Israel and foes vow to keep fighting in wake of Sinwar’s killing
JERUSALEM: After Hamas confirmed the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar in an attack on Friday, both Israel and its foes in the region — including Hezbollah and Iran — vowed to keep fighting. Iran said Sinwar’s killing would only fuel “the spirit of resistance”, while Hamas insisted it would not release prisoners taken during […]
One Direction singer Liam Payne dead after falling from Buenos Aires hotel balcony
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne was found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires after the 31-year-old fell from his third-floor room balcony, Argentine police said on Wednesday. In a statement, the capital police said they were called to the hotel in the capital’s leafy Palermo neighbourhood where they were notified of an “aggressive […]
21 killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon’s Christian village
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s health ministry said at least 21 people died on Monday in a rare Israeli strike on a northern Christian-majority village, far from Hezbollah strongholds, with DNA tests being conducted to identify body parts. A Lebanese security official said the building “housed families displaced from Lebanon’s south, and was targeted shortly after a man […]
US clashes with China, Russia at Laos summit
VIENTIANE: The United States and its allies clashed on Friday with Russia and China at a summit in Laos dominated by disputes on maritime claims and Ukraine. World leaders descended on the normally tranquil, temple-lined streets of the Laotian capital Vientiane, which marked a rare occasion bringing together the top US and Russian diplomats. US […]
Israeli strikes on Gaza, Beirut kill 50 people
• Three hospitals told to evacuate • Airstrike targets senior Hezbollah figure in Beirut • Israeli forces fire on UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon CAIRO: An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza killed at least 28 people, including women and children, on Thursday, while 22 people were killed in an […]
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 […]
