Category: World

FARASIN: Israeli government  has  threatened to destroy Ahmed Amarneh’s home, built inside a cave with a wooden door opening onto cushion-lined rooms, in the foothills overlooking Farasin. However, this is not the first Palestinian residence in the occupied West Bank to receive a demolition notice from Israel. But it may be the first built inside […]

KHARTOUM: The trial of Sudan’s ousted ex-president Omar al-Bashir was delayed Monday at the request of his defence, a prosecution lawyer said. The trial of Bashir over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago, as well as of 27 other defendants, opened with a brief hearing in July. The […]

TAIPEI: US Health Secretary Alex Azar  met Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in what is the highest level visit from a US official since it switched diplomatic recognition from the island to China in 1979, a trip that Beijing has condemned. Health Secretary Alex Azar is in Taipei for a three-day visit to promote shared […]

BEIRUT: Two cabinet members of Lebanon’s government resigned from their posts over a deadly blast that has caught the ire of the people, as battles continued between police and citizens in the capital for a second day. As hopes faded of finding any survivors of Tuesday’s explosion, information minister Manal Abdel Samad and environment minister […]

BEIRUT: The huge chemical explosion that hit Beirut’s port, devastating large parts of the Lebanese capital and claiming over 150 lives, left a 43-metre (141 foot) deep crater, a security official said on Sunday. The blast on  Tuesday, which was felt across the county and as far as the island of Cyprus, was recorded by […]

A past biographer who worked closely with the late Princess Diana has come out in support of Meghan Markle and has dubbed her time in the royal family to be ‘immensely frustrating’. Morton is best known for his autobiography, Diana: Her True Story and with his expertise into the life of the beloved royal, he has come […]

A traditional Afghan council concluded on Sunday with hundreds of delegates agreeing to free 400 Taliban members, paving the way for an early start to negotiations between Afghanistan’s warring sides. The declaration read out in both of Afghanistan’s official languages of Pashto and Farsi calls for an immediate start to negotiations and cease fire. The […]

BEIRUT: Lebanese riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators trying to break through a barrier to get to the parliament building in Beirut on Saturday and shots were heard as protests over this week’s devastating explosion grew. Dozens of protesters broke into the foreign ministry where they burnt a framed portrait of President Michel Aoun, representative of […]

Thousands of Israelis rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Saturday as anger mounted over corruption allegations and his handling of the coronavirus crisis. “Your time is up”, read the giant letters projected on to a building at the protest site, as demonstrators waved Israeli flags and called on Netanyahu to resign […]