SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected military industrial factories, calling them to expand production of shells that meet modern warfare needs, state media KCNA said on Saturday. Kim visited lines for pressing metals and assembly on Friday, checked the progress of shell production in the first half of 2025, and suggested new tasks…
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Friday began letting people turn online searches into conversations, with generative artificial intelligence providing spoken summaries of query results. With Audio Overviews, Gemini AI models quickly sum up query results in conversational style, according to Google. “An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient,…
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Iranians Friday to unite against what he described as an “evil and oppressive regime”, telling them Israel was engaged in “one of the greatest military operations in history”. “The time has come for the Iranian people to unite around its flag and its historic legacy, by standing…
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nearly 20-year-old threat to strike Iran came true on Friday, as US President Donald Trump warned Tehran of further “brutal” attacks if it refuses to negotiate. In its largest military action against Iran to date, Israel’s strikes hit about 100 targets including nuclear facilities and military command centres, and…
WASHINGTON: The upcoming UN conference co-hosted by Saudi Arabia and France on the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine has been postponed amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran, Anadolu Ajansi reported. The High-Level Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution was scheduled to take…
ECUADOR said Friday it will probe the finances of any judge or prosecutor who releases a suspected violent criminal, amid allegations of bribery frustrating the government’s fight against organized crime. Once-peaceful Ecuador averaged a killing every hour at the start of the year as drug cartels battle for control over cocaine routes that pass through…
ISTANBUL: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot reiterated on Friday the country’s determination to recognise the State of Palestine, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported. France would “uphold the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination by recognising the State of Palestine,“ Barrot said during his speech at the civil society event, Paris Call for the Two-State Solution,…
RENNES: Four people were killed and nine others seriously injured in a motorway accident Friday in western France involving a bus carrying a group of Ukrainian students, authorities said. Local prosecutors said later Friday that the two Ukrainian drivers had been detained on suspicion of manslaughter and “involuntary wounding”. All four people who died were…
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump urged Iran Friday to make a deal or face “even more brutal” attacks by Israel, as Washington said it was helping its key ally defend itself against Iranian retaliation. But Trump also kept the door open for negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program, as the president who boasted he had “no…
WASHINGTON: For President Donald Trump, few goals on the world stage have been more explicit — he will not drag the United States into another “forever war.” Yet Israel’s massive strikes on Iran will test that promise as never before, potentially setting up a showdown with his base as Trump decides how much support the…
