50 killed in two days of Sudan battles

Local activists in central Sudan have reported over 50 people killed since clashes erupted in Al-Jazira state on Sunday after a paramilitary commander defected to the army.
22 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Ukraine population 8 million less since Russia invasion: UN

Ukraine’s population has declined by around eight million since Russia invaded in February 2022, sparking an exodus and sending birth rates plunging, the United Nations said Tuesday.
22 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Peace talks ‘depend’ on US election: Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the prospect of peace talks with Russia “depends” on the outcome of next month’s US presidential election.
22 October 2024, 18:00 PM

War has knocked Gaza back to the 1950s: UNDP

The war between Israel and Hamas has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza’s population in poverty, with quality of life indicators such as health and education knocked back 70 years, the United Nations’ development agency said yesterday.
22 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Hezbollah says it launched volley of rockets into Israel

Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at two bases near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and one west of Haifa on Tuesday morning just hours before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to make another push for an elusive ceasefire
22 October 2024, 09:58 AM

Harris and Trump push for every vote with just 14 days to go

One of the tightest US election races of modern times enters its final, two-week stretch Tuesday, with Republican Donald Trump making a special pitch to Latino voters as Democratic rival Kamala Harris sits down for a national network interview.
22 October 2024, 07:06 AM

Hezbollah finance chief killed in Syria: Israeli army

The Israeli army said Monday that the latest commander responsible for funding the Lebanese Hezbollah group was "eliminated" in Syria.
22 October 2024, 05:06 AM

Putin hosts BRICS summit in Russia under shadow of Ukraine war

Russia wants the BRICS summit to showcase the rising clout of the non-Western world, but Moscow's partners from China, India, Brazil and the Arab world are urging President Vladimir Putin to find a way to end the war in Ukraine
22 October 2024, 03:58 AM

Shooting in Washington leaves 5 dead; 15-year-old boy in custody

Washington state authorities said on Monday that five people were killed in a shooting at a home near Seattle and that a 15-year-old boy is in custody for the killings
22 October 2024, 03:08 AM

Hurricane Oscar leaves six dead in Cuba: president

Hurricane Oscar left six people dead after hitting Cuba over the weekend during a major power blackout, President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced on Monday
22 October 2024, 02:24 AM

Lebanon state media reports 13 Israeli strikes on south Beirut

Lebanese state-run media reported 13 strikes on Monday evening on Beirut's southern suburbs, a main Hezbollah bastion, in one of the most intense nights of Israeli attacks in weeks
22 October 2024, 02:20 AM

Pakistan MPs get more power to appoint top judges

Pakistan’s government narrowly passed constitutional amendments yesterday giving lawmakers more power to appoint top judges, who have issued a series of recent decisions favouring opposition chief Imran Khan.
21 October 2024, 19:42 PM

Israeli strikes hit Hezbollah-linked finance network

Lebanese state media reported Israeli strikes Sunday on branches of a Hezbollah-linked financial association, including near the country’s only airport, after the Israeli military warned it would attack Al-Qard Al-Hassan’s branches.
21 October 2024, 19:20 PM

Moldova votes yes to joining EU by tiny margin

Moldova’s pro-Brussels President Maia Sandu said yesterday that her camp “won justly in an unjust struggle” in an EU referendum and first-round presidential elections marked by claims of Russian interference.
21 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Doctor, 6 migrant workers killed in India’s Kashmir

At least six migrant workers and a doctor were shot dead in India’s Kashmir region on Sunday night when militants opened fire near a tunnel construction site, officials said, days after a new government was formed in the territory.
21 October 2024, 18:00 PM

WHO to evacuate 1,000 Gazan women, children

Up to 1,000 women and children needing medical care will shortly be evacuated from Gaza to Europe, the head of the World Health Organization’s Europe branch said in comments published yesterday.
21 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Blinken back in ME to push for Gaza truce

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads back to the Middle East yesterday on a new push for an elusive Gaza ceasefire two weeks before US elections, seeing a new opportunity from Israel’s killing of Hamas’s leader.
21 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Power restored to half of Havana after blackout

Electricity has been restored to half of Havana, the Cuban capital’s power company reported yesterday, four days after the start of a nationwide blackout that the authorities have struggled to address.
21 October 2024, 18:00 PM

US wants end to conflict ‘for good’

The United States said yesterday that it was working on a formula to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah  “for good”, and that merely committing to a previous UN resolution would not be enough.
21 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Russian navy ships arrive in Myanmar for joint drills

The Russian ships will conduct "harbour phase" exercises, the newspaper said, without giving details.
21 October 2024, 05:47 AM