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Islamic State has a new leader
Intelligence services have identified the new leader of the Islamic State (IS) group as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, British newspaper The Guardian reported yesterday. The paper, citing officials from two unnamed spy services, described him as one of
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Four protesters, two policemen killed as Iraq unrest resumes
BAGHDAD: Six Iraqis including two police officers were killed and scores were wounded in Baghdad and other cities yesterday in clashes with security forces, medical and security sources said, as anti-government unrest resumed after a lull of several weeks. Three
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Australian bushfires fires hit coal output, conditions to worsen
SYDNEY: Mining giant BHP Group (BHP.AX) said today that poor air quality caused by smoke from Australia’s bushfires is hurting coal production, as authorities cautioned a reprieve from hazardous fire conditions could end within days. The warning from the world’s
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Trump ally, McConnell comes up with rules that may acquit the president
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering a legal and political case against his removal. The 116-page Trial Memorandum
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Climate change pushes investors to take their temperature
Move over revenue growth and dividend payouts: it’s time to take your portfolio’s temperature. Policymakers are pushing investors to do more to ensure their portfolio choices help to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change by limiting planetary
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Iran considers dual nationals on downed Ukrainian plane to be Iranians
Iran considers dual nationals aboard a Ukrainian plane that was shot down accidentally this month to be Iranian citizens, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said today. Iran does not recognise dual nationality. Many of the 176 people killed in the disaster
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Five killed in Russian hotel after boiling water floods basement
Five people died in the Russian city of Perm today after a hot water pipe exploded in the night and flooded a basement hotel room with boiling water, the regional investigative committee said. At least three other people were taken
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World’s richest 2k people control wealth of poorest 4.6 bln combined
The world’s richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, while unpaid or underpaid work by women and girls adds three times more to the global economy each year than the technology industry, Oxfam
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Lebanese security forces, protesters clash for second night
BEIRUT: Lebanese security forces fired water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas yesterday to try to break up stone-throwing protesters in Beirut, which has been rocked by some of the worst violence since unrest erupted in October. Yesterday’s confrontation broke
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Brazilian tribes back manifesto to save Amazon habitat from Bolsonaro
XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK: Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the “genocide, ethnocide and ecocide” planned by the country’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. A
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