NEW DELHI: The death toll from Thursday’s Air India plane crash near Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat has risen to 274, with 33 on-ground deaths having been confirmed, The Times of India daily reported on Saturday, according to Xinhua. The casualty count increasing beyond the 241 passengers and crew confirmed dead in the crash suggested that…
NEW YORK: Less than a month after it began receiving migrants, a controversial detention center run by a private firm has been the scene of protests, violence, and escapes, sources said Friday. Soon after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inked a billion-dollar, 15-year contract to outsourcing giant Geo Group to transform an…
PRESIDENT Donald Trump filed his first public financial disclosure report of his term on Friday, providing what he said was the latest information about his holdings, including income from his family’s foray into cryptocurrencies. Trump reported $57.35 million from token sales at crypto firm World Liberty Financial. He also reported holding 15.75 billion governance tokens…
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,…
