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SIDON: Three days of fighting in south Lebanon’s Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp have left at least 11 dead and dozens wounded, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Monday. Clashes broke out over the weekend between members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s secular Fatah movement and Islamist fighter based in the camp, Lebanon’s largest located in the coastal …

ISLAMABAD: The suicide attack that took place in Bajaur on Sunday, which killed dozens of people and left hundreds injured, has drawn strong condemnations from across the Muslim world. While the leadership of the Muslim nations as well as the heads of the Muslim world bodies condemned the attack and sympathised with the bereaved families, the European Union called the deadly weekend …

Angus Cloud, cast member of the HBO teen drama series Euphoria, died on Monday at age 25 just days after the death of his father, his family said in a statement. Cloud played Fezco, an intense drug dealer with a moral code, in the series starring Zendaya in the lead role of Rue Bennett. No specific cause of death was reported but the …

KYIV: A missile strike on a residential building in Ukraine killed six and wounded dozens on Monday, as Russia said it stepped up strikes against Ukrainian military facilities in response to attacks on its territory, including Moscow. Two missiles landed close to the centre of the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig just after 9:00am (0600 GMT), Ukrainian Interior Minister …

SYDNEY: The United States will rely on allies rather than a major expansion of its own forces to counter any Chinese military risk in the Pacific, a US general has said. Beijing enjoys “very clear” advantages in the region, said Major General Joseph Ryan, commander of the 12,000-strong 25th Infantry Division on Oahu, Hawaii. He cited China’s expanding military defences, …

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court came down hard on the Manipur police on Monday and demanded to see a complete break-up of the approximately 6,000 cases of murder, rape, arson, crimes against women, burning of villages, homes and places of worship the state government claimed to have registered during the ethnic clashes. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of …

At least 11 people are dead and 27 missing after heavy rains lashed Beijing, state media said on Tuesday, in downpours that have submerged roads and deluged neighbourhoods with mud. Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoon, had swept northwards through China since hitting southern Fujian province on Friday after first scything through the Philippines. Heavy rains began pummelling Beijing and its surrounding …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said Pakistan was ready to hold talks with its “neighbour” on serious issues as wars were not an option anymore. “We are prepared to talk to them, provided that the neighbour is serious to talk [on] serious matters … because war is no more an option,” he said in an apparent reference to India …

The Swedish government said on Tuesday it would present measures to protect its citizens amid growing concerns in both Sweden and Denmark that the incidents of the burning of the Holy Quran could lead to attacks. Separately, the country also made clear that it did not plan to make sweeping changes to freedom of speech laws, but at the same …

At least five people, including two police personnel, were killed in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India’s Haryana state, neighbouring capital New Delhi, on Monday, police officials told Reuters. The violence erupted when a Hindu religious procession passed through the Muslim-dominated Nuh region, located around 50 kilometres away from New Delhi. “The procession was meant to move from one temple …