WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden announced plans for the first military airdrop of food and supplies into Gaza on Friday, a day after the deaths of Palestinians waiting in line for aid cast a spotlight on the unfolding humanitarian disaster…
A top executive at private equity firm Njord Partners has banned his X (previously known as Twitter) account after an inquiry revealed that his firm had received Russian state contracts from entities controlled by sanctioned individuals, including a Vladimir Putin…
CAIRO: Gaza health authorities said more than 100 Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces as they waited for aid to arrive on Thursday, but Israel disputed the death toll, saying many were run over by trucks. At least 112…
DHAKA: At least 43 people were killed and several injured when a fire engulfed a seven-storey building in an upmarket district of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, on Thursday. The fire started in the popular restaurant before quickly spreading to the…
KINGSTOWN: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that the killing of more than 100 people seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza is a situation that requires an effective independent investigation. Also read: Putin warns of nuclear conflict if West’s intervention…
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir V. Putin said the West faced the prospect of nuclear conflict if it intervened more directly in the war in Ukraine, escalating his threats against Europe and the United States in his annual address to the…
Algeria has finally opened the third largest mosque in the world and the largest in Africa, ahead of the holy month of Ramazan, according to Al Jazeera. Due to political unrest in the country, the inauguration of the mosque took…
On the 16th day of the Delhi Chalo march, Haryana police continue to use violence against protesting farmers. Protests continue after farm leaders rejected the government’s proposal for new farm laws. Punjab is facing shortage of diesel and gas cylinders…
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled an executive order on Wednesday aimed at protecting American personal data by limiting its transfer to China, Russia and other countries, senior US officials said, citing national security concerns. The order, first reported by…
BERLIN/MOSCOW: Germany, Britain and other European countries said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine after France hinted at the possibility and the Kremlin warned that any such move would inevitably lead to conflict between…
UN: At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip – one quarter of the population – are one step away from starvation, a senior UN aid official told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, warning that widespread famine could be…
BHOPAL: Living in a slum in central India with her widowed mother and two young daughters, Nayantara Gupta says she owes her relative prosperity in recent years to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gupta, a…
NEW DELHI: Indian farmers on Monday (Feb 26) demanded that India leave the World Trade Organization (WTO), saying its policies were discriminatory against growers. Demonstrators burned effigies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the WTO to protest against capitalist…
Anti-Muslim hate speech in India rose 62 percent in the second half of 2023 compared to the first six months of the year, a Washington-based research group said on Monday, adding that the war between Israel and Gaza played a…
