At least 200 killed in clashes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state
KHARTOUM: At least 200 people were killed in two days of ethnic clashes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, official media said on Saturday, up from an earlier toll of…
Struggle and win, Xi Jinping says as Communist Party Congress ends
BEIJING: China’s five-yearly Communist Party Congress wrapped up on Saturday with President Xi Jinping set to emerge from the event as leader for an unprecedented third term. Xi delivered a…
Russian nuclear weapons use would be ‘act of hostility against humanity’: Japan PM
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned Saturday that Russia using nuclear weapons would be seen as an “act of hostility against humanity,” describing President Vladimir Putin’s saber rattling as “deeply…
Taliban kill six Daesh members in raid in Afghan capital
Taliban security forces killed six Daesh members in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a spokesman for the ruling group’s administration said on Saturday. Daesh members killed in…
Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italian premier
ROME: Giorgia Meloni, whose political party has neo-fascist roots, was sworn in on Saturday as Italy’s first far-right premier. Meloni, 45, took the oath of office before the Italian president…
Pro-Russian authorities tell Kherson residents to leave ‘immediately,’ 36 rockets launched in ‘massive attack’
KHERSON: Pro-Russian authorities on Saturday urged residents in the southern Kherson region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, to leave the main city “immediately” in the face of Kyiv’s advancing…
Erdogan to discuss NATO bid with Swedish PM in Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accepted a request from Sweden’s new prime minister to visit Turkey for talks aimed at overcoming Ankara’s objections to Stockholm and Helsinki’s bids to…
New protest erupts on streets of Iranian city
A new protest erupted on Friday in the southeastern Iranian city where nearly 100 demonstrators were killed in a brutal crackdown three weeks ago. Hundreds of Iranians took to the…
Lebanon, Syria discuss sea border after Beirut’s Israel deal
BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday discussed delineating their countries’ shared maritime border, a Lebanese official said. A dispute over their shared sea boundary…
Saudi Arabia condemns Houthi drone attack on Yemen’s oil port
Saudi Arabia has condemned the Houthi’s “terrorist attack” on Al-Dhabba oil port in Hadramout, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. In a statement released on Saturday, the Saudi foreign ministry…