International

15-04-2024 NIAMEY: Hundreds took to the streets of Niger’s capital, Niamey, on Saturday to demand the departure of US troops. It comes after the West African country’s military leadership said it was withdrawing from a military agreement with the US. Several prominent figures from the junta were present at the …

15-04-2024 Thousands of reproductive rights supporters rallied on Saturday in Florida to support a voter referendum that would enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution, an effort Democrats hope will boost their chances to win the Southern state in November’s presidential election. Activists in Arizona where a similar ballot measure …

15-04-2024 JERUSALEM: Israel says it and its allies have intercepted the vast majority of more than 300 drones and missiles launched by Iran. It says there were a small number of hits on its territory, including at an IDF base in southern Israel, while one person has been injured. Iran’s …

15-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Unemployment and inflation are the main concerns of Indian voters but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong leadership, his party’s Hindu nationalist agenda and India’s rising global stature will likely help his re-election bid, a survey shows. The findings illustrate that benefits of India’s …

15-04-2024 JERUSALEM/ WEST BANK: Israel’s army says it has found the body of a 14-year-old shepherd in the occupied West Bank, a day after he went missing. Benjamin Achimeir had taken a flock of sheep out to graze from Malachi Hashalom, a settler outpost near Ramallah on Friday morning. PM …

15-04-2024 SYDNEY: A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police. Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing people with a long blade. Five women and …

14-04-2024 TEHRAN/ JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT/ DAMASCUS: Iran has launched dozens of aerial drones and missiles at Israel, marking a widely anticipated reprisal attack. It is the first such direct clash between the two enemies, who have been engaged in a years-long shadow war, with Iran using proxy forces. The Israeli military …

15-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: In a campaign video clip, India’s ruling party credits Prime Minister Narendra Modi for halting the Russia-Ukraine war two years ago so the government could rescue and repatriate nearly 20,000 stranded Indian students. In the video, a young woman rushes to her middle-aged …

14-04-2024 BEIRUT: Hezbollah said it has fired “dozens of rockets” at Israeli artillery positions in response to the Israeli military’s strikes in southern Lebanon, in one of its largest assaults since the start of the war on Gaza. The Iran-aligned armed Lebanese group confirmed in a statement late on Friday …

14-04-2024 KHARTOUM: The woman with sad eyes and a quiet voice is just one of the millions of people living in camps for those forced to flee their homes in Sudan, where a civil war broke out a year ago between the army and an armed paramilitary group. The country …