07-10-2024 BUDAPEST: Thousands of Hungarians gathered outside the headquarters of the country’s state television on Saturday, protesting against what they described as the government’s “propaganda machine” and calling for an independent public service media. The protestors, from the opposition TISZA party, say that the state broadcaster MTVA is running biased …
Read More »India’s ruling party set to lose two state elections
07-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: India’s ruling party is projected to have lost two key provincial elections to the main opposition Congress party and its allies, exit polls showed, suggesting another setback after the party fared poorly in national elections. Local media reported that Congress had a …
Read More »‘Impossible’ for China to be our motherland, Taiwan President
07-10-2024 TAIPEI: It is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become Taiwan’s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island’s President Lai Ching-te said on Saturday. Lai, who took office in May, is condemned by Beijing as a “separatist”. He rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, saying that the …
Read More »Minorities suffer amid conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine
07-10-2024 NAYPYIDAW: Earlier this year, artillery fire crashed through U Khup Thang’s home in Paletwa, in western Myanmar’s Chin State, killing his son. “It felt like a nightmare. I still struggle to find the words to describe it,” said U Khup Thang, an ethnic Chin farmer and laborer. Like others …
Read More »X attempts to pay fine in bid to resume service in Brazil
07-10-2024 BRASILIA: The social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has attempted to pay fines owed to the Brazilian government in a bid to resume services in the country but the media reported on Friday that Brazil’s Supreme Court has yet to lift the site’s suspension, saying the fees …
Read More »Macron’s call for arms embargo is ‘a disgrace’: Netanyahu
07-10-2024 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized French President Emmanuel Macron over his call to halt arms deliveries to Israel for use in Gaza. Macron told France Inter radio that “the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to fight in …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to present ‘victory plan’ at Ramstein meeting
06-10-2024 KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will present Kyiv’s “victory plan” during an upcoming meeting of Western allies in Germany. “We will present the victory plan, clear, specific steps for a just end to the war,” Zelenskiy wrote on October 5, referring to the all-out war with Russia that began …
Read More »India to investigate if beef fat used at Hindu temple
06-10-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Friday directed an investigation team to probe allegations that a sacred offering at one of the most visited Hindu temples was adulterated with animal fat that is considered sacrilege, the Bar and Bench legal website reported. The allegation that …
Read More »Trump’s return to Butler marks a dramatically changed race
06-10-2024 BUTLER. PENNSYLVANIA: Donald Trump appeared to be well on his way to the White House after he was shot nearly three months ago. He was coming off a dominating debate performance against Joe Biden, was leading in national polls and arrived at his nominating convention in Milwaukee a near-martyr. …
Read More »Children among 70 killed in Haiti gang ‘massacre’
06-10-2024 PORT-AU-PRINCE: At least 70 people including children have been killed after an armed gang attacked a small town in Haiti. Sixteen people were seriously injured, according to the UN, as Gran Grif gang members rampaged through Pont-Sondé in the central Artibonite region about 71km (44 miles) north-west of the …
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