Lebanon, Israel clinch maritime border deal for energy exploration
BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel have reached a historic agreement demarcarting a disputed maritime border between them following years of US-mediated negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday. The deal would mark a significant compromise between states with a history of war and hostility, opening the way for offshore energy exploration and easing a […]
Putin vows more severe attacks as missiles kill 11 Ukrainians
KYIV: President Vladimir Putin threatened on Monday more “severe” attacks against Ukraine after Russian missiles rained down on the capital Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in what Washington branded “utter brutality”. The biggest wave of strikes across Ukraine in months killed at least 11 and wounded more than 80 in retaliation for an explosion this […]
Iran state TV hacked with image of supreme leader in crosshairs
Hackers backing Iran’s wave of women-led protests interrupted a state TV news broadcast with an image of gun-sight crosshairs and flames over the face of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in footage widely shared online on Sunday. In other anti-regime messages, activists have spray-painted “Death to Khamenei” and “The Police are the Murderers of the People” on […]
Thailand mourns after over 34 die in daycare centre attack targeting children
Thai government buildings flew flags at half mast on Friday to mourn the death of more than 30 people, including 23 children, after an ex-policeman burst into a daycare centre in a knife and gun rampage that left the nation shocked and seeking answers. Most of the children who died at the daycare centre in Uthai Sawan, […]
US duo and Dane win Nobel for ‘click chemistry’
STOCKHOLM: A trio of scientists from the United States and Denmark won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for laying the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry where molecules are linked together. Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark’s Morten Meldal, were honoured “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal […]
Indonesia looking for answers after deadly soccer stampede
MALANG: Dozens of Indonesian police were placed under investigation on Monday over a stampede at a soccer match that killed 125 people, as authorities sought to determine what caused one of the world’s deadliest stadium disasters and who was to blame. Nine police were stripped of their positions and the local police chief transferred, police spokesperson Dedi […]
Russia annexes four Ukraine regions amid warnings from West
• Ukraine seeks accelerated accession to Nato • US seeks to slap severe sanctions on Moscow • Putin says West ready to step over everything to preserve neo-colonialism MOSCOW: Despite warnings from the West and the United Nations Secretary-General, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed treaties to annex four Moscow-occupied Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Kherson, […]
China certifies homegrown C919 jet to compete with Boeing, Airbus
Chinese regulators have approved the country’s first domestically produced large passenger jet, local media said, with Beijing hoping the plane will challenge foreign models such as the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320. The C919 narrow-body jet, built by state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC), was certified at Beijing Capital Airport in an official […]
Waning Hurricane Ian creeps across Florida after battering Gulf Coast
A weakened but still formidable Hurricane Ian chugged across Florida toward the Atlantic seaboard on Thursday after thrashing the state’s Gulf Coast with fierce winds, torrential downpours and raging surf that flooded oceanside communities. Ian blasted ashore with catastrophic force on Wednesday afternoon as a Category 4 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 150 miles […]
Blasts, leaks in Russian pipelines alarm Europe; foul play feared
COPENHAGEN: Explosions were recorded before mysterious leaks in two Baltic Sea gas pipelines linking Russia and Europe, seismologists said on Tuesday, raising suspicions of sabotage amid tensions over Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Photos taken by the Danish military showed large masses of bubbles on the surface of the water emanating from the three leaks in […]
