BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s tolerance for dissent appears to be narrowing as criticism of the group grows in the aftermath of its latest devastating war with Israel — increasingly from within the very communities that have traditionally formed its support base. That intolerance recently turned 37-year-old »»»

Election fairness questioned as protests grow against voter list revision in India New Delhi: India's youth “Cockroach” movement was set to hold fresh protests in the capital New Delhi on Saturday, intensifying a nationwide campaign against a contentious voter list revision that has fueled anger at»»»

KHARTOUM: Abdul Wahid Nour, the head of the Sudan Liberation Movement and Army, rejected the participation of the army commander Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti”, in any future government in their military capacities, stipulating »»»

Kaja Kallas, the Estonian diplomat and former prime minister currently serving as the vice-president of the European Commission, has shown a deeply confrontational attitude towards Russia and the Russians. It is perhaps worth pausing here to note that this is particularly personal, given her family»»»

Emirates, Etihad, flydubai and Air Arabia report cancellations; UAE airports see delays UAE travellers faced disruptions on Saturday, October 10, with cancellations affecting flights between Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah and Saudi Arabia destinations, including Riyadh and Abha. Emirates, Etihad Airw»»»

It’s been a year since a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump and Arab allies promised to end the war in Gaza, and Israel is still launching deadly strikes on the devastated territory. The agreement halted major military operations, freed all remaining hostages and increased humanit»»»

US investment firm Carlyle Group has withdrawn from the competition to buy Russian oil giant Lukoil’s international assets, including the refinery in Burgas, Bloomberg reported. The company confirmed that it was no longer actively pursuing the acquisition but offered no further explanation. In its »»»

NCM warns motorists of poor visibility, with fog potentially lasting hours after dawn Abu Dhabi: The UAE's National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) has warned of fog forming across parts of the country in the coming days, with visibility expected to deteriorate sharply and potentially fall to zero in s»»»

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Police in Brazil on Friday rescued 13 children who had been taken hostage in their kindergarten and killed the assailant who threatened to set fire to the building, officials said. The incident took place in the southern city of Curitiba. "We successfully neutralized this pe»»»

Manila: Three people were killed after a landslide buried a family's house in a hinterland village in Cebu City, central Philippines, on Friday, according to local media reports on Saturday. Rescuers recovered four people buried in the debris, among whom a grandmother and a child were found dead. A»»»

LIMA: The message was clear as US Vice President JD Vance shook hands in his native Ohio with a woman wearing a “Vance 2028” cap — at least from his supporter’s perspective. Donald Trump’s deputy has yet to declare that he will run for the White House in two years’ time. But what was supposed to be»»»

GULF BREEZE, Florida: Isaias crashed into the US Gulf Coast on Friday as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane, hammering communities in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with damaging winds, heavy rain, flooding and life-threatening storm surges. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made landfall»»»

NEW DELHI: Indian police detained on Saturday Abhijeet Dipke, head of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, ahead of a major protest against the Election Commission, the party said. Dipke and two other leaders were detained before disembarking from a flight in the capital New Delhi, w»»»

Syracuse, United States: US President Donald Trump slammed the "disgraceful" Nobel Peace Prize choice on Friday as leaving an "indelible stain" on Norway, arguing that the award should have gone to him. South African judge and human rights champion Navi Pillay won the prestigious prize on Friday in»»»

BREAKING NEWSCJP slams 'authoritarian' detention of leaders before demonstration Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke and two party members from a flight shortly after it landed in Delhi on Saturday morning, triggering a heated exchange between the protesters and»»»

Plan ahead: Delhi Airport warns of delays amid CJP protest disruptions UAE travellers flying to Delhi on Saturday have been advised to plan their journeys carefully as heightened security and traffic restrictions disrupt movement across the Indian capital. Delhi Airport has urged passengers travell»»»

Drones, barricades, and metro closures mark Delhi's response to CJP protest New Delhi: Delhi Police detained around 500 people ahead of a planned protest against the Election Commission of India on Saturday. Nearly 50 people with criminal antecedents were also apprehended as part of preventive secu»»»

Penonomé, Panama: A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Panama on Friday, collapsing buildings and roads in the center of the country and injuring at least two people, with no deaths reported. The shallow tremor was felt across the Central American nation of around 4.5 million people, accordin»»»

Police in Lansing, Michigan, are investigating whether a serial killer is responsible for the deaths of five men found along a short stretch of a river trail in the city over the past year. The victims, aged between 22 and 70, were all believed to be homeless. Their bodies were discovered along a 1»»»

TAIPEI: Taiwan aims to “deter war” by increasing its defense spending, the democratic island’s leader said Saturday, as China uses military pressure to assert its territorial claims. Taiwan’s 23 million people live under the constant threat of an attack by China, which insists the island is part of»»»

SEOUL, South Korea: At least 38 people sustained minor injuries after parts of a plaster ceiling collapsed at a supermarket in South Korea’s Daegu city, fire officials said Saturday. The Daegu Fire Department said 66 other people evacuated the facility following the collapse, which was reported at »»»

Germany has appointed its first far-right speaker of a regional parliament since the Second World War, after Tobias Rausch of Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) was elected in Saxony-Anhalt. His deputy is the AfD’s Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, who admires Russia’s Vladimir Put»»»

Trump criticizes Nobel Committee, claims he deserved the Peace Prize US President Donald Trump slammed the "disgraceful" Nobel Peace Prize choice on Friday as leaving an "indelible stain" on Norway, arguing that the award should have gone to him. South African judge and human rights champion Navi P»»»

French student unions ​vowed on Friday to keep up the fight even as the government registered a "marked slowdown" in a protest movement that has rattled the country for over a week. The UN human rights agency called for de-escalation, voicing concern over violent clashes with police that have cause»»»

