Biden backs Israel amid Arab rage over hospital tragedy
• Jordan cancels summit with US president • US vetoes resolution seeking pause in fighting • Israel ‘conditionally’ allows aid for Gaza through Egypt BEIRUT: While Arab and Muslim nations on Wednesday squarely blamed Israel for the bombing of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza that left over 470 Palestinians dead and demanded Tel Aviv’s […]
Barbaric Israeli bombing creates ‘million refugees’
• UN terms situation in besieged enclave ‘unprecedented human catastrophe’; UNSC reviewing draft resolutions • Tel Aviv claims water supply restored to south Gaza; US fears hostilities could extend to Lebanon • Entire Palestinian families wiped out in bombardment GAZA STRIP: More than one million people have been displaced by sustained Israeli bombardment in the […]
Anti-Israel protests continue in US despite harassment
WASHINGTON: An Arab advocacy group has claimed that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has detained some Palestinian Americans, apparently for participating in protest rallies against Israel. “We have received multiple calls today regarding Palestinian nationals detained by ICE, and/or visited by the FBI,” Abed Ayoub, the executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination […]
Hong Kong raises warning for typhoon, closes schools
HONG KONG: Hong Kong issued its second-highest storm warning signal on Sunday, prompting the closure of some transport services and schools, as Typhoon Koinu skirted the financial hub, bringing rains and powerful gusts. Koinu comes just a month after Hong Kong was lashed by Typhoon Saola, which triggered its highest “T10” storm alert. A week […]
Afghanistan earthquakes kill 2,053, Taliban say, as death toll spikes
Powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan have killed more than 2,000 people and injured more than 9,000, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors in years in the quake-prone mountainous country. Amid the confusion, the death toll from Saturday’s quakes spiked from 500 reported on Sunday morning by a Red Crescent spokesperson and 16 […]
Turkiye hits targets in Iraq, threatens Syria
ISTANBUL: Turkiye on Wednesday launched fresh strikes against Kurdish targets in Iraq and warned of more intense cross-border air raids after concluding that militants who staged a weekend attack in Ankara came from Syria. Turkiye convened a national security meeting involving top defence and intelligence chiefs to prepare its response to Sunday’s attack on the […]
Trump ‘gagged’ after tirade against court official
NEW YORK: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial on Tuesday imposed a gag order – promising sanctions for any violations – after the former US president used social media to lash out against the judge’s top law clerk. Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York state court in Manhattan told lawyers for Trump […]
Senegal intercepts boats carrying 262 migrants
SAINT LOUIS: The Senegalese Navy said on Sunday it had stopped two more boats carrying 262 would-be migrants late the previous night, taking the total to five boats intercepted and over 600 people rescued by a navy patrol boat since Thursday. Those rescued included 26 women and 13 minors, the navy said in a post […]
Karabakh to be part of Azerbaijan as rebels give up
YEREVAN: Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday agreed to dissolve their government by the end of the year and become a full part of Azerbaijan in the wake of Baku’s lightning offensive. The dramatic announcement came moments after it became clear that more than half of the rebel region’s population had fled the advancing […]
Chinese hackers stole 60,000 US government emailsfrom 10 State Dept accounts: Senate staffer
Tens of thousands of emails were stolen from US State Department accounts by Chinese hackers who exploited Microsoft’s email system earlier this year, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday. The staff member, who was present at an earlier Wednesday briefing of State Department IT personnel, claimed the officials informed senators that 60,000 emails had […]
