World
The UN World Food Programme made an urgent appeal Friday for donors to provide early funding for South Sudan, where millions are on the brink of starvation.WFP said its stores of food supplies in South Sudan were empty and that it needed $404 million to prepare assistance for 2025 amid "spirall...
Japan and the European Union were set Friday to announce a new security partnership, which local media said would include more joint military drills, senior-level dialogue and defence industry cooperation.EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will meet his Japanese counterpart Takeshi Iwaya, who tol...
World,Back Page
Lebanon's prime minister said US envoy Amos Hochstein had signalled during a phone call Wednesday that a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war was possible before US elections are held on November 5."The call today with Hochstein suggested to me that perhaps we could reach a ceasefire in th...
The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists said on Wednesday.The remains of the town, dubbed al-Natah, were long concealed by the walled oasis of ...
Sports,Football
Inter Milan consolidated their second place in Serie A on Wednesday with a 3-0 away thrashing of 10-man Empoli.Europa League champions Atalanta climbed to third with a 2-0 win over lowly Monza, as Juventus again shed valuable points and dropped to fourth with a 2-2 home draw with Parma.Resurgent Nap...
Ruud van Nistelrooy enjoyed a winning start as interim Manchester United manager by beating Leicester 5-2 to reach the League Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday as Manchester City crashed out 2-1 to Tottenham.Arsenal and Liverpool were among the other sides to book their place in the last eight, but Ch...
Israeli police said Thursday they had arrested an Israeli couple on suspicion of spying for Iran, barely a week after two groups allegedly working for Tehran were detained."The thwarting of Iran's efforts to recruit Israelis continues," said a statement from the police and Israel's...
China on Thursday said it was "concerned" over the situation on the Korean Peninsula, after Pyongyang said it had test-fired one of its most powerful missiles to boost its nuclear deterrent.The launch was North Korea's first weapons test since being accused of sending soldiers to Russi...
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) said Wednesday that it had found hazardous and banned chemicals in hundreds of cosmetic products sold across Europe.The Helsinki-based agency has inspected almost 4,500 cosmetic products in 13 European countries and found that six percent of the products -- or 28...
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday hosted the first meeting of a new "international alliance" to press for the establishment of a Palestinian state.Unveiled last month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the "International Alliance to Implement the Two-State Solution" brings toge...
Human traffickers left dozens of Rohingya refugees, including children, stranded on a shoreline in westernmost Indonesia on Thursday, while six dead bodies were found nearby, local officials said.Members of the persecuted minority risk their lives each year on long and dangerous sea journeys, often ...
A partial ballot recount in Georgia's contested parliamentary election confirmed the ruling party won, electoral officials said Thursday, after opposition parties alleged violations and Washington and Brussels demanded an investigation.Georgia plunged into political uncertainty following Saturda...
Business
Saudi Arabia's new national airline, Riyadh Air, announced on Wednesday it has ordered 60 narrow-body aircraft from Airbus, as it prepares for takeoff next year.The carrier, created last year, has reached "an agreement to purchase 60 Airbus A321neo single-aisle aircraft in the latest step t...
Australia will ramp up missile manufacturing under a plan unveiled Wednesday by a top defence official, who said bolstering weapons stockpiles would help keep would-be foes at bay.Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said Australia would establish a homegrown industry to produce long-range guided mi...
Support has sunk further for Japan's embattled ruling coalition, a new poll showed Wednesday, after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's party suffered its worst election result in 15 years.Backing for the government nosedived to 34 percent, while its disapproval rating came to 51 percent, accord...
Beijing said Wednesday it had lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization over the European Union's decision to impose hefty tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars.The extra taxes of up to 35 percent were announced Tuesday after an EU probe found Chinese state subsidies were undercutting...
Lebanon's Hezbollah movement announced Tuesday it has chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hasan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month."Hezbollah's (governing) Shura Council agreed to elect... Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary general of ...
National,Front Page
Hundreds died in the student-led revolution that toppled Bangladesh's autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina, but those impacted in the violent aftermath fear the new authorities' promise of justice will exclude them.The family of 16-year-old Shahriar worry those who beat their son into a coma may ...
Sports,Tennis
Carlos Alcaraz approaches this week's Paris Masters hoping to make it a triple in the French capital in 2024 by adding the ATP 1000 title to his French Open win and silver medal at the Olympics.The Spanish world number two has never managed to progress further than the quarter-finals at this eve...
Britain's BP on Tuesday announced a sharp fall in net profit for the third quarter, with the oil and gas giant hit by weak oil trading and refining margins.Profit after taxation slumped to $206 million in the three months to September, after a net profit of $4.9 billion in the same period in 202...
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