Israeli strike kills 93 in north Gaza town

At least 93 Palestinians were killed and missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya yesterday, the Gaza health ministry said.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM

For many, economy is personal and they blame Democrats

Tiesha Blackwell, 24, voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but says she is casting her ballot for Republican former president Donald Trump this year, and high food and housing prices are a chief reason.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Canada, UK, EU slap new sanctions on Myanmar

The EU, UK, and Canada yesterday announced fresh sanctions targeting the Myanmar junta’s access to “military materiel, equipment and funds”.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Russia takes two Ukrainian towns

Russia said yesterday it had taken two eastern Ukrainian towns and open-source data indicated that Moscow’s forces were advancing at their fastest pace in at least a year amid signs the conflict is drawing in new players such as North Korea.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Sexual violence on 'staggering' scale in Sudan civil war: UN probe

Children are not spared the abuse, while women and girls are being abducted for sexual slavery, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan says in a new report x
29 October 2024, 10:14 AM

Ballot boxes burnt in US's Washington, Oregon; police suspect arson

Two separate blazes erupted Monday in Portland, Oregon, damaging three ballots, and Vancouver, Washington, destroying hundreds
29 October 2024, 09:25 AM

Hezbollah elects Naim Qassem to succeed slain head Nasrallah

Since Nasrallah's killing, Qassem has given three televised addresses, including one on Oct. 8 in which he said the armed group supported efforts to reach a ceasefire for Lebanon
29 October 2024, 09:13 AM

Indian forces kill 3 militants in 27-hour clash near Jammu border

Indian security forces today killed two militants in a forest near a village in the Akhnoor area of Jammu and Kashmir, bringing the total number of militants killed in the 27-hour gun battle near the disputed Pakistan border to three, officials said.
29 October 2024, 08:43 AM

Outcry as Israel bans main UN Palestinian aid agency

Despite objections from the United States and warnings from the UN Security Council, Israeli lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the bill banning the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from working in Israel and occupied east Jerusalem.
29 October 2024, 05:55 AM

Over 150 injured in firecracker explosions at Kerala temple

More than 150 people were injured, including eight critically, as firecrackers exploded at a religious festival in a temple of India's Kerala late last night, according to police.
29 October 2024, 05:40 AM

North Korea sent 10,000 troops to train in Russia, US says

Seoul has long accused the nuclear-armed North of sending weapons to help Moscow fight Kyiv, and after Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defence deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, Pyongyang is alleged to have moved to deploy soldiers en masse.
29 October 2024, 05:18 AM

Myanmar's lost generation battles trauma, addiction at jungle rehab

Myanmar's military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government in a February 2021 coup, igniting a conflict that has killed thousands, displaced nearly three million people and triggered a boom in drug production.
29 October 2024, 04:20 AM

Iraq opens arms to Lebanese fleeing Israeli attacks

According to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, more than 19,200 Lebanese have arrived in Iraq since the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon.
29 October 2024, 04:13 AM

Outrage as Iran executes German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd

Sharmahd, a German citizen of Iranian descent and a US resident, was seized by Iranian authorities in 2020 while travelling through the United Arab Emirates, according to his family.
29 October 2024, 04:08 AM

Malaysia's former PM Mahathir discharged from hospital

Mahathir, who served as prime minister for more than two decades, has a history of heart problems and has been in and out of hospital several times in recent years.
29 October 2024, 04:01 AM

In his final sprint, Trump refuses to bow to the centre

With just days left in his duel against Kamala Harris, in what could be one of the closest elections in US history, Donald Trump has made no attempt to appeal to moderates, instead doubling down on his provocations, fiery diatribes and often profane insults
29 October 2024, 02:17 AM

Lebanon says 60 killed in Israel strikes in east

Lebanon's health ministry said at least 60 people were killed on Monday in Israeli raids on several areas in the eastern Bekaa Valley, most of them in the Baalbek region
29 October 2024, 02:15 AM

Trump rally filled with vulgar, racist remarks

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump headlined a rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday evening that began with a series of vulgar and racist remarks by allies of the former president.
28 October 2024, 18:04 PM

N Korean unit deployed to Russia’s Kursk region: Nato

Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte said yesterday he could confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia and that North Korean military units have been deployed to the Kursk region.
28 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Iran to ‘use all available tools’ to respond to attack

Tehran will “use all available tools” to respond to Israel’s weekend attack on military targets in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said yesterday.
28 October 2024, 18:00 PM