Imran offers conditional talks with Pak military

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has offered to hold “conditional negotiations” with the powerful military as he serves a year into a jail term that he said he was given on trumped up charges designed to keep him out of power.
31 July 2024

Death toll in Kerala landslides rises to 167

Soldiers and rescuers worked through slush and rocks under steady rain, looking for survivors and searching for bodies in the hills of India’s Kerala state yesterday, a day after more than 165 people were killed in monsoon landslides.
31 July 2024

Ukraine downs 89 Russian drones

Ukraine’s air force said yesterday it repelled one of Russia’s largest long-range drone attacks of the war overnight, shooting down all 89 drones launched at Kyiv, the surrounding region and other areas.
31 July 2024

Israel used waterboarding to torture them: UN report

Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians during the offensive in Gaza and stands accused of numerous cases of torture, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a new report.
31 July 2024

Haniyeh was seen as more moderate face of Hamas

Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was killed in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group’s international diplomacy as the offensive raged back in Gaza, where three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
31 July 2024

‘It’s our duty to seek revenge’

The killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in an air strike in Tehran on Wednesday blamed on Israel has stunned the international community
31 July 2024

Pakistan's Imran Khan offers conditional talks with the military

Khan has been in jail since last August facing dozens of charges ranging from corruption to leaking state secrets.
31 July 2024

World reactions to killing of Hamas leader Haniyeh

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike in Iran, the group said, in an act that has stunned the international community..Israel has not commented on the death but many countries have warned that it will have a major impact on efforts to bring a ce
31 July 2024

Australia launches landmark peanut allergy treatment for babies

Eligible babies will receive daily doses of peanut powder for two years to build up their tolerance
31 July 2024

Kerala landslides: Death toll rises to 158

The death count in the deadly landslides in India's Kerala galloped to 158 as military personnel today intensified search and rescue operations, officials said
31 July 2024

Myanmar's junta terrorises a Rohingya town, then rebels burn it down

Both sides in the civil war have targeted the Rohingya settlement of Buthidaung. On May 17, the Arakan Army, an ethnic militia, set it ablaze.
31 July 2024

Tough-talking Haniyeh was seen as the more moderate face of Hamas

Three of Haniyeh's sons - Hazem, Amir and Mohammad - were killed on April 10 when an Israeli air strike struck a car
31 July 2024

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran, Hamas says

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran on Wednesday, the Palestinian group Hamas and Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said in separate statements
31 July 2024

85 patients leave Gaza in biggest medical evacuation since war began: WHO

The WHO said 85 patients had been evacuated Tuesday from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates, in the largest medical evacuation from the Palestinian territory since the war began in October
31 July 2024

'Say it to my face,' Harris dares Trump as White House battle deepens

US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris launched a searing attack on Donald Trump Tuesday, telling her biggest campaign rally yet that the momentum was shifting in the White House race and daring the Republican to debate her face to face
31 July 2024

Israel targets Hezbollah commander in south Beirut strike

Israel struck Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut on Tuesday in retaliation for rocket fire from Lebanon that killed 12 children over the weekend, saying it had targeted the commander responsible for the attack
30 July 2024

Radical UK preacher jailed for life

British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary, whose followers have been linked to numerous plots around the world, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for directing a terrorist organisation.
30 July 2024

Sri Lanka president gets backing from 92 lawmakers

Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe received backing from 92 lawmakers in the parliament yesterday, his media office said, giving momentum to his reelection bid in a vote in September.
30 July 2024

Druze in Golan reject Israel’s retaliation threat

Druze residents of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights yesterday distanced themselves from Israeli threats to retaliate against Lebanon’s Hezbollah group for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory.
30 July 2024

World’s forests failed to curb 2023 emissions

Forests and other land ecosystems failed to curb climate change in 2023 as intense drought in the Amazon rainforest and record wildfires in Canada hampered their natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide, according to a study presented on Monday.
30 July 2024