International

26-10-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: Israel has rejected calls from the UN secretary-general, Palestinians and a number of countries for a cease-fire. At the UN Security Council meeting, earlier remarks by UN chief Antonio Guterres on the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel drew a furious Israeli response. The rival …

26-10-2023 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Israel will refuse visas to United Nations officials, its ambassador to the UN has said, as the country’s spat with the international organization deepens. Gilad Erdan made the statement on Wednesday, according to Israeli media, as the fallout from the UN chief’s speech at the Security …

26-10-2023 MEXICO CITY: Hurricane Otis, an “extremely dangerous” category five storm, has made landfall in southern Mexico, US meteorologists say. According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Otis touched down near the popular Acapulco resort just after midnight on Wednesday (06:25 GMT). The storm’s winds are forecast to reach 165mph …

26-10-2023 GAZA CITY: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has lashed out at Israel for violating international humanitarian law as a senior doctors in the besieged territory said that Israel of using new “deadly weapons” against the civilians in Gaza. More than 5,700 Palestinians, also mostly civilians, have been martyred across the …

26-10-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The air quality in India’s capital Delhi has fallen to poor levels and is expected to deteriorate further in the coming days, officials have said. Delhi is one of the world’s most polluted cities through the year but its air turns especially toxic in winter …

26-10-2023 JERUSALEM: According to reports from the Palestinian state news agency, WAFA, Israeli authorities have temporarily closed the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s old city, preventing Muslim worshippers from entering the holy site. The closure was ordered by Israeli police, who shut down all access gates to the walled compound and …

26-10-2023 MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA: Dozens of US states on Tuesday accused social media giant Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, of deceptive and unlawful conduct harming vulnerable youth for financial gain “from children´s pain”. “In seeking to maximize its financial gains, Meta has repeatedly misled the public about …

25-10-2023 BERLIN: Several people are missing after a collision between two cargo ships in the North Sea, one of which is believed to have sunk, German authorities said on Tuesday. The accident happened early on Tuesday morning about 22 kilometres (13 miles) southwest of the island of Helgoland, the German …

25-10-2023 ALASKA: An off-duty pilot has been charged with 83 counts of attempted murder, after he allegedly tried to crash a passenger jet during a flight on Sunday night. The suspect was sitting in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines flight behind the captain and the first-officer, according to an …

25-10-2023 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The United States has said China is expanding its arsenal of nuclear weapons even more quickly than expected. China had more than 500 operational nuclear warheads by May 2023 and was “on track to exceed previous projections”, the Pentagon said in its annual report (PDF) on China’s …