International

AFP/APP Baku: Global climate talks will be led for the second year in a row by a man with ties to the oil industry, after Azerbaijan named a minister to preside over the November COP29 meeting. Mukhtar Babayev, currently minister for…

AFP/APP London: On a grey, cloudy morning in December, London police deployed a state-of-the-art AI-powered camera near the railway station in the suburb of Croydon and quietly scanned the faces of the unsuspecting passersby. The use of…

AFP/APP Washington: President Joe Biden will try to fire up his 2024 campaign Friday with a major speech warning that democracy is at risk from Donald Trump, three years after the January 6 US Capitol attack. Either trailing or neck…

AFP/APP Amsterdam: Ikram Cakir hands over a multi-coloured blue and white blouse and selects a similar item, this time in hot pink. Welcome to Amsterdam's "fashion library". Billed as one of the world's only physical centres for renting…

AFP/APP Bandung: Three people were killed and at least 28 injured when two trains collided on Indonesia's main island of Java on Friday, officials said. The crash took place at 6:03 am local time (1103 GMT) near rice fields in…

SPA/APP Madinah: The visitors Prophet's Mosque from around the world will receive over 326,000 technical services in 2023. The departments and divisions, throughout 2023, operating under the General Authority for the Care of the Affairs…

AFP/APP New Delhi: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina still grieves the assassination of her father, the country's founder, nearly 50 years ago, and her government ensures the nation grieves with her. Once sidelined from…

APP New York: In the midst of a recent surge in anti-Muslim hostility, an imam was fatally shot outside a mosque in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday, as confirmed by authorities. The victim, 52-year-old Hassan Sharif, an African-American,…

SPA/APP Jeddah: The scientific committee of the conference titled "Update on Common Endocrine Disorders and Paediatric Rare Diseases," to be held in Jeddah from January 18 to 20, has approved 48 working sheets presented by a distinguished…

AFP/APP Beirut: The Hezbollah group warned that Israel's killing Tuesday of the deputy Hamas leader in a Beirut suburb they control "will not go unanswered or unpunished". Hezbollah called it "a serious assault on Lebanon". Read More: …