World
A three-person Chinese crew returned to Earth early Monday after more than six months aboard the Tiangong space station, state news agency Xinhua reported.Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu were all "in good health" after touching down in the return capsule of their Shenzhou spaceship at t...
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday criticised what he called the United States' "destabilising presence" after the deployment of B-52 bombers in the region."We have always believed that the presence of America in the region is a destabilising presence,...
Iran on Monday executed a member of the country's Jewish minority who had been convicted of murder, an NGO said, at a time of rising tensions with Israel.Arvin Ghahremani was hanged in prison in the western city of Kermanshah after being found guilty of a murder during a street fight, said the N...
Gaza rescuers said Israeli strikes in Gaza on Sunday killed at least 30 people, as the Israeli military pursues its offensive against Hamas in the north of the Palestinian territory."Since dawn today, at least 17 citizens have been martyred in Israeli attacks on homes and citizens in the northe...
Business
Irish budget airline Ryanair reported falling net profit for the second quarter on Monday following a drop in ticket prices.Chief executive Michael O'Leary warned that Ryanair's full-year results "will be subject to avoiding adverse developments", citing risks from conflicts in Ukr...
A Russian rocket will launch two privately built Iranian satellites into orbit early Tuesday, the Iranian embassy in Moscow said, hailing close space cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.The two countries have deepened ties and trade amid Russia's military offensive on Ukraine and conflict in t...
World,Front Page
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump dueled across the swing states Saturday on the final weekend of the tensest US election of modern times, with the Democrat urging voters to "turn the page" on the Republican's scorched-earth brand of politics.Seventy five million people have already cast ...
US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are hurtling toward their November 5 election showdown, one of the closest contests in modern American history.And in the handful of critical states framing the 2024 race, there is little daylight between the rivals with barely a week...
American B-52 bombers have arrived in the Middle East, the US military said Saturday, a day after Washington announced their deployment in a warning to Iran."B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base's 5th Bomb Wing arrived in the US Central Command area of responsibil...
Thousands of women descended on Washington on Saturday, three days before Election Day, in a passionate show of support for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her calls for access to reproductive health care.The vice president has made abortion rights a central plank of her White House bid again...
Hundreds of Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv voiced their frustration with the government on Saturday for failing to secure a truce deal to bring the remaining hostages in Gaza home.Flag-waving demonstrators in the country's commercial hub held placards with slogans including "Deal now",...
As Donald Trump pursues a second stint in the White House, three thousand miles away in Scotland he is building a new golf course that renews scrutiny of his vexed relationship with his mother's birth country.For some, the 18-hole links on the northeast Aberdeenshire coast will symbolise the Rep...
Supporters of former Bolivian president Evo Morales are holding at least 200 soldiers hostage, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday, as their standoff with the state continues to escalate.Three military units in Chapare province were "assaulted by irregular groups" on Friday, with the assail...
World,Back Page
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Saturday to retaliate against attacks by Israel and its ally the United States targeting Tehran and groups it supports in the region."The enemies, both the USA and the Zionist regime, should know that they will definitely receive a tooth...
As Palestinian-American entrepreneur Jamal Zaglul stood by his olive press at the end of harvest season in the occupied West Bank, his mind was far away on next week's US election.Like other US passport holders living in Turmus Aya -- where they form the majority -- he was sceptical the ballot w...
Sports,Football
Ruben Amorim revealed Friday that he was told by Manchester United "it was now or never" as he looked ahead to taking over the Old Trafford hotseat midway through the season.The 39-year-old Sporting Lisbon coach was confirmed as the new United manager earlier in the day to replace the sack...
"Anti-woke" candidate Kemi Badenoch on Saturday won the vote to become the UK Conservatives' new leader, replacing Rishi Sunak who quit after the party's disastrous showing in July's general election.Badenoch, 44, came out on top in the two-horse race with former immigration mi...
Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods while the remnants of a tropical storm trickle over the country.The Japan Meteorological Agency said "warm, moist air... was causing heavy rainfall with thunderstorms in west...
Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, UN cultural body UNESCO said in a report Saturday, with almost all cases going unpunished.At 162 deaths, the number of journalists killed while working leaped 38 percent, the report found, calling the the incre...
At least 10 strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs at dawn on Friday, Lebanon's official news agency said, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for buildings in the area.AFPTV footage showed explosions followed by clouds of smoke that rang out in the city's suburbs after the Is...
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