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A FORMER Israeli army general has said his country’s actions in the occupied West Bank territory were similar to the “apartheid” under Nazi Germany. In an interview with an Israeli broadcaster Kan Radio on Sunday, Amiram Levin, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces said the IDF is beginning to be “complicit in war crimes”. He said these actions were …

WASHINGTON: The US chief of naval operations stepped down on Monday, leaving an unprecedented three branches of the country’s military without confirmed leaders due to a standoff with a single senator over Pentagon abortion policy. Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican, is stalling the approval of more than 300 US military nominees to protest Defence Department efforts to assist troops who …

Rescuers searched on Tuesday for people feared missing in floods and landslides that have killed at least 65 in India, including 11 who died in the collapse of a popular temple. Days of torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and destroyed bridges in the Himalayas. Flooding and landslides are common and cause widespread devastation during India’s treacherous monsoon season, but experts …

Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday on charges of racketeering and a string of election crimes after a sprawling, two-year probe into his efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden in the US state of Georgia. The case — relying on laws typically used to bring down mobsters — is the fourth targeting the 77-year-old Republican this year and could …

Two American tourists were found sleeping off a heavy night in the heights of Paris’ Eiffel Tower on Monday, after dodging security the night before, the monument’s operator said on Tuesday. Security guards roused the men “in the early morning” as they were making their rounds before the French landmark’s 9:00 am opening time, publicly-owned Eiffel Tower operator Sete said. …

Afghanistan’s Taliban government marked on Tuesday the second anniversary of their takeover of the country with celebrations and a public holiday, issuing a defiant statement commemorating their surge back to power. Flags of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — the name given to the country by its new rulers — fluttered at security checkpoints across the capital, which fell on …

TEHRAN: A shooting at a shrine in Iran’s south killed at least four people, less than a year after a similar attack on the same site. “Four people have been killed so far following a terrorist attack by two armed men on the holy shrine of Shah Cheragh” in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province, official news agency IRNA reported. One of …

GUAYAQUIL: Ecuador transferred a powerful gang leader, accused of threatening a presidential candidate before he was slain, to a maximum security prison via a massive military and police operation on Saturday. At dawn, around 4,000 heavily armed agents entered a prison in Guayaquil, south-western Ecuador, where Jose Adolfo Macias, the head of a powerful gang, has been held since 2011. …

HAIFA: Members of Israel’s Arab minority fear they will bear the brunt of the hard-right government’s judicial overhaul, but have remained largely on the margins of a raging debate over the sweeping changes. Israelis have rallied weekly since the controversial reform package was announced in January by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, dubbed “the worst ever” by Samira Kanaan …

KYIV: Seven people, including a newborn baby, her 12-year-old brother and their parents, were killed on Sunday by Russian shelling in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, officials said. Also among the victims was a Christian pastor, officials said, adding that another 13 people received injuries. The three adults and two children were killed in the village of Shyroka Balka, …