- Middle East
Families in Gaza take refuge in cemeteries amid war devastation
Khan Younis: Skeletons are neighbours for some Palestinians in Gaza who found nowhere but cemeteries to shelter from the war. Gravestones have become seats and tables for families like that of Maisa…
- Middle East
Israel says Red Cross receives remains of 3 hostages from Gaza
Jerusalem: Israel said the Red Cross has received the remains of three hostages in Gaza and they will be handed over to Israel’s military. A Hamas statement earlier said the remains were…
- World
Powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shakes northern Afghanistan
Kabul: A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has shaken northern Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage. The quake’s epicentre was located 22 km west-southwest of Khulm,…
- World
Trump claims Xi assured him China won’t act against Taiwan while he’s president
West Palm Beach: President Donald Trump says that Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him assurances that Beijing would take no action toward its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with mainland China…
- Technology
Space industry congratulates ISRO on successful launch of CMS-03 satellite
New Delhi: Industry bodies on Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the launch of CMS-03, the heaviest satellite to lift-off from Indian soil. At 4410 kg, the CMS-03, a…
- Middle East
Lebanon’s president calls for negotiations to end continued Israeli strikes
Beirut: Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said Friday that any negotiations with Israel to halt its ongoing strikes on southern Lebanon — which have continued despite a nearly year-old US-brokered ceasefire — must…
- World
Russia blasts Ukraine’s power grid again, causing outages across country and killing 6
Kyiv: The latest in a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure brought power outages and restrictions in all the country’s regions Thursday, officials said, with…
- Middle East
Palestinian hand over 2 coffins of dead hostages to Red Cross in Gaza
Jerusalem: Israel’s military said Thursday that Palestinian militants handed over two coffins containing the remains of dead hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza. Militants had previously returned the remains of 15…
- Middle East
Israeli soldiers kill Lebanese official in border village raid
Blida: Israeli soldiers raided a municipal government building in a border village in southern Lebanon early on Thursday, October 30, and killed an employee, Lebanese state media said. The incident in the…
- Middle East
Aid groups fear mass killings after RSF seizes Sudan’s El-Fasher
Khartoum: Aid workers worried on Thursday, October 30, that only a trickle of the people believed to have fled a paramilitary force that seized a city in Sudan’s Darfur region have reached…
- World
Over 2,000 civilians killed by RSF in Sudan’s El Fasher, says govt
Khartoum: The Sudanese government said Wednesday, October 29, that more than 2,000 civilians have been killed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in western Sudan’s El Fasher since it entered the…
- World
Amnesty urges inquiry into US strike on Yemen prison killing migrants
Sanaa: An American airstrike in April on a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that killed over 60 detained African migrants should be investigated as a possible war crime, activists said Wednesday,…
- Middle East
Two Russians face sentencing in plot to kill Iranian-American journalist
New York: A plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her Brooklyn home came “chillingly near success,” prosecutors told a judge who will sentence two purported Russian mobsters. Prosecutors are…
- Middle East
US sanctions are ‘revenge’ for exposing Israel’s Gaza abuses, says Francesca Albanese
United Nations: An independent UN investigator again took world nations to task Tuesday for not standing up to the US over sanctions it imposed on her — penalties that complicated her ability…
- News
Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia
Washington: Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. Writing on social media, Musk said that “Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is…
