27-09-2024 OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has survived a motion in parliament aimed at bringing down his government and triggering an election. Wednesday’s no-confidence vote is the first in a series of similar votes expected to be put forward by the opposition Conservative Party amid Trudeau’s plummeting approval ratings. …

27-09-2024 PARIS: The murder of a 19-year-old female student in an exclusive neighborhood of Paris is fueling new calls from the French right for tougher action on immigration. The body of the young woman, named only as Philippine, was found on Saturday, half-buried in the Bois de Boulogne Park on …

27-09-2024 KYIV: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United Nations that Russia is planning deeper attacks on his country’s nuclear power plants, warning of possible “nuclear disaster”. He said he had received intelligence showing Moscow was using satellites provided by other countries to gather information about Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure. …

27-09-2024 JERUSALEM/ BEIRUT: Israel’s military chief has told troops that extensive air strikes in Lebanon targeting the armed group Hezbollah could pave the way for them to “enter enemy territory”. “You hear the jets overhead; we have been striking all day. This is both to prepare the ground for your …

26-09-2024 BANGKOK: Thailand’s king has signed a marriage equality bill into law, making the country the first in South East Asia to recognize same-sex unions. The bill cleared the Senate in June but required royal endorsement to become law. It was published in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday and will …

26-09-2024 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has dissolved parliament to clear the way for a snap general election in the debt-ridden country, he said in a government gazette notification on Tuesday. The parliamentary election will be held on Nov. 14, the notification said, adding that the …

26-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Foreign diplomats from 15 countries were allowed to observe local elections in India’s Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as New Delhi highlighted the first vote in the disputed Himalayan territory in a decade. It was the first time India has invited foreign …

26-09-2024 TEHRAN: Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei insists that Lebanon’s Hezbollah still stands strong despite losing some of its top commanders to Israeli strikes. Speaking at a meeting with military personnel on Wednesday, as Israel’s bombardment targeting the Shia armed group continued for the third …

26-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has been briefed by US intelligence on threats from Iran to assassinate him, his campaign said. The Republican presidential candidate was briefed “regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States”, the campaign …

26-09-2024 BEIJING: China has said it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean. The ICMB was launched at 08:44 local time (04:44 GMT) on Wednesday and “fell into expected sea areas”, Beijing’s defence ministry said, adding that the test launch was “routine” …