19-08-2024 BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA: A police sniper potentially saved lives by shooting the rifle of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin and knocking him down, an investigation says. According to a report by Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins, the sniper’s bullet damaged Thomas Matthew Crooks’s gun and disrupted his aim after he took his …

19-08-2024 DHAKA: The videos are shocking: buildings burning, horrifying violence and women weeping as they plead for help. They are, the people sharing them say, proof of a “Hindu genocide” happening in Bangladesh in the wake of the sudden fall of the country’s long-time leader, Sheikh Hasina. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who …

19-08-2024 WASHINGTON: When Kamala Harris steps onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week as the party’s presidential nominee, she’ll do so knowing that many in the audience cheering her on once counted her out. Harris, 59, has faced years of doubt from some within her …

19-08-2024 CARACAS: Opposition supporters have gathered across Venezuela to protest against Nicolas Maduro’s disputed victory in last month’s presidential election. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado joined thousands of protesters in the capital, Caracas, and urged them not to be afraid. Machado, who had been in hiding after being accused of …

18-08-2024 DOHA/ CAIRO/ GAZA CITY: Hamas has described suggestions of progress on an Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal as an illusion, after US President Joe Biden said he was feeling “optimistic”. Following two days of US-backed talks in Qatar, President Biden said on Friday “we are closer than we have ever been” …

18-08-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: The head of India’s markets regulator, Madhabi Puri Buch, continued to earn revenue from a consultancy firm during her seven-year tenure, potentially breaching rules for regulatory officials, according to public documents reviewed by Reuters. Hindenburg Research has alleged a conflict of interest in Buch’s …

18-08-2024 GAZA CITY: The Israeli military has bombed a warehouse sheltering displaced Palestinians in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza, martyring 15 members of one family, including nine children. The civil defence spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, said on Saturday that 15 people killed in the overnight attack were members …

18-08-2024 BERMUDA: Hurricane Ernesto has made landfall in Bermuda, leaving tens of thousands of people without power as it lashed the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. The Category 1 storm brought maximum sustained winds of 140km/h (87mph) to Bermuda home to …

18-08-2024 HARARE: Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production causing food shortages in several countries. Elias Magosi, executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said …

18-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Indian doctors launched a nationwide strike Saturday, escalating protests after the “barbaric” rape and murder of their colleague that has channeled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body at a state-run hospital …