Plan for Europe’s huge new particle collider takes shape
PARIS: Europe’s CERN laboratory revealed more details on Monday about its plans for a huge new particle accelerator that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ramping up efforts to uncover the underlying secrets of the universe. If approved, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) would start smashing its first particles together around the middle of […]
‘Unprecedented catastrophe’ in Chile as wildfires kill 51
VIA MAR: Chileans on Sunday feared a rise in the death toll from wildfires blazing across the South American country that have already killed at least 51 people, leaving bodies in the street and homes gutted. Authorities warned of “complicated” conditions as they battled fires in the coastal tourist region of Valparaiso amid an intense […]
Israel returns 100 bodies to Gaza authorities
• Bodies included corpses that had been dug up by Israeli forces • Health officials confirmed remains included ‘full bodies, half bodies and body parts’ DOHA: Several unidentified Palestinians were laid to rest at a mass burial in Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli authorities handed over bodies they had been holding in Israel. Many onlookers […]
Israeli forces storm West Bank hospital in disguise
JENIN: Israeli forces disguised as medical staff and civilians burst into a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and shot three Palestinians dead, one of whom was lying paralysed in bed. A border police counter-terrorism unit and a unit from the internal security forces, known as the Shin Bet, entered Ibn Sina hospital […]
India Logs 133 Fresh Covid-19 Cases
New Delhi, Jan 31: India saw a single-day rise of 133 Covid cases, while the number of active cases stood at 1,389, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday. Two deaths — one each from Gujarat and Maharashtra — have been reported in 24 hours, according to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am. The […]
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan, former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Quresh sentenced to 10 years in prison in cipher case
Islamabad: Former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years each in prison in the cipher case. The decision was announced by special court Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain during the hearing of the case held at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf […]
No rest for Gaza dead with swift burials
GAZA STRIP: Even the dead are not spared by the Israeli invaders in Gaza, with bodies dug up by troops and hurried burials happening in hospitals and even a school. In Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah district, shrouded corpses of Palestinians torn from their graves lay atop muddied earth. Israel’s military had bulldozed the site and exhumed […]
Three US troops killed in Jordan, Biden vows reprisal
Three US service members were killed and dozens wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on US forces stationed in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden and US officials said on Sunday. Biden blamed Iran-backed groups for the attack, the first deadly strike against US forces since the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted in […]
Israel kills 20 Palestinians in strike on queue in Gaza
GAZA STRIP: Authorities in Gaza Strip said on Thursday that Israeli forces had killed 20 people waiting for humanitarian aid to be distributed, as Israel pressed its blistering assault in the besieged territory. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said the attack occurred on the outskirts of Gaza City, in the north of the territory, […]
UN chief urges world to reject refusal of two states
UNITED NATIONS: UN chief António Guterres urged world leaders on Tuesday to reject any refusal of a two-state solution in Palestine, during an urgent UN Security Council meeting in New York. He reiterated his call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine conflict, stating, “I renew my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” and […]