GREEN BAY (Wisconsin): Donald Trump called immigrants illegally in the United States “animals” and “not human” in a speech in Michigan on Tuesday, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail. The Republican presidential candidate, appearing with several law enforcement officers, described in detail several criminal cases involving suspects in the country illegally …

ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish party on Wednesday said the country’s election authority had reinstated a mayoral election winner in the eastern city of Van, after clashes over the annulment of his victory. The DEM party’s Abdullah Zeydan garnered more than 55 per cent of the vote in Van in local elections on Sunday. But the regional electoral commission claimed he was …

GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council will consider on Friday a draft resolution moved by Pakistan calling for an arms embargo on Israel, citing the “plausible risk of genocide in Gaza”. If the draft resolution is adopted, it would mark the first time that the United Nations’ top rights body has taken a position on the war raging in Gaza. …

WASHINGTON: The White House announced on Tuesday it is directing Nasa to create a unified time standard for the Moon and other celestial bodies, as governments and private companies increasingly compete in space. With the United States keen to set international norms beyond Earth’s orbit, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) instructed the US space agency …

LOS ANGELES: Newly relea­sed video shows US police shooting dead a kidnapped teenage girl they had been tasked with rescuing, in a chaotic incident on a busy California highway. Savannah Graziano, 15, was gunned down as one deputy called her away from her gun-toting father, who had killed her mother a day earlier and abducted his daughter. The episode unfolded …

WASHINGTON: The White House converted an Iftar-dinner into a meeting on Tuesday night to appease American Musl­­im leaders frustrated with the administration’s Gaza policy. Originally slated as a dinner, the event was reshaped into a meeting format after a number of Muslim leaders declined the invitation, while others raised concerns over the situation in Gaza. CNN reported that the Iftar-dinner was changed to …

UNITED NATIONS: Palestine on Tuesday officially revived their bid for a full member state in the United Nations — a process with an uncertain outcome but one they say is necessary in the face of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. The Palestinians, who have had observer status at the world body since 2012, have lobbied for years to gain full membership, …

A helicopter plucked six miners to safety from a Taiwan quarry on Thursday as rescuers worked to free scores of people trapped in highway tunnels after the island’s biggest earthquake in a quarter of a century. Nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in Wednesday’s magnitude-7.4 quake, but strict building regulations and widespread public disaster awareness appear to have …

At least five Iranian security personnel have been killed in two attacks claimed by a militant group in the Sistan-Baluchistan province, state media reported on Thursday. “Five member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the police died as martyrs during two night-time terrorist attacks against a Guards base in Rask and a police post in Chabahar,” Majid Mirahmadi, vice …

PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan has expressed concern over the “non-consideration” of judges from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for their elevation to the Supreme Court. A PHC official on Wednesday confirmed that Justice Khan had written to Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa. In the four-page letter, Justice Khan, who is retiring on April 14, states, “I …