AFP : CIA Director Bill Burns and UK MI6 chief Richard Moore warned on Saturday that the world order was...
AFP : Ukraine’s security services said Saturday they had struck a Russian ammunition factory in a border region, as Moscow’s...
Agency : A Pakistani man living in Canada has been arrested on charges of plotting to carry out an attack on Jews in New York City, the US Justice Department said Friday.Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested on Wednesday on charges filed in the United States, the department said.“The defendant is alleged to have planned a terrorist attack in New York City around October 7 of this year with the stated goal of slaughtering, in the...
Deutsche Welle : A bomb threat forced a flight operated by Vistara Airlines to make an emergency landing in the city of Erzurum, Turkey on Friday, but the threat turned out to be false, according to the local governor.The flight UK27 operated by India’s Vistara Airlines was heading from the city of Mumbai to Frankfurt in Germany. It had 234 passengers and 13 crew on board.Those on board were evacuated, said Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu.A piece of paper with the...
AFP : A national memorial to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will be located in London’s St James’s Park, which holds...
AFP : Joe Biden’s son Hunter pleaded guilty in a tax evasion trial on Thursday, without reaching the deal he...
AFP : The closely fought battleground state of North Carolina was expected to distribute around 130,000 absentee voting slips, with a presidential debate — the next likely campaign inflection point — set for next week.Early in-person voting will start as soon as September 20 in some states.North Carolina is among a handful of swing states that Harris and Trump have been crisscrossing as they embark on the most intense phase of a White House race expected to be decided by...
Al Jazeera : Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday reinstated amendments made to the country’s accountability law two years ago, overturning...
Al Jazeera : Super Typhoon Yagi has made landfall on the Chinese island province of Hainan, state media reported, after more than 400,000 people were forced to evacuate.The meteorological service in heavily populated Hainan said on Friday that Yagi, which was earlier packing maximum sustained winds of 245km/h (152mph) near its centre, hit the province’s Wenchang city at about 4:20pm (08:20 GMT).Yagi registers as the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024, after Category 5 Atlantic Hurricane Beryl, and the...
News Desk : At least 19 civilians were killed in Myanmar junta airstrikes on an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp and a town near the China border in Shan State.The attacks, which took place late Thursday night and early Friday, targeted the town of Namhkam and the Bangkok IDP camp.The junta is battling widespread opposition to its 2021 coup and its soldiers are accused of bloody rampages and using air and artillery strikes to punish civilian communities.“They bombed at two...
Times of India : Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said India is a “peace-loving nation” but the armed forces need to be “prepared for war in order to preserve peace.”Speaking at the maiden Joint Commanders’ Conference in Lucknow on the second and final day of the apex-level military leadership meeting, Singh commended the armed forces for their invaluable contribution in safeguarding national interests and advancing the vision of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat,” and appreciated the efforts being undertaken for furthering...
Al Jazeera : The Kremlin has accused the United States of applying unacceptable pressure on Russian media after Washington announced...