Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida as state braces for potential catastrophe
Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast on Wednesday, striking a little sooner and further south than forecast, offering the state a glimmer of hope it might be spared the worst of the anticipated catastrophe. The storm made landfall around 8:30pm EDT (12:30am GMT) as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 […]
UN warns world’s water cycle becoming ever more erratic
GENEVA: Increasingly intense floods and droughts are a “distress signal” of what is to come as climate change makes the planet’s water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations warned on Monday. Last year the world’s rivers were their driest for more than 30 years, glaciers suffered their largest loss of ice mass in half […]
Six migrants killed by Mexican soldiers during highway chase
Soldiers chasing suspicious vehicles on a highway in Mexico opened fire and killed six migrants, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. The patrol found 33 migrants from countries including Egypt, Nepal, Cuba, India and Pakistan, it said, without specifying the nationalities of those killed in the incident late on Tuesday in southern Chiapas state. The […]
US to send troops into Middle East as Israel continues attacks
• Flurry of diplomatic activity as Western leaders try to talk down Tehran, Beirut • Tel Aviv claims killing another Hezbollah commander • Crisis cell set up to help Pakistanis • Nasrallah’s body found, funeral not scheduled yet BEIRUT / JERUSALEM: Israel continued its attacks on Lebanon on Sunday, claiming the killing of another top […]
Hong Kong court jails former editor of Stand News for sedition, releases another on health grounds
A Hong Kong court on Thursday night sentenced a former editor to jail for 21 months and immediately released another after they had earlier been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious articles in a ruling that has prompted an international outcry. In a landmark case about media freedom, Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam of […]
51 killed, 20 hurt in Iran coal mine blast
TEHRAN: A blast caused by a gas leak at an Iranian coal mine has killed at least 51 people, state media said on Sunday, in one of the country’s deadliest work accidents in years. “The number of dead workers increased to 51” in the explosion at the Tabas mine in eastern Iran, the official IRNA […]
Sheikh Hasina must stay silent in India till Bangladesh seeks her extradition: Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, has said that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina making political remarks from India is an “unfriendly gesture”, asserting that she must remain silent to prevent the discomfort to both countries until Dhaka requests her extradition. “If India wants to keep her until the time Bangladesh (government) wants […]
Death toll from Bangladesh floods rises to 59
The death toll in Bangladesh from heavy rainfall and subsequent floods caused by river overflows continues to rise, with media reporting 59 deaths as of late Saturday. The Dhaka Tribune said monsoon rains have wreaked havoc across the country for nearly two weeks, severely impacting millions of lives. According to authorities, the floods have affected […]
9 killed as Israeli army attacks four West Bank cities
JENIN: Israel launched a large-scale military operation on Wednesday in four cities of the occupied West Bank, where the army claimed it killed nine Palestinian ‘fighters’, while the nearly 11-month Gaza conflict showed no signs of abating. Violence has also surged in the West Bank in Gaza and has left more than 40,000 people dead, […]
Over 300,000 still in shelters as floods ease in Bangladesh
FENI: River waters in low-lying Bangladesh are receding after days of deadly floods but 300,000 people are still in emergency shelters requiring aid, disaster officials said on Sunday. The heavy floods, which killed at least 18 people in Bangladesh, have added to the challenges of a new government that took charge this month after a student-led […]
