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Rioters ram-raided the home of a Paris suburb mayor, set the car alight and launched fireworks at his wife and young children as they fled during a fifth night of nationwide unrest over Tuesday’s police shooting of a teen of North African descent. Vincent Jeanbrun, 39, the centre-right mayor of the southern suburb of L’Hay-les-Roses, was at the town hall when his …

DAMASCUS: Israel carried out air strikes in Syria near the government-held city of Homs, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Sunday quoting a military source. “The Israeli enemy carried out air strikes coming from northeast Beirut, targeting some points in the vicinity of the city of Homs,” SANA said, quoting the source. During more than a decade of war in Syria, Israel has …

CAIRO: Hannibal Qadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, has been moved from a Lebanese prison to hospital in “critical condition”, Dubai-based Al-Hadath TV reported on Sunday. Qadhafi went on a hunger strike last month in protest at his incarceration without trial since 2015. Citing unidentified sources, Al-Hadath said he had suffered a sharp drop in his blood sugar level. Qadhafi has been charged …

PARIS: An Iranian appeals court has jailed for five years prominent activist and journalist Golrokh Iraee who has been held since her arrest at the onset of a protest movement, supporters said Sunday. Iraee had refused to take part in the appeals court hearing over her sentence for taking part in illegal gatherings and violating national security, saying she did …

KHARTOUM: Fierce fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition threatened the rising number of displaced. Khartoum residents said they were shaken awake by warplanes and “violent fighting” between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Witnesses told AFP a police base and the …

MUMBAI: India’s annual monsoon covered the entire country on Sunday, six days earlier than usual, the state-run weather office said, but rain totals are 10 per cent below average so far this season. The monsoon — the lifeblood of India’s $3 trillion economy — delivers much-needed water to farms and restocks reservoirs and aquifers. It also brings relief from the …

WASHINGTON: The United States played a key behind-the-scenes role to help Pakistan secure a $3 billion bailout package with the Interna­tional Monetary Fund (IMF), diplomatic sources told Dawn. The recent staff-level agreement (SLA) came after an eight-month delay in releasing funds from a 2019, $6 billion loan. “The United States supported Pakistan throughout the process but also insisted that they implemented the reforms …

France’s mayors have called on members of the public and elected officials to gather at town halls across the country on Monday in a show of mass opposition to violent protests that have dragged on for nearly a week. The government has been battling nightly riots and looting ever since 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead by a police officer during a …

Pope Francis said the desecration of the Holy Quran has made him angry and disgusted, and that he condemned and rejected permitting the act as a form of freedom of speech. The pope’s comments come after a man desecrated the Holy Quran in Sweden’s capital Stockholm last week, resulting in strong condemnation from several states, including Turkiye whose backing Sweden needs to …