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Palestinians injured as Israeli forces help settlers seize West Bank olive groves
BEITA (Palestinian Territories), Oct 4 — Israeli soldiers yesterday backed settlers who seized Palestinian olive groves at the start of the harvest season, with injuries reported in several places across the occupied West Bank, witnesses and medics said. October is
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Houthis say struck oil facility near Riyadh, as Saudis hit Sanaa
SANAA, Oct 4 — Yemen’s Houthis claimed an attack on an oil facility near the Saudi capital yesterday, where an AFP journalist saw flames and smoke, and accused the Gulf kingdom of striking Sanaa dozens of times. The foes have
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Israel’s targeted strike on Hamas leader sparks outrage over civilian deaths
GAZA CITY, Oct 4 — Israel said yesterday that it attempted to kill Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike on an apartment that local officials said killed five people, four of them women. The pre-dawn strike
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Flydubai co-pilot tried to carry out ‘terrorist act’, attacked captain with cockpit axe, UAE says
DUBAI, Oct 3 — The UAE’s attorney general said the co-pilot of a flydubai flight to Israel had planned a “terrorist act” and used the cockpit’s emergency axe to attack the captain, the official UAE news agency WAM reported today.
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How did he get back in the cockpit? Flydubai co-pilot accused of mid-air attack was previously banned in Oman
DUBAI, Oct 3 — The co-pilot accused of attacking the captain of a flydubai flight to Israel had previously been barred from flying in Oman over concerns about his extremist views, multiple media outlets reported. Scrutiny into the alleged assailant
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King Charles to confront Britain’s colonial ‘darkest days’ on Caribbean tour
LONDON, Oct 3 — King Charles III will acknowledge the “darkest days” of colonial rule and slavery while touring Caribbean countries on a visit beginning this month, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said yesterday. The king will first visit the Bahamas
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Two oil tankers struck by unidentified projectiles near Strait of Hormuz
TEHRAN, Oct 3 — Two oil tankers have been struck by “unidentified projectiles” in the Strait of Hormuz region, a British maritime agency said yesterday, in the latest threat to shipping in the waterway. The Hormuz passage, through which a
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Australia reports second govt website breach involving OpenAI
SYDNEY, Oct 2 — The state government of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) on Friday reported a second government website breach involving an OpenAI agent, reported Xinhua. The NSW Premier’s Department said it was notified by the AI giant on
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In wake of Flydubai attack, Israeli airline scraps repatriation flights after UAE landing clearance fails to come
JERUSALEM, Oct 2 — Israel’s flag carrier El Al said it was forced to cancel repatriation flights today from Dubai which it had planned due to flydubai suspending service to Tel Aviv following an in-flight attack. El Al said that
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South Korea warns ‘further measures’ if Ukraine refuses public apology
SEOUL, Oct 2 — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said today Seoul would take “further measures” if Ukraine refuses to publicly apologise over what he called its unilateral disclosure of North Korean POWs being sent to South Korea. Seoul
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