16-09-2024 TEL AVIV/ GAZA STRIP: Displaced Palestinians describe returning to what is now just rubble in eastern Gaza City, after Israeli forces withdrew from the area. Israeli forces killed at least 26 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including five at another school-turned-shelter for war-displaced civilians in Gaza City. …
Read More »SpaceX crew returns to Earth after historic mission
16-09-2024 NEW YORK: SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world’s first commercial spacewalk. The Dragon capsule made splashdown off the coast of Florida shortly after 03:37 local time (07:37 GMT), in an event stream lived by SpaceX. …
Read More »Venezuela arrests US and Spanish citizens over ‘plot’
16-09-2024 CARACAS: Venezuelan authorities say they have arrested three US citizens, two Spaniards and one Czech citizen suspected of plotting to destabilize the country. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said hundreds of weapons had also been seized, and that the detainees were plotting to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other …
Read More »French women rally to support Gisele Pelicot
16-09-2024 PARIS/ AVIGNON: When she walks into the courthouse in the French city of Avignon, flanked by her children and a team of lawyers, Gisele Pelicot cuts an unassuming figure. The 72-year-old mother and grandmother, her hair styled into a neat bob, wears colorful dresses and Breton tops. She looks …
Read More »Fears of further flood deaths as rain lashes Europe
16-09-2024 VIENNA: Romania has set up displacement camps and launched rescue operations after floods killed at least four people and destroyed thousands of homes in the east of the country. Military boats and planes are being used to move people to safety, and Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has said the …
Read More »European, Muslim countries meet in Spain for Palestinian statehood
15-09-2024 MADRID: Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war, called for a clear schedule for the international community to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We meet to make another push for the end of …
Read More »Russia produces kamikaze drone with Chinese engine
15-09-2024 MOSCOW/ KYIV: Russia started producing a new long-range attack drone called the Garpiya-A1 last year using Chinese engines and parts, which it has deployed in the war in Ukraine, according to two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents seen by Reuters. The intelligence which included a production …
Read More »Congo military court sentences 37 to death in coup trial
15-09-2024 KINSHASA: A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death 37 people, including three United States citizens, on charges of taking part in a failed coup in May. “The court pronounces the harshest sentence: the death penalty for criminal association, the death penalty …
Read More »India’s top court grants bail to opposition leader Kejriwal
15-09-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s highest court has granted bail to opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a corruption case, paving the way for his release almost six months after he was arrested. Kejriwal, a key leader in an alliance against Prime Minister Narendra …
Read More »Biden slams Trump for attacks on Haitian Americans
15-09-2024 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has denounced election-season attacks on the Haitian American community in the United States, calling out Republican leaders for fear-mongering. Speaking on Friday at a White House brunch billed as a “celebration of Black excellence”, Biden warned that Haitian Americans were a “community that’s under attack …
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