At least 9 dead as cyclone lashes Oman, Iran

Muscat, Oct 3 (AFP/APP):At least nine people were killed in Oman and Iran on Sunday as Tropical Cyclone Shaheen pummelled parts of their coastlines, authorities said. In Oman, two people died in a landslide and a child in flash flooding, officials said. Rescue teams pulled […]

German parties meet as coalition haggling begins

Berlin, Oct 3 (AFP/APP):German political parties will hold exploratory talks from Sunday as they jostle to form the next government after a close election, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) battling Angela Merkel’s conservatives for the chancellery. The SPD and its candidate Olaf Scholz narrowly […]

British PM Johnson upbeat despite UK’s woes

Manchester, United Kingdom, Oct 3 (AFP/APP):Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday vowed to press on with his post-Brexit agenda for Britain, even as the country faces a growing supply chain crisis made worse by its EU departure. Rank-and-file members of Johnson’s Conservative party gather from […]

US charges Canadian who narrated Islamic State videos

Washington, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):A Canadian jihadist who fought for the Islamic State group and narrated violent propaganda videos has been taken into custody by the United States and charged, the Justice Department said Saturday. Mohammed Khalifa, 38 and born in Saudi Arabia, was captured during […]

Europe-Japan space mission captures images of Mercury

Paris, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, the European Space Agency said Saturday. The images were obtained almost three years after the unmanned mission vessel was launched aboard an Ariane 5 […]

70 boat migrants from Libya missing in Med: NGO

Tripoli, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):Seventy migrants headed for Europe across the Mediterranean from Libya have gone missing, the independent support group Alarm Phone said Saturday. “A boat with 70 people on board is missing for 4 days! They departed from Khoms, #Libya, & called AlarmPhone several […]

Trump asks court to get him back on Twitter

Washington, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):Donald Trump has filed suit asking a court to reinstate his account on Twitter and restore the online voice he lost for allegedly instigating the Capitol Hill riot. Twitter and other social media banned the former president from their platforms after a […]

Jihadist chief, 18 fighters killed in Mozambique: SADC

Johannesburg, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):A local jihadist leader and 18 rebels were killed during a military strike on their base in Mozambique’s insurgency-hit north, a bloc of southern African nations said Saturday. Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have been terrorising Mozambique’s gas-rich Cabo Delgado region since 2017, raiding villages […]

close