ISLAMABAD: A new Unesco report has revealed that the misuse of financial crimes to target and silence independent media and journalists is on the rise globally. The report, titled ‘The Misuse of Financial Laws to Pressure, Silence and Intimidate Journalists and Media Outlets’, says financial crimes prove effective in silencing media and journalists as they […]
Iran said an Israeli attack targeted military sites in the Islamic republic on Saturday, killing two soldiers, almost a month after Israel vowed to avenge a missile barrage that raised fears of a full-scale Middle East war. The Israeli military said its retaliatory air strikes hit Iran’s missile manufacturing facilities, missile installations and other systems […]
TYRE: Israeli strikes on Wednesday pounded Lebanon’s Tyre, an ancient coastal city which boasts a Unesco World Heritage site, leaving swathes of its centre in ruins. The raids, among the worst since the start of the Israel-Hezbollah war last month, hit the “heart of Tyre”, said Rana, a resident who asked to only use her […]
CANBERRA: King Charles was accused of “genocide” by an Indigenous senator at Australia’s Parliament House on Monday, moments after he delivered a speech in which he paid his “respects to the traditional owners of the lands”. Charles, on his 16th official visit to Australia and his first major foreign trip since being diagnosed with cancer, […]
Israel’s government said a drone was launched toward the the prime minister’s house Saturday, with no casualties. Sirens wailed Saturday morning in Israel, warning of incoming fire from Lebanon, with a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea, the Israeli government said. Neither he nor his wife were home and there […]
BERLIN: US President Joe Biden said on Friday that there was no consensus for giving Ukraine long-range weapons that President Volodymyr Zelensky has been requesting Western nations for months to conduct deeper strikes into Russia. “Right now, there’s no consensus for long-range weapons,” Biden told reporters in Berlin . At the same time, he urged […]
MAJIYA: An explosion tore through crowds of people who had rushed to collect fuel spilling from a crashed tanker in northern Nigeria, killing at least 147, officials said on Wednesday. The tragedy is the latest such accident at a time when petrol has become a precious commodity in the country, which is suffering its worst […]
WASHINGTON: The United States has warned Israel that it must take steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on military aid, in the strongest such warning since Israeli operations against Hamas began a year ago. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to Israeli officials on […]
Thousands of US and Filipino marines launched 10 days of joint exercises in the northern and western Philippines on Tuesday, a day after China held huge drills around Taiwan. The annual Kamandag, or Venom, exercises are focussed on defending the north coast of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon, which lies about 800 kilometres from […]
ROME: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday called on the international community to stop selling weapons to Israel, after a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican. “I do believe that it is urgent that, in light of everything that is happening in the Middle East, the international community stops exporting weapons to the […]