MAJDAL SHAMS: While Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday vowed to “hit the enemy hard”, raising fears that the Gaza conflict will spread after a rocket attack on Golan Heights, the European Union as well as Lebanon called for an independent probe into what happened. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Western powers, including […]
More than 500 people, including some opposition leaders, have been arrested in Dhaka over violence that has wracked Bangladesh and killed 163 people since students started protesting against civil service hiring rules, police said on Monday. What began as demonstrations against politicised admission quotas for sought-after government jobs has snowballed into some of the worst […]
Bangladeshi Prime Minister vowed Wednesday to punish those responsible for killing six people in ongoing student protests over civil service hiring rules, hours after police forcibly dispersed a funeral ceremony to mourn the dead. Six people were killed Tuesday in clashes around the country as rival student groups attacked each other with hurled bricks and […]
• Tanks unleashed on buildings in Rafah • France, Germany demand probe into attacks on schools • Latest fighting has displaced 350,000 civilians GAZA STRIP: Israel’s army dropped thousands of leaflets over war-torn Gaza City on Wednesday, urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive through the main city of the besieged Palestinian territory. The […]
Russia fired dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in a massive barrage that killed at least 24 people and smashed into a children’s hospital in Kyiv, trapping victims under the rubble, officials said. Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers were digging through the debris of a part of Okhmatdyt paediatric hospital […]
JERUSALEM: Israel has approved its biggest land seizure in the occupied West Bank in more than three decades, a move criticised by activists on Wednesday as detrimental to Palestinian peace hopes. The 12.7-square-kilometre of land in the Jordan Valley was officially declared “state property” in June, according to an official declaration revealed by the Peace […]
The US Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for official actions taken as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognising for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution. The justices, in a 6-3 ruling written by Chief Justice John Roberts, threw out a […]
GAZA STRIP: Heavy battles and bombardment hit Gaza City’s Shujaiya district for a fourth day on Sunday, months after Israel declared Hamas’s command structure dismantled in the northern area. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled the devastated neighbourhood, where the army said it has fought Palestinian fighters both “above and below ground” in tunnels. […]
Kenya was in a state of shock on Wednesday following unprecedented scenes that left parts of parliament ablaze and gutted, as protests over proposed tax hikes turned deadly, prompting President William Ruto’s government to deploy the military. “Deaths, mayhem”, read the front-page headline on The Standard newspaper, while The Daily Nation described the situation as […]
Twenty-two people were killed — including 18 Chinese nationals — in a massive fire at a South Korean lithium battery factory, the fire department said Monday, one of the country’s worst factory disasters in years. Over 100 people were working in the factory when workers heard a series of explosions from the second floor, where […]