Ahead of the verdict, Nadezhda Buyanova was led, handcuffed, into the courtroom and locked inside a glass and metal cage. Through the glass, the 68-year-old paediatrician told me what she thought of her predicament. “It’s absurd, just absurd,” the doctor said. “I can’t get my head around what’s happening to me. Perhaps later I’ll be…
Reuters About 44% of verified victims were children and 26% women, the UN said The UN’s Human Rights Office has condemned the high number of civilians killed in the war in Gaza, saying its analysis shows close to 70% of verified victims over a six-month period were women and children. The agency said the high…
Donald Trump vowed on his campaign that he would tax all goods imported into the US if he won back the White House. Following his victory, businesses and economists around the world are scrambling to work out how serious he is. In the past, Trump has targeted tariffs at individual countries such as China or…
Getty Images For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s blood-soaked “dark decade”, in which up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed in massacres blamed on Islamists or…
Hezbollah’s newly named leader Naim Kassem said in his first public comments aired Wednesday that the militant group will keep fighting in its ongoing war with Israel until it is offered cease-fire terms it deems acceptable. “If the Israelis decide to stop the aggression, we say that we accept, but according to the conditions that…
Devon Mostert, Dolphins running back Raheem Mostert’s wife, claimed that backing US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 White House race would be a “vote for war.” Blasting Biden-Harris administration, Devon Moster accused them of not acknowledging the fallen American soldiers. (X) In an elaborate Instagram Stories post on Tuesday,…
Oct 29, 2024 11:49 PM IST Hamas is open to discussing a new deal securing an end to Gaza war, and Israeli pull-out from the region, said a group official. A senior Hamas official said on Tuesday the Palestinian militant group was studying new proposals from mediators to end the Gaza war but reiterated that…
North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday, in a move that Western leaders say will intensify the almost three-year war and jolt relations in the Indo-Pacific region. FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea’s leader…
