LONDON: Britain supports Israel's right to take proportionate action that is within international law to bring an end to violence, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman said on Monday, following Israeli retaliation to a shock attack by Hamas militants. "We support Israel exercising its right to self
HONG KONG: A submarine arms race is intensifying as China embarks on production of a new generation of nuclear-armed submarines that for the first time are expected to pose a challenge to growing US and allied efforts to track them. Analysts and regional defence attaches say
GAZA: The Gaza Strip has suffered its deadliest day in 15 years in the wake of an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, to which Israel responded with air strikes that killed nearly 300 Palestinians in 24 hours, according to Palestinian officials. The dead included three-month-old
NEW DELHI: Indian government's crackdown on NewsClick, a non-profit news organisation established in 2009 and renowned for its incisive reporting on the Hindu nationalist agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have been driven by a New York Times report. The NewsClick's founder-editor, staff, past employees,
JERUSALEM: Hundreds of Palestinian and Israeli women rallied in Jerusalem and the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank, calling for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We want peace,” chanted the demonstrators, many dressed in white and holding placards that read “Stop killing our children”. “Our
OSLO: Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian rights campaigner, was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 on Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi for her
DAMASCUS: An attack on a military academy in Syria resulted in up to 100 deaths, according to a war monitor and an official, as weaponised drones bombed the location shortly after Syria's defence minister left a graduation ceremony there. In a nation that has endured a
NEW YORK: Weather disasters fueled by climate change -- from floods to droughts, storms to wildfires -- sparked 43.1 million child displacements from 2016 to 2021, the UN Children's Fund warned Thursday, slamming the lack of attention paid to victims. In a sweeping report on the
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have called on political leaders to urgently establish new international rules on autonomous weapon systems, also known as killer robots, to protect humanity. “We call on world leaders to launch negotiations
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has revealed his ambitious vision to transform post-16 education in England, announcing the introduction of a groundbreaking qualification called the "Advanced British Standard" (ABS). The new qualification aims to amalgamate A-levels and T-levels, revolutionising the education landscape. In his address at