07-02-2025 BERLIN: Activist groups have sued Elon Musk’s social media platform X in a Berlin court, accusing it of breaking European law by not giving them the information they need to track disinformation online ahead of Germany’s Feb. 23 national election. The two groups, the Society for Civil Rights (GFF) …

07-02-2025 LISBON: Rahim al-Hussaini, 53, has been named the new Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims, after the death of his father, the Ismaili community has announced. The Aga Khan V, the 50th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, was designated in his father’s will …

07-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ PRAYAGRAJ: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took holy dips in sacred river waters in the northern city of Prayagraj on Wednesday as he joined millions of people at the Maha Kumbh Mela, a week after dozens died in a stampede at the event. Authorities said …

07-02-2025 FIRA: A strong earthquake has been recorded between the Greek islands of Amorgos and Santorini, after days of consecutive tremors in the area. More than 11,000 people have already left Santorini with around 7,000 departing by ferry and 4,000 people leaving by air. The quake followed two smaller tremors …

07-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, delight from Israel’s far right and a warning against “ethnic cleansing” from the head of the UN. The secretary general, Antonio Guterres, planned to tell a UN …

07-02-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ KINSHASA: More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday, after fighters from the M23 rebel group began to take over the …

06-02-2025 LONDON/ MIDDLESBROUGH: In the middle of last year, Shazia Noor Ghani’s phone was a relentless barrage of anxiety, fear, and heartbreak. A mother of three, she found herself at the centre of a desperate crisis, managing a hotline that was inundated with calls from terrified Muslim women in Middlesbrough, …

New Delhi’, February 6: On Wednesday, Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) staged a protest demanding a discussion in Parliament regarding the recent deportation of over 100 Indian nationals from the United States. Several MPs, including Amritsar MP Gurujit Singh Aujla, joined the protest while sporting handcuffs, symbolizing the inhumane treatment …

06-02-2025 LONDON: A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally “unwrapped”, providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD and is too fragile to ever …

06-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AMRITSAR: A US deportation flight carrying about 100 Indian nationals accused of entering the country illegally has landed in the state of Punjab. The military aircraft, which left Texas late on Tuesday, is now in the city of Amritsar where authorities say they …