World
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the go-ahead Friday for a new round of talks on a Gaza ceasefire, a day after the world's top court ordered Israel to ensure aid reaches desperate civilians.But despite a binding UN Security Council resolution earlier this week demanding an "im...
One thought lingers all day in the mind of Diana Ruiz: How will the Cuban mother feed her 6-year-old son, a dilemma faced by parents across an island hit by blackouts and food shortages."The first thing I say when I get out of bed is, what am I going to give my son to eat? And when I go to bed,...
The Palestine Red Crescent said five people were killed and dozens wounded by gunfire and a stampede during an aid delivery Saturday in Gaza, where famine is looming.AFP video footage shows a convoy of trucks moving quickly past burning debris near the distribution point in pre-dawn darkness as peop...
Sports,Football
Arsenal travel to Manchester City on Sunday seeking to complete a rare double over Pep Guardiola's men in a match that could prove decisive in the three-way Premier League title race.Liverpool can move three points clear of current leaders Arsenal and four ahead of City if they beat Brighton at ...
Business & Commerce
China has said it would continue to support Sri Lanka, as the crisis-hit island nation's prime minister on Saturday wrapped up a visit to Beijing to try to finalise a debt restructuring deal.Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena arrived in China on Monday for a visit that included ...
Armenian banks on Friday said they would stop processing transactions made by Russian Mir payment cards due to Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.In September 2022, the US Treasury Department threatened foreign banks with secondary sanctions for servicing Mir cards, a Ru...
World,Front Page
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world's top court. ordered Israel Thursday to "ensure urgent humanitarian assistance" reaches Gazans, as warnings multiplied of imminent famine after nearly six months of relentless conflict.Heavy fighting and sustained bombardment again ro...
An Israeli air strike on Syria's Aleppo province killed at least 42 people, including 36 Syrian soldiers on Friday, according to a war monitor, which added that Hezbollah weapons depots were located in the area.The Israeli attack targeted an area "near rockets depots belonging to Lebanese g...
World,Back Page
Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Friday said its profits more than doubled in 2023, a year that saw the company defy US sanctions with the release of a high-end smartphone.Last year, the Shenzhen-based firm generated a profit of 87 billion yuan ($12 billion), more than double 2022’s 35.6 billio...
Kicked out of other prayer services, members of Bangladesh’s transgender hijra community have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority nation with the promise of worship without discrimination.The humble structure — a single-room shed with walls and a roof clad in tin —...
A Ukrainian energy provider said Friday that three thermal power plants had been damaged in an overnight barrage of Russian missiles and drones, the latest aerial assault to target Ukraine's critical infrastructure."The occupants attacked three DTEK thermal power plants. Equipment was sever...
Chinese contractors have halted construction on two major dam projects in Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver this week, a provincial official told AFP on Friday. The companies have demanded that Pakistan authorities come up with new security plans be...
Entertainment & Glomour
You're not just getting older. Song lyrics really are becoming simpler and more repetitive, according to a study published on Thursday.Lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the last 40 years, the study found, reinforcing the opinions of cranky ageing music fans everywhere.A...
Kylian Mbappe is set to sample the fiercest rivalry in French football for the final time before his expected departure at the end of the season as Paris Saint-Germain make the trip to Marseille on Sunday.There is no love lost between the two biggest clubs in France, even if Marseille have struggled...
La Liga leaders Real Madrid host Athletic Bilbao on Sunday as the Spanish top flight ramps up for an exciting end to the season.Madrid have a firm grip on the title race after shaking free of Catalan minnows Girona before the international break, but Ernesto Valverde's high-flying Athletic will ...
French inflation eased further in March as food, tobacco and energy prices slowed, official data showed Friday, fuelling hopes of interest rate cuts in coming months.The annual rate fell to 2.3 percent, down from 3.0 percent in February, according to prtovisional figures from the INSEE statistics in...
Battles and bombardment pounded the Gaza Strip on Thursday, after Washington said Israel agreed to reschedule cancelled talks with tensions worsening between the allies. United States criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has mounted over Gaza's civilian death toll, dire fo...
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement on Wednesday announced the deaths of eight of its members after a day of cross-border fire with Israel that left at least 16 people dead.Hezbollah said it had fired a barrage of rockets into northern Israel after its neighbour carried out a deadly strike ...
Official campaigning for South Korea's upcoming general election kicked off Thursday, with President Yoon Suk Yeol's ruling party fighting to win back a parliamentary majority and thwart opposition attempts to derail his conservative agenda.Surrounded by cheering supporters, the leaders of t...
Wandering among the ruins, Svitlana Zavaly was searching desperately for anything that could be salvaged from the rubble of her home destroyed by a Russian bomb in north-east Ukraine."We've got nothing left," said the 67-year-old resident of the village of Velyka Pysarivka that lies ju...
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