Bomb blast in Kabul leaves one dead, 11 injured
KABUL: A bomb blast on a minibus in a neighbourhood of Afghanistan’s capital killed one person and wounded 11 others on Sunday, a Kabul police spokesman said. The blast went off in Dasht-i-Barchi — home to many Shias, a historically persecuted community in Afghanistan and a frequent target of the Islamic State group that considers […]
Israel kills 12 Palestinians in West Bank raids
• Hezbollah launches drone attacks on two military sites, warns more to come • Israeli rights group says Palestinian prisoners subject to systematic abuse JENIN: Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, as violence in the occupied territory showed no sign of abating. […]
OIC meeting to discuss Israeli crimes tomorrow
ISLAMABAD: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an open-ended extraordinary meeting of its executive committee at the foreign ministers’ level on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, including the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and its aggressions against Iran’s sovereignty. The meeting would be […]
Bangladesh former top generals ask PM Hasina to withdraw troops from streets
DHAKA: A group of Bangladesh’s former senior military generals on Sunday asked the government to withdraw the armed forces from the streets and send them back to barracks, amid fresh violence across the country over the quota system for government jobs. “We urge the government to undertake political initiatives to resolve the ongoing crisis. […]
Khan Yunis in ruins after Israeli assault kills 300
GAZA STRIP: Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Tuesday that an Israeli operation in and around the territory’s second city of Khan Yunis killed about 300 people since it began last week, while the army claimed it had “eliminated 150 terrorists”. ADVERTISEMENT “Since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of the eastern part of […]
No one has full picture of airport assault, says Manchester mayor
LONDON: New footage has surfaced showing the alleged assault of three police officers at Manchester airport, followed by an officer kicking a man in the head. The chaotic scenes, captured in the video obtained by the Manchester Evening News, depict an officer kicking and stamping on the head of a man lying face down on […]
Biden quits race, backs Harris for White House
REHOBOTH BEACH: Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the US presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s new nominee, in a move that upends the 2024 race for the White House. The 81-year-old Biden stepped aside after weeks of pressure from Democrats following a disastrous debate performance, throwing the […]
Biden tests positive for Covid, will self-isolate in Delaware
US President Joe Biden, under pressure from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for Covid-19 while visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday and is self-isolating after experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after Biden cancelled a speech due […]
Dozens killed as Israeli tanks storm Gaza City districts
CAIRO: Israeli forces pounded Gaza City early on Monday and columns of tanks advanced into the heart of the city from different directions in what residents said was ‘one of the heaviest attacks’ since October last year. The Gaza Civil Emergency Service said it believed dozens of people were killed but emergency teams were unable […]
Israeli strike kills Hamas official in Gaza
• Cairo to host negotiators from US, Tel Aviv • Hamas says its latest proposals ‘welcomed’ by Washington • 500,000 Gazans enduring ‘catastrophic’ hunger, UN agencies say GAZA STRIP: A Hamas-appointed deputy minister of labour was among several people, including children, killed as deadly Israeli strikes continued unabated in the Palestinian enclave with diplomatic efforts […]
