it was dropping its predecessor’s query of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC’s chief prosecutor has requested warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, on suspicion of war crimes, …
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28-07-2024 ABUJA: Nigerian courts convicted 125 Boko Haram Islamist militants and financiers of a series of terrorism-related offences in a mass trial this week, the attorney-general’s office said. A Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands of people and displaced millions since it began in 2009, creating a humanitarian crisis in …
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28-07-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India will make a decision on sugar industry calls for a hike in the minimum selling price (MSP) in the coming days, a senior government official said on Saturday, adding that ethanol policies would be set before the start of the next …
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28-07-2024 PARIS: Three out of 10 French high-speed trains will be cancelled on Saturday on routes hit by a series of “coordinated” arson attacks. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said security forces continued to search for the “saboteurs” responsible after rail networks were paralyzed ahead of the opening of the …
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