Turkey halts all trade with Israel, cites worsening Palestinian situation

Turkey stopped all exports and imports to and from Israel as of Thursday, the Turkish trade ministry said, citing "worsening humanitarian tragedy" in the Palestinian territories
3 May 2024

Taiwan detects 26 Chinese aircraft, five ships around island

Taiwan's defence ministry said Friday it had detected 26 Chinese aircraft and five naval vessels around the self-ruled island in the previous 24 hours
3 May 2024

Fresh chaos, arrests on US college campuses as police flatten camp at UCLA

Police forcibly removed scores of defiant pro-Palestinian protesters at several colleges on Thursday, including taking down an encampment at UCLA in a jarring scene that underscored the heightened chaos that has erupted at universities this week..In the pre-dawn ho
3 May 2024

Heavy rain returns to desert UAE

Schools and many offices were closed across the United Arab Emirates yesterday as heavy rains returned to the desert country just two weeks after record downpours that experts linked to climate change.
2 May 2024

Doubts grow over Gaza truce deal

Doubts grew yesterday over the fate of a Gaza truce plan that, as the week began, had raised hopes of an end to nearly seven months of Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
2 May 2024

US newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over AI chatbots

Eight US newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in a New York federal court Tuesday for violating their copyright to train the technology behind the ChatGPT and Copilot chatbots.
2 May 2024

Grid meeting half of power needs amid conflict: junta

Myanmar is producing about half of the electricity it needs each day, the junta has said, blaming scant rainfall for hydropower, lower natural gas yields and attacks by its opponents on infrastructure.
2 May 2024

Gaza mourns death of over 140 journos in Israeli attacks

At least 141 Palestinian journalists and media professionals have been killed and 70 others injured in Israel’s ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip, the government media office said yesterday.
2 May 2024

Low turnout a worry for Modi’s campaign

A lower turnout so far in India’s long general election has rattled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign managers, raising into question whether his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies can achieve the landslide victory predicted by opinion polls just one month ago.
2 May 2024

India lodges protest against China’s construction in Shaksgam Valley

India has registered its protest with China against their “illegal attempts to alter facts” in connection with Beijing’s construction activities in the Shaksgam Valley, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
2 May 2024

Rebuilding bombed Gaza homes may take 80 yrs: UN

Rebuilding homes in the Gaza Strip could drag into the next century if the pace follows the trend of previous conflicts, according to a UN report released yesterday.
2 May 2024

Biden says 'order must prevail' amid campus protests on Gaza

President Joe Biden broke his virtual silence Thursday on the nationwide Gaza campus protests, saying the United States was not authoritarian but insisting "order must prevail."
2 May 2024

Has the war in Gaza exposed limitations of free speech in US?

Protests have rocked US university campuses over the last week as pro-Palestinian students have encamped on the grounds of Columbia, Yale, and New York University, among other prestigious educational institutions, urging universities to divest from the state of Israel amid the ongoing genocide.
2 May 2024

Will punish Palestinian authority if ICC issues warrants: Israel tells US

Israeli has warned the US administration that if the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, it will take retaliatory steps against the Palestinian Authority that could lead to its collapse, said two Israeli and US officials
2 May 2024

Bogota cuts ties with Israel over 'genocidal' Gaza campaign

President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday Colombia will sever diplomatic ties with Israel, whose leader he described as "genocidal" in its war in Gaza
2 May 2024

As student protests shake US campuses, Biden mum

What does Joe Biden have to say about the rowdy student protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza that have rocked American college campuses in recent weeks? Almost nothing
2 May 2024

UK researchers unveil face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman

Named Shanidar Z after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where her skull was found in 2018, the latest discovery has led experts to probe the mystery of the forty-something Neanderthal woman laid to rest in a sleeping position beneath a huge vertical stone marker.
2 May 2024

US accuses Russia of using 'chemical weapon' in Ukraine

"The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident, and is probably driven by Russian forces' desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield," the State Department said.
2 May 2024

US Federal Reserve keeps interest rates at 23-year high

"The economic outlook is uncertain, and the Committee remains highly attentive to inflation risks," the Fed said in a statement.
2 May 2024

Amazon triples quarterly profit as cloud surges

E-commerce titan Amazon on Tuesday said profit in the first three months of 2024 tripled as its cloud, ads, and retail businesses thrived
1 May 2024