LONDON: Get ready for a scorching year ahead as El Nino gears up to turn 2024 into a potential heatwave nightmare, surpassing the record-breaking temperatures of 2023. The United Nations' World Meteorological Organisation issues a stern warning, urging the world to brace for the impact of
WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns over China's human rights issues in a meeting with senior Chinese official Liu Jianchao in Washington, the State Department said, adding they also discussed "maintaining peace and stability" in the Taiwan Strait. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Senior U.S.
NEW YORK: Microsoft’s stock market value ended a trading session higher than Apple’s for the first time since 2021, making it the world’s most valuable company as worries about demand hit the iPhone maker’s shares. Apple crept up 0.2 percent on Friday, while Microsoft added 1
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he was beginning an 11-day religious fast ahead of a ceremony he will lead to inaugurate a controversial new Hindu temple. Modi is presiding over the January 22 opening of the shrine, built on grounds where
GAZA STRIP: Israel pounded Gaza on Saturday as the Palestinian territory suffered under a dire humanitarian situation and grappled with a telecommunications blackout on the 99th day of the war. Fears of the conflict widening have grown after US and British forces struck pro-Hamas Huthi rebels
SRINAGAR: Senior leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and Chairman of the Islamic Political Party, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash called upon the United Nations (UN) to uphold its commitment to the right of self-determination for Kashmiris. Highlighting the persistent oppressive actions by India, Naqash, in
LONDON: Britain is expected to join the United States in conducting overnight air strikes on military positions belonging to the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen “within hours,” the political editor for the Times newspaper reported on Friday. The US has not confirmed any intention to launch air
PARIS: In 2023, the world’s oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to “boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools,” according to an annual report published Friday. Oceans cover 70 percent of the planet and have kept the Earth’s surface livable by absorbing
NEW DELHI: India’s most populous state has stopped paying some 21,000 teachers of subjects including mathematics and science in Muslim religious schools, or madrasas, an official said on Thursday, and they could lose their jobs altogether. The teachers work at madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, ruled by
UNITED NATIONS: The past 12 months marked a “formidable” year for suppression of human rights, with world leaders ignoring violations in Sudan and Gaza, and against marginalized groups like the Uighurs, a monitor said Friday. In its world report for 2024 Human Rights Watch singled out