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JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian man they said had tried to stab an officer during a home raid searching for weapons in east Jerusalem early on Monday. The man, identified by Palestinians as Mohammed al-Shaham, 21, was “neutralised” and died in an Israeli military hospital, police said. The man’s father, Ibrahim al-Shaham, said that his son was …

MOSCOW: Russia’s space agency on Monday unveiled for the first time a physical model of what a planned new Russian-built space station will look like, suggesting Moscow is serious about abandoning the International Space Station (ISS) and going it alone. Russia, in the throes of what some Kremlin hardliners believe is an historic rupture with the West sparked by sanctions …

NAIROBI: William Ruto was declared the victor of Kenya’s hard-fought presidential poll on Monday, but the outcome sparked a split in the election commission and some violent protests in his defeated rival’s strongholds. Ruto won with 50.49 percent of the vote on Aug 9, narrowly ahead of Raila Odinga on 48.85pc, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati announced …

LONDON: The accused attacker of British author Salman Rushdie was transformed by a trip to Lebanon in 2018, when he became more religious and less outgoing, his mother has said. Lebanese-born Silvana Fardos, of Fairview, New Jersey, described her 24-year-old son Hadi Matar as “a moody introvert” increasingly fixated with Islam after the visit to see his estranged father. “One …

Eleven men sentenced to life imprisonment in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case were released on Monday from a Godhra jail after the Gujarat government approved their application under its remission policy, reported The Indian Express. Gujarat Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Raj Kumar told the newspaper that the government considered their remission application as the convicts had served 14 years in jail as well …

Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Co, the investment firm controlled by billionaire Prince Alwa­leed Bin Talal, quietly invested more than $500 million in three major Russian energy companies between February and March, regulatory filings showed. By investing in Gazprom, Rosneft and Lukoil, Kingdom was likely seeking undervalued assets, but its move came as many Western nations imposed sanctions on Russian energy …

Police believe the son of the prime suspect in the killings of four Muslim men may have played a role in the murders, which have shaken the American Muslim community in New Mexico’s largest city. Cellphone data shows Shaheen Syed, 21, was in the same “general area” of Albuquerque as his father at the time of the August 5 killing of 25-year-old trucking entrepreneur …

RIYADH: Oil giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday unveiled record profits of $48.4 billion in the second quarter of 2022, after Russia’s war in Ukraine and a post-pandemic surge in demand sent crude prices soaring. Net income leapt 90 per cent year-on-year for the world’s biggest oil producer, which clocked its second straight quarterly record after announcing $39.5bn for first quarter. …

DUBAI: Large parts of the United Arab Emirates were hit by dust and sandstorms on Sunday as authorities urged caution on the roads and battened down for expected heavy rain. Homes and landmarks in major cities were caked in a fine layer of brown dirt and visibility plunged in the latest adverse weather following a series of choking dust storms …

WASHINGTON: Former Afghan security personnel with sensitive knowledge of US operations left behind by the American evacuation operation are vulnerable to recruitment or coercion by Russia, China and Iran, Republican lawmakers said on Sunday, noting that President Joe Biden’s administration failed to prioritise evacuating them. “This is especially true given reports that some former Afghan military personnel have fled to …