SYRACUSE, New York: US President Donald Trump reiterated his complaints on ​Friday about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it a disgraceful and embarrassing decision that had left a stain on Norway, which hosts the Nobel committee. Trump unleashed on Norway hours after the committee awar»»»

iD Fresh expects minimal change, while Al Ain Farms has cut added sugars by 10-20% Dubai: UAE food manufacturers say they can meet new limits on sodium, sugar and fat in packaged foods, though some warn of higher costs. Two of the country’s packaged food producers, iD Fresh Food and Al Ain Farms, t»»»

WASHINGTON: Top Democrats accused President Donald Trump of betraying Ukraine, European allies and US national security after he announced a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to obtain diesel, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the move as a weak decision that could pro»»»

NEW DELHI: Central Delhi was sealed on Saturday, with thousands of police and paramilitaries on patrol, metro stations shut, mobile Internet suspended, and markets closed to guard against a youth protest demanding India’s chief election officer quit. The protest, called by the “Cockroach” youth mov»»»

Children may forget school milestones, but they will remember who stood beside them Children may not remember every lesson we teach them, but they will always remember how it felt to have us by their side when it mattered. There is something profoundly powerful about being present. In a world that »»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of conspiring ​along with former FBI Director James Comey and others to rig that year’s election by linking his campaign to Russia. »»»

PANAMA CITY: A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck southern Panama on Friday, damaging buildings and sending thousands ​into the streets, but the country appeared to escape widespread destruction or deaths. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake hit at a depth of 12.6 km (7.8 miles), with an epic»»»

LONDON: The ceasefire in Gaza exists “in name only,” more than 100 humanitarian and human rights organizations warned on Friday. A year after the agreement took effect, Palestinians continued to face Israeli attacks, widespread hunger and a devastated healthcare system, they said. In a joint statem»»»

OSLO: The decision to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to veteran jurist Navi Pillay has exposed the vast gulf between Israel and global institutions charged with upholding international law, a rift that has widened over the war in Gaza. Over a decades-long career, Pillay served at the highest l»»»

Pope Leo is tapping into public fears of artificial intelligence to distract people from the Catholic Church’s latent child sex abuse scandals, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has claimed. The gay US tech billionaire also accused former President Barack Obama of exploiting opposition to AI for poli»»»

The US Treasury Department has announced a temporary sanctions waiver on the Russian fuel trade amid skyrocketing global prices. The move allows the sale, delivery, offloading, and import of Russian diesel, including to the United States, until at least April 7, 2027. The announcement came after Pr»»»

LONDON: Britain’s Northern Ireland Secretary on Friday banned a contentious Protestant parade through a mostly Irish nationalist and Catholic district after a nearly two-week standoff. The Parades Commission, Northern Ireland’s independent body regulating contentious processions, had authorized 35 »»»

NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania’s prime minister resigned Friday after a scathing report on two major electric facility fires, but he was reappointed hours later and asked to form a new government. Mokhtar Ould Djay’s resignation after more than two years in office came after President Mohamed Ould Cheikh E»»»

NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia will not allow Yemen to become a launchpad for attacks against the Kingdom or threats to shipping in the Red Sea, the Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the UN Abdulaziz Alwasil told the UN Security Council on Friday. Addressing an emergency meeting on the Middle East, Alw»»»

Former economy minister Márton Nagy and his delegation reportedly chartered a private aircraft for the 88-kilometre journey between Brussels and Bruges, as well as for their wider trip, which cost HUF 12.5 million of taxpayer money, according to documents uncovered during an internal ministerial re»»»

Washington: The United States today imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in an unprecedented move targeting its resources and operational capacity, just hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay of South Africa was named the winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. US Secretary o»»»

France's far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella deleted data from a former activist Facebook account as soon as allegations surfaced that he wrote anti-Semitic comments in his youth, French investigative weekly Le Canard enchaîné said Friday, piling pressure on the top ally of preside»»»

NEW YORK: Saudi Arabia will not allow Yemen to become a launchpad for attacks against the Kingdom or threats to shipping in the Red Sea, the Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to the UN Abdulaziz Alwasil told the UN Security Council on Friday. Addressing an emergency meeting on the Middle East, Alw»»»

RABAT: Morocco’s King Mohammed VI defended his country’s “partnership” with Spain on Friday but said it would not be influenced by pressure or threats, weeks after thousands of migrants swept into Madrid’s North African exclave of Ceuta. The tiny territory has occupied a central place in Spanish po»»»

2020 was an annus horribilis. Covid stalked the land. Lockdowns, curfews and social distancing were the order of the day. But there was a silver lining: European countries showed themselves to be capable of great solidarity, jointly procuring vaccines and then agreeing on a mammoth post-Covid recov»»»

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia had agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel to US and global markets in an effort to cut fuel prices before November's midterm elections. The move marks a stunning change of policy after the US and its allies hit Russia with »»»

PARIS: Students in France were largely back in the classroom Friday following days of protests demanding better education and school conditions, as the UN voiced “concern” over the sometimes violent clashes. Tens of thousands have taken to the streets across France since students in late September »»»

Doha, Qatar: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent a cable of condolences to the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria HE Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the victims of a military plane crash in the southwest of the country.»»»

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia had agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the US and global marketplace in an effort aimed at cutting prices for the fuel ahead of the November midterm elections. The move comes as prices of diesel, used in agr»»»

HOMS: Authorities in Syria said they foiled planned attacks by Daesh on places of worship and security patrols in Homs province, arrested two suspected members of the terrorist group, and seized explosive devices they planned to use. The Internal Security Forces said in a statement that investigato»»»

UAE expresses condolences and support after deadly Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia The United Arab Emirates has condemned in the strongest terms the attacks by the Houthi group on King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia aircraft in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which resulted in the deaths of »»»