- Middle East
Israel strikes multiple sites in Lebanon ahead of key disarmament meeting
Sidon: Israel’s air force struck areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday and early Tuesday, including in the country’s third-largest city. A strike around 1 a.m. Tuesday leveled a three-story commercial…
- News
Venezuelan govt seeks to show it is operating free from US control
The Venezuelan government on Monday sought to show its people and the world that the country is being run independently and not controlled by the United States following its stunning weekend arrest…
- World
Man breaks into JD Vance’s home in Ohio, detained
Cincinnati: A man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home and caused other property damage was detained early Monday, the US Secret Service said. The man was detained shortly…
- World
Venezuela invasion: Maduro’s case will revive legal debate over immunity
When deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro makes his first appearance in a New York courtroom Monday to face US drug charges, he will likely follow the path taken by another Latin American…
- Middle East
British, French warplanes strike suspected IS weapons facility in Syria
Damascus: British and French warplanes carried out an airstrike in central Syria on an underground facility where members of the Islamic State group are suspected to have stored weapons and explosives, the…
- World
US military operation in Venezuela disrupts Caribbean holiday travel
Washington: The US military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country early Saturday also disrupted Caribbean travel at a busy travel time for the region.…
- Middle East
Death toll rises to at least 10 in violence around Iran protests
Violence surrounding protests in Iran sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy killed two other people, authorities said Saturday, raising the death toll in the demonstrations to at least 10 as they…
- World
US attacks Venezuela: Trump says President Maduro captured
Caracas: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been captured and flown from the country, President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday after confirming that the US forces conducted what he called “a large-scale…
- News
Trump, Iranian security official trade threats amid Iran protests
US President Donald Trump and a top Iranian security official exchanged duelling threats Friday as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after…
- World
Maduro open to US talks on drug trafficking, but silent on CIA strike
Venezuela is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States to combat drug trafficking, the South American country’s President Nicolás Maduro said in a pretaped interview aired Thursday on state television,…
- World
Russia says Ukrainian drone strike kills 24 in occupied Ukraine
Kyiv: Russian officials on Thursday said a Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and wounded at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson…
- Sports
Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappé sidelined with knee injury
Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappé has injured his left knee, the Spanish club said on Wednesday. Madrid said in a brief statement the France superstar had been diagnosed with a sprain but…
- World
Swiss bar fire: Tens of people dead, over 100 injured
Crans-Montana (Switzerland): Swiss Police said “several tens of people” are presumed dead and about 100 injured, most of them seriously, following a fire at a Swiss Alps bar during a New Year’s…
- World
US reviewing over 5.2 million documents in Jeffrey Epstein case
Washington: The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also increases the number of attorneys trying to…
- World
In a first, Zohran Mamdani to take New York Mayor oath on Quran
Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani will take his midnight oath of office on a centuries-old Quran, marking the first time a mayor of New York City uses Islam’s holy text to be sworn…
