World
Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler called for immediate ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon at a joint Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit that will renew calls for a Palestinian state on Monday.Arab and Muslim leaders gathered in Riyadh, more than a year into the Israel-Hamas war...
Sports,Football
La Liga leaders Barcelona fell to a 1-0 defeat at Real Sociedad on Sunday as they had a Robert Lewandowski goal controversially disallowed, with coach Hansi Flick labelling the decision a "big mistake".Earlier Julian Alvarez earned Atletico Madrid a 1-0 win at Mallorca to take the Rojiblan...
Pedro Neto dealt a fresh blow to spluttering Arsenal's Premier League title challenge as the Chelsea winger's superb strike rescued a 1-1 draw in the London derby on Sunday.Mikel Arteta's side had taken the lead through Gabriel Martinelli's second-half goal at Stamford Bridge.But Net...
Gaza's civil defence agency on Sunday said 30 people, including 13 children, were killed in Israeli strikes on two houses in the north of the Palestinian territory.Besides, Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 12 people including three children in the village of ...
Two Saudi military personnel have been killed in an attack in Yemen, Saudi state media said Saturday, reporting that the assailant was "affiliated with" Yemen's defence ministry."An officer and a non-commissioned officer were martyred and an officer was injured as a result of a tr...
Indian troops on Sunday were battling with gunmen in Kashmir with one suspected rebel killed, the army said, the latest violence in the long-running insurgency in the disputed Muslim-majority territory.Police said two separate gunfights were taking place in the Himalayan region, with fighting report...
Mauritius began voting on Sunday in a close-fought election race that has been clouded by a wire-tapping scandal in a nation usually touted as one of Africa's most stable and prosperous democracies.Campaigning has been tense, and police have been deployed at polling stations to ensure security, ...
Tens of thousands of people marched Saturday in Valencia to voice their anger at the authorities' handling of deadly floods.Thousands also marched in other Spanish cities, but the Valencia regional authorities put the turnout in the regional capital at 130,000.Some protesters shouted "Murde...
Arab and Muslim leaders have begun arriving in Saudi Arabia for a summit scheduled for Monday that will focus on Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon, Saudi state media said.The Saudi foreign ministry announced the summit in late October during the first meeting of an "international alliance&q...
Business & Commerce
Some Asian countries stand to gain if US president-elect Donald Trump pushes ahead with his promised massive tariffs on China and triggers a new wave of factory relocations to the rest of the region.But a trade war between the world's biggest economies would also destabilise markets everywhere, ...
World,Back Page
Women in Afghanistan are not forbidden from speaking to each other, the Taliban government's morality ministry told AFP on Saturday, denying recent media reports of a ban.Afghan media based outside the country and international outlets have in recent weeks reported a ban on women hearing other w...
Famine is looming in the northern Gaza Strip amid increased hostilities and a near-halt in food aid, a UN-backed assessment said Saturday.The alert from the Famine Review Committee warned of "an imminent and substantial likelihood of famine occurring, due to the rapidly deteriorating situation ...
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrived Saturday in Kyiv to reassure Ukraine of Europe's backing in the first visit by a top Brussels official after Donald Trump's poll win.The volatile Republican's victory in the United States election has set nerves jangling in Ukraine and Europe...
Incessant Israeli attacks on Gaza kill at least 26 Palestinians from north to south since dawn, including another bombing of the southern al-Mawasi “safe zone” in which nine people died and many others were wounded, reports Al-Jazeera.AFP from Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories, reports...
A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometres (more than five miles) into the sky, days after it killed nine people and forced thousands of locals to evacuate.Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703-metre (5,587-foot) twin-peaked volcano on the tourist...
National,Back Page
South Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea in a show of force after North Korea's recent salvo of missile launches, Seoul said Friday.The nuclear-armed North had test-fired what it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as well as a n...
World,Front Page
Prince William has described the past year in which his wife Catherine and his father, Britain's head of state King Charles III, each battled cancer as "brutal" and probably the "hardest" of his life.The heir to the British throne was speaking to reporters on Thursday a...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for meetings of APEC and the G20, Beijing's foreign ministry said Friday.Xi will go to Lima from November 13 to 17 and Rio de Janeiro from November 17to 21, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement.In Peru...
Myanmar's conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday, as the country's civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production."Rakhine's economy has stopped functioning," a new report from the UN Development Programme said, proj...
Thousands of people were urged to flee an out-of-control wildfire burning around communities near Los Angeles on Thursday, with dozens of homes already lost to the fast-moving flames.Fierce seasonal winds were casting embers up to three miles (five kilometers)from the seat of the fire around Camaril...
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