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UN rights body demands Israel be held accountable for possible war crimes

Geneva: The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and...

McDonald’s buys all 225 of Israeli franchise restaurants after boycotts

Washington: McDonald’s has said it will buy its 30-year-old Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000...

Russia downs dozens of drones as Kremlin warns NATO over Ukraine

Moscow: Russia has downed 53 Ukrainian drones, the majority of which targeted the southern Rostov region, the Ministry of Defence said, as the Kremlin...

LinkedIn introduces ‘Live Event Ads’ to help firms build brand awareness

New Delhi: Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Thursday introduced a new global advertisement format ‘Live Event Ads’ to help companies increase event registrations, build...

US election: Trump leads Biden in 6 of 7 battleground states

Washington: Ahead of the upcoming US election scheduled for November, President Joe Biden is trailing behind his main opponent Donald Trump in six of...

Tesla to search for sites in India to set up $2-3 billion EV plant: Report

New Delhi: After the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government approved a new electric vehicle (EV) policy to attract investments in the EV space by...

Maldives still considers India as a friend: Minister

Male: The Maldives still considers India a friend, the tourism-dependent country’s economic minister has said while defending President Mohamed Muizzu’s stand against the presence...

UN expert: Israel ‘intentionally killed’ aid workers to continue starvation of Gazans

Beirut: The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has “intentionally killed” aid...

Biden, Trump win presidential primaries in four more states

Washington: US President Joe Biden and his Republican rival and predecessor Donald Trump have easily won their presidential primaries in four more states as...

About 10 million people at risk of slipping into poverty in Pakistan: World Bank

Islamabad: The World Bank has painted a grim economic picture of Pakistan in its biannual report, cautioning that over 10 million more people are...

Israelis rally in largest anti-govt protest since war in Gaza began

Jerusalem: Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered outside the parliament building in Jerusalem on Sunday in the largest anti-government demonstration since the country went...

Tokshakhana case: Pak court suspends 14-yr jail term of Imran Khan, his wife

Islamabad: A Pakistani High Court on April 1 suspended the 14-year sentence given to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi...

Elon Musk says there could be around 20 pc chances of AI destroying humanity

New Delhi: Elon Musk recently talked about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) at a Great AI Debate" seminar at the four-day Abundance Summit...

US approves additional bombs, warplanes sales to Israel

Washington: Amid escalating tensions and concerns over potential military actions in southern Gaza, the Biden administration has quietly sanctioned the transfer of billions of...

Over 400 Palestinians killed in Israel’s siege on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital

Gaza: Gaza’s media office said more than 400 people – patients, war-displaced and healthcare staff – have been killed in Israeli attacks during 13-day...

Iran celebrates 45th anniversary of Islamic Republic’s establishment

Tehran: Iran celebrated the 45th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic on Sunday, with different governmental bodies renewing their pledge to protect...

UNRWA chief urges Israel to allow food delivery to Gaza amid warnings of famine

New York: Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has urged Israel to allow the organisation’s...

Russia vetoes UN resolution on North Korea sanctions amid Ukraine war

United Nations: Russia exercised its veto power at the United Nations, blocking a resolution aimed at renewing an independent panel of experts tasked with...

US techies accuse TCS of ‘illegally’ firing them, shifting work to ‘lower-paid Indian immigrants’

New Delhi: Tata Consultancy Services found themselves at the centre of a row in the US with American workers alleging that the company “illegally...

World warns Israel to obey ICJ on Gaza aid as Netanyahu plans Rafah assault

Doha: Countries have called for Israel to obey an International Court of Justice order to allow the unimpeded delivery of aid into Gaza, where...

Palestinian Christians barred from Jerusalem’s Old City at Easter

Jerusalem: As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter, Palestinians in the land that birthed the religion are facing severe restrictions on entering...

Artifact, the AI powered news app, isn’t dead after all

New Delhi: Artifact, an AI-powered news aggregation app is here to stay, at least for a while. Developed by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and...

Why drinking water from plastic bottle could be harmful

New Delhi: A recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has caught the eyes of many in the medical...

UN expert says she faces threats after Israel-Gaza genocide report

Gaza: A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in its war on...

‘Palestinians have been denied their homeland’: EAM Jaishankar

Kuala Lumpur: At a time when India has reiterated its two-state solution for the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that...

Russia says it is hard to believe Islamic State could have launched Moscow attack

Moscow: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that it was “extremely hard to believe” that Islamic State would have had the...

India’s Disaster Management Authority head appointed UN Asst Secretary-General

New Delhi: Kamal Kishore, the head of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), has been appointed UN Assistant Secretary-General with the disaster risk reduction...

Julian Assange faces further wait over extradition ruling

London: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces a further wait to find out whether he can bring an appeal against his extradition to the US,...

Oversight Board asks Meta to remove restriction on Arabic word ‘shaheed’

New Delhi: Meta’s oversight board has asked the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word “shaheed”, roughly translated as “martyr” in...

China assures Sri Lanka of support in debt restructuring

Colombo: Chinese Premier Li Qiang has assured his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena of Beijing’s support to Colombo’s debt restructuring process as the island...

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