Experts blame air pollution for 135m premature deaths
SINGAPORE: Pollution from man-made emissions and other sources like wildfires have been linked to around 135 million premature deaths worldwide between 1980 and 2020, a Singapore university said on Monday. Weather phenomena like El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole worsened the effects of these pollutants by intensifying their concentration in the air, Singapore’s Nanyang […]
Israeli strike on UN school in Gaza leaves 40 dead
• UN says attacking, targeting its buildings against international law • US, other states call on Tel Aviv, Hamas to swiftly finalise truce deal • Ceasefire talks in Doha show no sign of breakthrough CAIRO: Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas […]
US presses for probe, says ground operation in Rafah not warranted
WASHINGTON: Urging Israel to conduct a thorough investigation into a tent city bombing and uphold its obligations under international humanitarian law, the US on Tuesday said it didn’t believe a major ground operation in Rafah was warranted. White House spokesperson John Kirby maintained that the Israeli strike that killed dozens of Palestinians in Rafah did […]
Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details
DUBAI: A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was travelling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometres (375 miles) northwest of […]
NDA’s show of strength in Varanasi after PM Modi files nomination papers
NEW DELHI: In a show strength, top leaders of BJP-led NDA, including Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, former Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu and LJP’s Chirag Paswan among others gathered outside the Varanasi collectorate as Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections 2024. After filing the nomination, Prime Minister […]
SC gives Arvind Kejriwal interim bail till June 1
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday gave Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail till June 1 for campaigning in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said Kejriwal, arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, will have to surrender and […]
Vote to save Constitution, protect democracy: Kharge
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday urged the people to exercise their franchise to “save the Constitution and protect democracy”, as the voting for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections gets underway. In a post on X, the Congress chief wrote, “Vote to save Constitution, vote to protect democracy. 11 Crore people […]
Russian rockets kill three, as rivals mark Orthodox Easter
KYIV: Russian strikes on the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Kharkiv killed three people and wounded at least a dozen more, officials said on Sunday. These latest attacks came as Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Russia celebrated Easter, and as Moscow said its forces had captured another village on the battlefield. “In Pokrovsk, rocket […]
Gaza protests against Israel reach Europe
PARIS: Student-led protests over the war in Gaza were widening in Europe on Friday as activists in France and Britain follow the lead of a campus demonstrations spreading in the US. Protesters in Paris blocked an entrance to elite university Sciences Po on Friday, refusing to back down after a tent “occupation” was broken up by police […]
50 more bodies found at hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis
• Gaza death toll nears 35,000 • 14 killed in occupied West Bank • Netanyahu vows to fight possible US sanctions GAZA: Health workers have uncovered at least 50 bodies of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at a hospital, in the southern city of Khan Younis. But while Israeli military said it was […]