International

UNITED NATIONS: “A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in front of our eyes,” UN Secretary General António Guterres warned on Saturday as another night of heavy bombing flattened Gaza and virtually cut it off from the outside world. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution by 120 to 14 votes calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” in Gaza. But even …

JERUSALEM: Hours after Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that the near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza amid Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Palestinian territory risks providing cover for mass atrocities, the Jewish state army warned the residents of the besieged enclave on Saturday that the area was now a “battlefield”. “To the residents of the Gaza Strip: The Gaza governorate (Gaza City) has …

At least one person was killed and several were injured in a series of explosions at a convention centre in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Sunday where a Christian group was holding a prayer meeting. The incident took place during a Jehovah’s Witnesses convention at the centre in Kalamassery, about 10 kilometres (6.21 miles) northeast of Kochi. The …

Opening Ceremony of Professor Ishfaq Ahmad’s Book The Perfect Human” at the University of Texas By: Raja Zahid A Khanzada Texas, USA: The Main Library of the University of Texas Arlington hosted a book launch event for “The Perfect Human: Muhammad (PBUH), the Last Prophet and Messenger of God,” authored by Professor Ishfaq Ahmad. The event’s chief guest was Dr. …

Cleared of False Charges: Tahir Javed’s Cabinet Removal Sparks Embarrassment in Pakistan, Celebrations in Indian Community By: Raja zahid A Khanzada Dallas: False Allegations Against Prominent Pakistani American Democratic Leader Tahir Javed Lead to Embarrassment and Reversal of Cabinet Decision” The accusations of criminal convictions against the esteemed Pakistani American Democratic leader, Tahir Javed, were revealed to be completely baseless …

WASHINGTON: Two US fighter jets have struck military infrastructure in eastern Syria, which were linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its regional proxies, the Pentagon said on Friday. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said the strikes were in response to recent attacks on US bases in “Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups.” The US targets included a …

GENEVA: A UN committee on racism voiced concern on Friday about a “sharp increase in racist hate speech and dehumanisation” directed at Palestinians by Israelis, including senior officials, since the Oct 7. Since the start of the unrest there have been a growing number of reports of both anti-semitic and Islamophobic incidents in places such as the United States and …

UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday that calls for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” in Gaza by 120 to 14 votes, with 45 abstentions. The United States was among the 14 countries that opposed the resolution. Canada, however, proposed an amendment condemning Hamas for the Oct 7 attacks, but failed to get the …

JERUSALEM: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Friday the death toll given by the health ministry in Gaza had proved to be “credible”, referring to a US statement that raised doubts about figures given by the Palestinian groupo. “In the past, the five, six cycles of conflict in Gaza Strip, these figures were considered as credible and no …

The suspect in a mass shooting that killed 18 people in the US state of Maine has been found dead, the state’s governor said on Friday, ending a two-day manhunt that mobilised hundreds of law enforcement agents and set jittery residents of the northeastern state on edge. Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army reservist, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and his body was discovered …