InShort: Suicide bombing kills Syria police officer
AFP : A suicide attack on Friday at a security checkpoint in Syria’s east killed one police officer, state media said, blaming the bombing on...
International
InShort: Female political prisoners face abuse in Belarus
AP : Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with a fear and anguish that...
InShort: Menendez’s release denied decades later
BBC : Lyle Menendez has been denied parole one day after his brother Erik was similarly blocked from being freed from prison after more than...
Imran Khan gets bail
Arab News : Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to former prime minister Imran Khan in eight cases linked to riots in 2023 when...
‘Ukraine land concessions a Putin’s trap’
BBC : The top diplomat of the European Union (EU) has warned against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia as part of a...
Thaksin cleared of royal insult
AFP : Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared Friday of royal defamation charges, relieving a threat to his embattled political dynasty which has...
25 injured in Pakistan fireworks blast
AP : An explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Thursday injured at least 25 people, some of...
Asia’s richest man drives India’s Russian oil imports
Aljazeera : United States President Donald Trump’s additional 25 percent tariff on India for its imports from Russia, saying it is helping fuel Russia’s war...
Ex-Sri Lanka president Ranil arrested
BBC : Sri Lanka’s former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of funds, police have said. The charge relates...
InShort: Meta signs $10B cloud deal with Google
Reuters : Google has struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than $10 billion, the search giant’s second big agreement recently...
InShort: Rope breaks on China bridge site 7 dead, 9 missing
AFP : Seven people were killed and 9 others were missing after a rope broke at a bridge under construction in northwest China on Friday....