03-07-2024 GAZA CITY/ KHAN YOUNIS: The UN says 250,000 Palestinians in southern Gaza have been affected by evacuation orders from the Israeli military. Many people have been fleeing areas in and around the second city of Khan Younis on foot and by car. Patients and medical staff have also been …

03-07-2024 NEW DELHI/ HATHRAS: Over 100 people have died and dozens injured in a stampede at a religious event in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, authorities said. The stampede happened on Tuesday in a village in Hathras district, about 200km (125 miles) southeast of national capital New Delhi. Government …

HYDERABAD’2nd July : Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy reaffirmed the state government’s commitment to curb cybercrimes and transform Telangana into a cyber-safe state. The Chief Minister emphasised the need to tackle cybercrimes with a firm hand during his visit to the Telangana Command & Control Centre (TGCCC), where he chaired …

02-07-2024 BRUSSELS: The European Commission (EC) has charged Meta with breaching the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) via its new “pay or consent” advertising model. The charge announced on Monday follows the tech giant’s launch of the no-ads subscription service for Facebook and Instagram in Europe last November. The move …

02-07-2024 TORONTO: Canada’s WestJet has cancelled more than 800 flights after mechanics walked off the job, upending the travel plans of thousands of people over the Canada Day long weekend. Some 680 workers have been on strike since Friday after the Calgary-based airline and the Airplane Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) …

02-07-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan is set to start the second phase of a controversial plan to send undocumented Afghan refugees back to their country. Beginning Sunday, authorities are likely to expel more than 800,000 Afghans from the country, after about 541,000 were forced to leave in the …

02-07-2024 GENEVA: July 2024 will be the hottest year across the world while deaths are also expected due to extreme heatwave and sudden climate change, experts claimed, while summer has only just begun in the Northern Hemisphere, heatwaves have already gripped many parts of the world including across the United …

02-07-2024 CAIRO/ GAZA CITY: Palestinian detainees are tortured “day and night” in Israel’s prisons, the director of al-Shifa Hospital Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya tells media after his release from eight months’ detention. Israeli tanks advance on the Gaza City district of Shujayea, trapping civilians during intense fighting. Exclusive footage obtained …

02-07-2024 PRETORIA: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has unveiled a new coalition government, after his ruling African National Congress (ANC) party lost its parliamentary majority in May’s elections. He said “the government of national unity… is unprecedented in the history of our democracy”. The ANC will have 20 out of …

02-07-2024 PARIS: France’s far right is in pole position after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in French politics and brought them to the gates of power. Supporters of Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally (RN) cheered as she said the president’s “Macronist bloc has been …