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‘Don’t want to be sandwiched’
Anura Kumara Dissanayake - Sri Lanka’s new Marxist president - has said he wants to avoid being “sandwiched” between India and China but recognises each as a “valued partner”, as he tries to resolve a financial crisis that has roiled his country since 2019 and led to a sovereign default in April 2022.
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Assange to give first public address since release
Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to break his post-prison silence in an address to the Council of Europe next week, his organisation revealed yesterday.
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
China launches missile into Pacific in rare test
China said it test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday, firing it into the Pacific Ocean in its first such exercise in decades.
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Hezbollah’s tunnels weather Israel’s blows
Hezbollah’s flexible chain of command, together with its extensive tunnel network and a vast arsenal of missiles and weapons it has bolstered over the past year, is helping it weather unprecedented Israeli strikes, sources familiar with the Lebanese militant group’s operations said.
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
India allows diplomats to observe polls
Foreign diplomats from 15 countries were allowed to observe local elections in India’s Jammu and Kashmir yesterday, as New Delhi highlighted the first vote in the disputed Himalayan territory in a decade.
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel sends scores of bodies to Gaza
Israel yesterday returned the bodies of 88 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which the territory’s health ministry refused to bury before Israel discloses details about who they are and where it killed them.
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Big threats on my life by Iran’
Donald Trump said yesterday there were “big threats” on his life posed by Iran after the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign team said US intelligence warned him of “real and specific” threats from Tehran.
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Refrain from full-scale war
World leaders lined up at the United Nations on Tuesday to call on Israel to refrain from a full-scale war in Lebanon, with the organization’s chief warning the situation was on the “brink.”
25 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Hezbollah's tunnels and flexible command weather Israel's deadly blows
Fighting has escalated this week. Israel killed another top Hezbollah commander, Ibrahim Qubaisi, on Tuesday. For its part, Hezbollah has shown its capacity to continue operations, firing hundreds of rockets towards Israel in ever deeper attacks.
25 September 2024, 13:06 PM
Lebanon says 10 people killed in Israeli strikes Wednesday
The health ministry said that an Israeli strike on the village of Joun in the Chouf mountains, southeast of Beirut, killed four people. It said two other strikes killed three people in the village of Maaysra, north of Beirut, and three in Ain Qana in the south.
25 September 2024, 10:12 AM
Israel says carrying out 'extensive' strikes in south Lebanon
The Israeli military said it was carrying out "extensive" air strikes in south Lebanon and the eastern Beqaa Valley after Hezbollah fired a ballistic missile that reached the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
25 September 2024, 08:22 AM
Israel 'pushing region towards all-out war': Egypt, Iraq, Jordan
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan condemned Israel's "aggression" against Lebanon Wednesday, warning that it is "pushing the region towards all-out war".
25 September 2024, 07:01 AM
Hezbollah fires ballistic missile targeting Mossad HQ near Tel Aviv
Israeli military says it is the first time a Hezbollah missile reached Tel Aviv area
25 September 2024, 05:55 AM
Thai farm culls 125 crocodiles as floodwaters rise
Heavy monsoon rains swept across northern Thailand this month, triggering floods and landslides that have killed more than 20 people.
25 September 2024, 05:09 AM
China launches intercontinental missile into Pacific in rare test
Beijing has stepped up its nuclear development in recent years, with the Pentagon last October warning China was developing its arsenal more quickly than the United States had anticipated.
25 September 2024, 05:03 AM
World leaders call for investment in clean energy, developing nations seek help
Speaking at a Global Renewables Summit, Kenyan President William Ruto made the case for investing in renewables in Africa as part of the global pledge made at last year's COP28 summit to triple clean energy capacity by 2030.
25 September 2024, 04:20 AM
US intel warns of Iran threats to assassinate Trump: campaign
Iran rejected accusations that it is trying to kill Trump earlier this summer, shortly after a gunman opened fire at a rally in Pennsylvania, killing one person and wounding the presidential candidate.
25 September 2024, 04:09 AM
Lebanon says only US can stop fighting
Israel's offensive since Monday morning has killed 569 people, including 50 children, and wounded 1,835 in Lebanon
25 September 2024, 04:04 AM
Myanmar fighters battle to hold prized city
Most fled the weeks of fighting that culminated in the city's capture last month, and those who remain fear a return to the bloody violence.
25 September 2024, 03:57 AM
China ‘number one’ source of cyberattacks: Taiwan
Taiwan’s defence minister yesterday accused China of being the “number one country conducting daily cyberattacks” against the democratic island and denied allegations about Taipei-backed hackers targeting Beijing.
24 September 2024, 18:00 PM