International

15-01-2024 ISTANBUL: Turkey carried out air strikes in northern Syria and Iraq, hitting 25 Kurdish militant targets, the Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The operations were conducted in northern Syria and Metina, Hakurk and Qandil regions of northern Iraq at 9 p.m. (1800 GMT), the ministry …

15-01-2024 WASHINGTON: A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a US law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark US Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights. US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of Republican former President …

14-01-2024 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: Pro-Palestinian protests around the world from Johannesburg to Washington, DC call for an end to the genocide. An overnight Israeli army attack on a house in Rafah killed 14 Palestinians, including a two-year-old girl. Israeli bulldozers enter Jenin in the occupied West Bank, local sources …

14-01-2024 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India said on Saturday it had lodged a protest over a senior British diplomat’s visit to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, saying the trip this week had infringed on India’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”. Kashmir is claimed in full, but controlled only in part, by nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, …

14-01-2024 WASHINGTON/ ADEN: The Houthi militia threatened a “strong and effective response” after the United States carried out another strike in Yemen overnight, further ratcheting up tensions as Washington vowed to protect shipping from attacks by the Iran-aligned movement. The strikes have added to concerns about the escalation of a …

14-01-2024 GAZA CITY: Ten people in a house sheltering two displaced families in Rafah were among 135 people killed in Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours, Hamas-run health ministry officials said. The southern Gaza city’s population has swollen to well over a million people as displaced people from other …

14-01-2024 WASHINGTON: The US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin remains in hospital in “good condition” following treatment for prostate cancer, the Pentagon has said. In a statement, it said Austin had resumed some of his duties and is in “contact with his senior staff”. It added that there was no specific …

14-01-2024 TAIPEI: William Lai Ching-te of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won Taiwan’s presidential election despite China’s warnings not to support him. After voters ignored Beijing’s threats and overwhelmingly supported him in the election, Taiwan’s president-elect, Lai Ching-te, pledged on Saturday to protect the self-governing island from “intimidation” by …

13-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s annual retail inflation rose at the fastest pace in four months in December, driven by a rise in prices of some food items, raising expectations that the central bank will stay away from interest rate cuts for some time. Annual retail inflation …

13-01-2024 THE HAGUE: The UN’s top legal body has now heard two days of powerful legal argument on the “crime of all crimes”: genocide. It is now for the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to decide whether Israel, in its war in Gaza, is guilty of an …