• 76 killed in 24 hours; death toll rises to nearly 32,500 • Gazans decry Tel Aviv’s disdain for UNSC ceasefire resolution • US, UK sanction Gaza Now channel GAZA STRIP: Israel bombed at least four homes in Rafah on Wednesday, raising fresh fears among the more than a million Palestinians sheltering in the last […]
The United States, Britain and New Zealand have accused Beijing-backed cyber groups of being behind a series of attacks against lawmakers and key democratic institutions — allegations that were denied by China. In rare and detailed public accusations against China — Washington, London and Wellington described a series of cyber breaches over the last decade […]
• Demands complete evacuation of staff and patients • UN chief says relief requires Israel to remove obstacles CAIRO: Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals on Sunday, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, and Israel said it had captured 480 fighters in continued clashes at Gaza’s main Al […]
Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire at concertgoers with automatic weapons on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 more in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” was to perform to […]
• Blinken urges ‘immediate’ ceasefire in Gaza • US lawmakers move to bar funds for UNRWA TULKAREM: As the US top diplomat on Thursday called for an “immediate ceasefire” in war-torn Gaza, an Israeli air strike and gunfire have killed four Palestinians at the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian […]
The United Kingdom and Australia inked a new defence agreement in Canberra on Thursday, as they try to boost a fledgling nuclear-powered submarine programme with the United States. UK defence minister Grant Shapps signed the agreement in Canberra with his counterpart Richard Marles, establishing a legal framework that makes it easier to host troops and […]
CAIRO: Armed and masked men from an array of clans and factions have started providing security to aid convoys in Gaza, Palestinian officials and sources in the Hamas group say. Video footage obtained by Reuters showed a convoy of trucks entering Gaza City with foreign aid overnight, watched by several men armed with AK-47 assault rifles and […]
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose Liberals are trailing badly in the polls, said on Friday he thought about quitting his “crazy job” every day, but insisted he would stay in office until the next election. That vote must be held by October next year and recent surveys of public opinion show the Liberals […]
WASHINGTON: The judge in Donald Trump’s Georgia election subversion trial on Wednesday dismissed three criminal counts against the former US president and three others against co-defendants, a court filing showed on Wednesday, while letting the overall case proceed. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee decided that allegations by state prosecutors that Trump and his co-defendants tried […]
Donald Trump has pledged to free people jailed for taking part in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol as one of his first actions if reelected, calling them “hostages.” The rioters — egged on by the then-president and fuelled by his false claims of voter fraud — stormed the seat of US democracy on […]