JERUSALEM: A Jewish settler fatally shot a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Palestinian officials said. A number of Jewish settlers carrying pistols and one with a rifle had approached the village of Qrawat Bani Hassan and one fired a shot, killing 27-year-old Mothqal Rayyan, a Palestinian witness said. According to the witness, the Israeli military arrived but …

DHAKA: Bangladesh said on Saturday it had withdrawn two new school textbooks after protests from some groups incensed by a curriculum overhaul to recognise transgender identities, same-sex relationships and secular science. Thousands have demonstrated in the capital Dhaka since last month demanding that the National Curri­culum and Textbook Board (NCTB) scrap the changes to the books, published for students aged …

LONDON: UK police have arrested three people on suspicion of violent disorder during an anti-immigration demonstration by far-right protesters outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers near Liverpool. The protest came amid heightened tensions as record numbers of migrants are crossing the Channel in small boats, prompting the interior ministry to come up with a controversial plan to send …

JOHANNESBURG: One of South Africa’s hottest rap artists, Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the southeastern city of Durban, his family said on Saturday. The 35-year-old won multiple South African awards, was nominated several times for a Black Entertainment Television (BET) Award in the United States, and was once nominated for an MTV …

RESIDENTS of India-held Kashmir experienced more internet shutdowns and restrictions than any other region in 2022, including Iran and Russia, according to a new report. More than a fifth of all web blackouts took place in held Kashmir, according to Surfshark, a virtual private network company headquartered in Lithuania, the Voice of America reported. The VPN company’s global report on …

KYIV: Ukraine has said that Russia had launched a major new wave of aerial attacks, as President Joe Biden announced he would mark one year since the invasion by visiting Kyiv’s neighbour Poland. Strikes were reported from the eastern region of Kharkiv to the western region of Ivano-Frankivsk, a day after President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to Brussels to lobby EU …

UNITED NATIONS: Pak­­istan has warned that some developing countries are facing an imminent threat of economic collapse under the burden of mounting debt. Pakistan’s Deputy Perm­anent Representative to the UN Mohammad Aamir Khan on Friday said developing countries should be provided with fiscal reso­urces along with actions to lessen borrowing cost. He made these remarks while addressing the 61st session …

A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Canada on Saturday, the second such incident in North American skies since the dramatic downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a joint US-Canadian military operation led to the takedown of the object, the latest in a series of mysterious air intrusions. …

Rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after an earthquake devastated Turkiye and Syria and killed more than 28,000. UN relief chief Martin Griffiths said he expected the death toll to at least double after he arrived in southern Turkiye on Saturday to assess the quake’s damage. Tens of thousands …

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has directed the secretaries of ministries of interior and defence to collect fresh reports from internment centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in cases of missing persons. The two-judge bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto also summoned the home secretary for not signing a report of the provincial task force (PTF) for missing persons. It noted …