India SC dismisses review petitions

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed all the petitions seeking review of its November 9 verdict in Ayodhya land dispute case.
12 December 2019

Easterners threaten to wreck EU climate push

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were threatening yesterday to wreck the European Union’s new push for climate neutrality by 2050, just a day after the bloc’s executive trumpeted it as Europe’s “man on the moon” moment.
12 December 2019

NZ military set for risky mission to retrieve bodies

New Zealand’s military will embark on a risky dawn mission to retrieve eight bodies from the still-active White Island volcano, officials said yesterday, as pressure from distraught victims’ families mounted.
12 December 2019

UK election in numbers

Voters across United Kingdom yesterday voted in the third general election in four and-a-half years. Here are some of the key numbers:
12 December 2019

US ‘reprimanded’ Pak for misusing F-16s: report

The US reprimanded Pakistan Air Force chief in August for misusing F-16 fighter jets by undermining their shared security platforms and infrastructures, a media report here has said, months after the Indian Air Force shot down an F-16 jet of Pakistan Air Force during an aerial combat over Kashmir.
12 December 2019

Weinstein agrees to $25 m settlement with accusers

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a $25 million settlement with dozens of women who accused him of sexual misconduct, one of the women’s lawyers told AFP on Wednesday.
12 December 2019

Trump ‘on verge of dictatorship’

Democrats warned that US President Donald Trump was on the verge of dictatorship while Republicans fiercely defended his record at the opening of a stormy, historic debate on impeachment charges Wednesday.
12 December 2019

Greta Thunberg: Time’s Person of the Year

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who became the voice of a generation facing the climate change emergency, was Wednesday named Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year.
12 December 2019

Possible outcomes

Britain went to the polls yesterday to decide the future of Brexit in a snap pre-Christmas election aimed at ending years of political deadlock and bitter divisions over the country’s European Union membership.
12 December 2019

Algeria holds presidential polls as thousands rally against vote

Thousands of people took to the streets in central Algiers yesterday chanting “No vote! We want freedom!” as the authorities held a
12 December 2019

Human remains found in search for Chilean plane

Rescuers have found human remains during the search for a Chilean air force plane that went missing en route to Antarctica with 38 people aboard, a provincial government leader said Wednesday.
12 December 2019

YouTube bans ‘implied’ threats

YouTube yesterday broadened its anti-harassment policies to include a ban on “implied” threats along with insults based on race, gender identity or sexual orientation.
12 December 2019

Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim quizzed

Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim was questioned by police yesterday over allegations he sexually assaulted a male former
12 December 2019

Denmark arrests 20 over attack plot

Danish police said Wednesday they had arrested 20 people suspected of planning “Islamist attacks”. The suspects had tried to acquire weapons and explosive devices, police said.
12 December 2019

US Senate approves Turkey sanctions bill

A US Senate committee backed legislation on Wednesday to impose sanctions on Turkey after its offensive in Syria and purchase of a
12 December 2019

New Delhi’s toxic haze lingers

India’s capital New Delhi was shrouded in a toxic haze for the second straight day yesterday, and visibility dropped due to cooler temperatures and lower wind speeds that let deadly pollutants hang in the air.
12 December 2019

Myanmar asks UN court to ‘drop genocide case’

Myanmar urges the UN top court to drop the application for provisional measures in Rakhine by the Gambia from its list.
12 December 2019

Citizenship Bill: Cops open fire in Assam, 3 dead

Three protesters are killed and many others injured in a police firing in Assam's Guwahati of India amid a raging agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
12 December 2019

Gambia slams Suu Kyi for silence over 'awful serial violations' of Rohingya women, girls

The Gambia criticises Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her "silence" over "awe serial violations" of Rohingya women and girls and defending Myanmar at the UN's top court.
12 December 2019

Rohingya genocide: Full transcript of last 2 days' hearing at ICJ

The hearings at an international court in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Rohingya population at the International Court of Justice in The Hague roles into the third and final day.
12 December 2019