LONDON: A rare oil painting of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, which is believed to have been damaged by a Hindu nationalist activist, is to be auctioned in London in July. Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in India’s history, led a non-violent movement against British rule and inspired similar resistance campaigns across the…
LOS ANGELES: For hours, thousands of people in Los Angeles peacefully celebrated their defiance of US President Donald Trump Saturday with music, marching, bubbles and balloons — then police unexpectedly moved in, and chaos and confusion broke out. The demonstration — part of the nationwide “No Kings” day of protests across the country — was…
WASHINGTON: Melissa Hortman – the senior Democratic state assemblywoman and former assembly speaker in Minnesota who was fatally shot along with her husband on Saturday – was remembered by Governor Tim Walz as someone with “grace, compassion, and tirelessness.” The lawmaker and her husband, Mark Hortman, were killed by a suspected gunman posing as a…
TUAM: A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland’s “mother and baby” home scandal. Beneath the ground at this peaceful spot in the town of Tuam, 135 miles (220 kilometres) west of Dublin, significant quantities of human remains have…
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Greenland on Sunday carrying a message of “European solidarity and support” for the Danish autonomous territory coveted by US President Donald Trump, located at the crossroads of the Atlantic and the Arctic. Macron will be the first foreign head of state to set foot on the vast…
ELON MUSK’S X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 6,700 incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform as of 06:07 p.m. ET, Downdetector showed, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Downdetector’s…
IRAN SAID the Shahran oil depot in Tehran was targeted in an Israeli attack on Saturday but that the “situation was under control”. “The fuel volume in the targeted tank was not high, and the situation is fully under control,“ Iran’s oil ministry’s SHANA news agency reported.
TEHRAN: Iranian news agency Tasnim reported early Sunday that an Israeli strike had targeted the country’s defence ministry headquarters in Tehran and damaged one of its buildings. In “an attack on Tehran this evening by the air force of the Zionist regime, the headquarters of the defence ministry was targeted. One of the headquarters’ buildings…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s emergency services said Saturday that an Iranian missile hit on a home in the country’s northern region of Galilee near Haifa wounded 14 people, leaving one in a critical condition. “Teams have reported 14 casualties at a two-storey home in the Western Galilee, including one in critical condition and the rest with varying…
TEHRAN: Iran launched a new wave of missiles at Israel on Saturday, wounding several people in residential buildings, while Israel said it was striking Tehran. The fresh attacks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to hit “every target of the ayatollah regime”, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned further strikes would draw “a…
