25-03-2024 TUNIS: The Tunisia public prosecutor detained prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb on Friday on suspicion of insulting a public official, which the journalists union said was aimed at silencing the voices of journalists. The detention of Boughalleb, who has been a critic of President Kais Saied, reinforces activists’ fears that …

25-03-2024 JERUSALEM/ RAFAH: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has made a renewed call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “It is time to silence the guns,” he said, speaking from the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the enclave. He also called on Israel to give “total, unfettered” access …

24-03-2024 LONDON: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reached out to the Prince and Princess of Wales following the announcement of Catherine’s cancer diagnosis. Kensington Palace has not commented but the contact is understood to have been made privately. Earlier Prince Harry and Meghan said they wished “health and …

24-03-2024 NEW DELHI: The Indian navy handed over 35 Somali pirates to the police in Mumbai on Saturday, after 100 days of anti-piracy operations east of the Red Sea, where piracy has resurfaced for the first time in nearly a decade. India, the largest national force in the Gulf of …

24-03-2024 CANBERRA/ LONDON: Australia is set to provide 4.6 billion Australian dollars ($3bn) to British industry to help support the construction of nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS deal with the United Kingdom and the United States and ensure its new vessels arrive on time. Senior officials from the UK and …

24-03-2024 CAIRO/ MOSCOW: Islamic State (Daesh/ IS) released on Saturday a photo of what it said were the four attackers behind a shooting rampage that killed at least 143 people in a concert hall near Moscow on Friday, the terrorist group’s Amaq news agency said on Telegram. The publication noted …

24-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India has extended its ban on onion exports indefinitely, a surprise move that comes ahead of a general election and is set to exacerbate high prices in some overseas markets. Imposed by India, the world’s biggest exporter of the vegetable in December, …

24-03-2024 RAFAH CROSSING: A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip where people face starvation is a moral outrage, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a visit to the Rafah crossing on Saturday. It was time for Israel to give an …

24-03-2024 MOSCOW: Russia said on Saturday it had arrested all four gunmen suspected of carrying out a shooting massacre in a concert hall near Moscow, and President Vladimir Putin pledged to track down and punish those behind the attack. Militant Islamist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for Friday’s rampage but …

23-03-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A court in India essentially banned Islamic schools in the country’s most populous state, a move that could further distance many Muslims from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government ahead of national elections. The Friday ruling scraps a 2004 law governing madrasas in …