JERUSALEM: Air raid sirens were activated briefly across a large swath of northern Israel on Tuesday warning of an incoming barrage of Iranian missiles, the military said. “A short while ago, sirens sounded in several areas across Israel following the identification of missiles launched from Iran toward the State of Israel,“ the military said in…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said the United States would not kill Iran’s supreme leader “for now” and appeared to demand Tehran’s surrender, as US ally Israel traded fire with its arch foe for a fifth day on Tuesday. The comments marked a dramatic escalation in Trump’s rhetoric against Iran and its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,…
SAO PAULO: Brazil’s police on Tuesday called for far-right ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for alleged coup-plotting, to be separately charged with illegal espionage while president, Bolsonaro’s son and local media reported. Bolsonaro risks around 40 years in prison if convicted of plotting to cling to power despite losing October 2022 elections to left-winger Luiz…
TEHRAN: Facing the camera with a defiant gaze, her index finger raised in the air, Iranian TV presenter Sahar Emami became an icon in her country after an Israeli attack on the state broadcaster. “What you can see is the flagrant aggression of the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump faces potentially the hardest choice of his time in the White House, as he weighs up whether the United States should join Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran. Trump fueled speculation about a US intervention as he dashed back from a G7 summit in Canada, warning Tuesday that the United States could…
LONDON: UK MPs on Tuesday voted to end contentious prosecutions of women in England and Wales for terminating a pregnancy, paving the way for a huge overhaul of how the country’s abortion laws are enforced. Currently, a woman can face criminal charges for choosing to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks or without the approval…
HARDCORE supporters of Serie A giants Inter Milan and AC Milan were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for a range of crimes including criminal conspiracy and murder, following a probe into illegal activities of so-called “ultra” groups. All 16 people standing trial for a variety of offences, in a fast-track…
BOSTON: A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans nationwide that reflect their gender identities. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick in Boston expanded a preliminary injunction she issued in April that allowed just six transgender and nonbinary individuals who challenged the policy to…
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said Tuesday its forces struck several locations in western Iran, hitting “dozens” of missile launchers as the arch-foes traded fire for a fifth straight day. “A short while ago, the Israeli air force completed a series of strikes in western Iran,“ a military statement said. “As part of the strikes, a…
THE HAGUE: The Dutch government Tuesday advised parents to forbid children under 15 from using social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat, the latest country to propose curbs over mental health concerns. The advice, which is non-binding, comes after Australia and New Zealand proposed social media bans for under-16s, and several European countries have issued…
