Friday, April 26, 2024
BRUSSELS — European Union (EU) leaders are in Brussels for a two-day summit starting from Wednesday to discuss the EU’s economic future, the Ukraine war and major tensions between Israel and Iran. The EU must “unite in urging all partie...
17 Apr 2024
YANGON — Myanmar’s State Administration Council granted amnesty to more than 3,000 prisoners on Wednesday, the first day of the traditional Myanmar New Year. Among them were 3,303 Myanmar nationals and 36 foreign prisoners, including 13 Indon...
17 Apr 2024
NEW YORK — Seven jurors were selected in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, the first criminal trial against a former US President. Representatives of the prosecution and defence as well as Judge Juan Merchan interviewed a number of...
17 Apr 2024
TEL AVIV — The Israel Air Force has attacked a building in Rafah in southern Gaza, killing seven people. According to Israeli media, the attack occurred early Wednesday morning. The US and other allies of Israel had asked Israel not to attack Rafah...
17 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — The US is planning new sanctions against Iran following Tehran’s missile and drone attacks on Israel, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said. Sullivan said on Tuesday that US President Joe Biden was “coordinating ...
17 Apr 2024
BERLIN — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has once again warned Israel against mounting a military counterattack following Iran’s recent air assault on Israel. During a telephone call with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Rais...
16 Apr 2024
NEW YORK — Former US President Donald Trump is due to return to court on Tuesday after no jurors were selected on the first day of the former president’s criminal hush money trial in New York. The process of whittling down hundreds of people ...
16 Apr 2024
SYDNEY (IANS/DPA) — Australian police are treating a stabbing at a Sydney church as a terrorist attack, New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said on Tuesday. Police were called to Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, western Sydney...
16 Apr 2024
GAZA — Israel is seeking a ceasefire agreement with Hamas to secure the release of its hostages before resuming military operations in the Gaza Strip, Ezzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, has said. Al-Rishq said on Monday that...
16 Apr 2024
TEL AVIV — Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt Gen Herzi Halevi has said that Iran will face the consequences of its action. Halevi in a video statement on Monday, after visiting Nevatim air base in southern Israel, said that the ballisti...
16 Apr 2024
SYDNEY — In yet another shocking incident, a bishop and a few other worshippers were stabbed by a man during a church service that was being broadcast online in Sydney on Monday evening (local time). In a video that has now gone viral on social med...
15 Apr 2024
MOSCOW — Conditions are deteriorating in regions of southern Russia hit by spring flooding, authorities in the area reported on Monday. Up to 15,600 homes and 28,000 inhabited properties were under water, with the situation in the Kurgan region on ...
15 Apr 2024
ISLAMABAD — Amid heightened tensions between Iran and Israel after Tehran’s major and unprecedented missile and drone attack, bringing the region on the edge, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is set to land in Pakistan on April 22. Sources said th...
15 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early Monday that all restrictions it put in place shortly before Iran’s overnight attack on Saturday have been lifted. The restrictions, including a ban on all educational activities and large...
15 Apr 2024
BRUSSELS/ROME — European Union (EU) and Group of Seven (G7) leaders have called for preventing a further escalation of the situation in the Middle East following Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel. “Everything must be done to prevent ...
15 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — After hearing a warning at the polarised Security Council’s emergency meeting from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the “Middle East was on the brink”, the only consensus was that there should be no further escalation ...
15 Apr 2024
TARA TORAJA — Torrential rains triggered landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 people and leaving three others missing, officials said Sunday. Mud fell from surrounding hills onto four houses just before midnight Satu...
14 Apr 2024
MALE — The second batch of Indian military personnel manning a helicopter gifted by India to the Maldives has left the island nation as demanded by him, President Mohamed Muizzu has said. Muizzu, a pro-China leader, also reaffirmed that foreign amb...
14 Apr 2024
LAHORE — Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner who was attacked and murdered by fellow inmates at a jail in Pakistan’s Lahore, before his demise, gave a fickle ray of hope to his family members and well-wishers about his release, only to later ...
14 Apr 2024
BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes struck a pro-Iranian Hezbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon on Sunday, inflicting at least three casualties, Lebanese security and Hezbollah sources said. Lebanese security sources said a two-storey building was hit by I...
14 Apr 2024
OTTAWA — A 24-year-old Indian student was shot dead in his car in Sunset neighbourhood in Canada’s Vancouver, police said on Sunday. Chirag Antil, 24, was found dead inside a vehicle in the area, the Vancouver Police said in a statement. Afte...
14 Apr 2024
TEL AVIV — The Indian mission in Israel on Sunday issued a fresh advisory for its nationals asking them to be safe and calm, a day after Iran attacked the Jewish state. In a post on X, the Indian mission posted an advisory that read, “In ligh...
14 Apr 2024
WASHINGTON — The US, Canada and the UN have condemned the Iranian air attack on Israel, with President Joe Biden reaffirming America’s “ironclad commitment” to the Jewish nation and vowing to convene a meeting of the G-7 leaders on Su...
14 Apr 2024
JERUSALEM — Booms and air raid sirens sounded across Israel early Sunday after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East closer to a regionwide war. A mi...
14 Apr 2024
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has left Baghdad for an official visit to Washington to discuss the issues of ending the U.S.-led international coalition’s mission in Iraq, according to a statement by al-Sudani&#...
13 Apr 2024
