HONG KONG: Crude prices surged Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears.While safe haven gold pushed almost two percent higher, the news from CNN appeared to be having little detrimental effect on Asian […]
After several days of strike and halt of train services in New Jersey, the commuters will finally get some relief as the train services will resume on Tuesday after the transit workers and authorities have come to a temporary agreement after a long time of misery. Train engineers went on a statewide strike to get […]
Representative Image (AP) BEIRUT: Lebanon said two people including a soldier were wounded in an Israeli strike Sunday in the country’s south, where the army has been deploying after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.“A soldier was moderately wounded due to the Israeli enemy targeting of a vehicle… at the Beit Yahun checkpoint” in Bint […]
KYIV: A Russian drone hit a bus evacuating civilians from a front-line area in Ukraine‘s northeastern Sumy region Saturday, killing nine people, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow and Kyiv had held their first direct peace talks in years that failed to yield a ceasefire.Seven people were also injured in the attack in Bilopillia, a […]
A New Jersey transit train pulls into the Secaucus Junction station (Image: AP) New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike Friday, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout comes after the latest round of negotiations […]
Image credit: AP An Israeli strike on Yemen’s Sanaa airport on Tuesday has led to its “complete destruction”, airport officials said. The Israeli warplanes struck the airport in the Houthi-controlled capital which came in response to a missile attack by the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels targeting Israel’s main airport.Residents reported power cuts in Sanaa and the […]
Airports in the Russian capital were shut down for several hours on Tuesday after Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow for a second consecutive night, prompting a large-scale response from Russia’s air defence systems, as reported by Reuters.At least 19 drones were destroyed by the defence unit which were approaching “from different directions” as said by Moscow […]
(Source: X) A massive crater was left just outside an airport in Israel after a ballistic missile, fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, struck near the country’s busiest air hub, Ben Gurion International Airport, early Sunday.The impact site, located next to an access road near Terminal 3, carved out a crater reportedly 25 metres wide […]
Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to retaliate against Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels after a missile struck near Israel’s main international airport.“We have acted against them in the past and we will act in the future, but I cannot go into detail (…) it will not happen in one […]
In a dramatic escalation of its immigration enforcement agenda, the Trump administration has rolled out a new policy enabling the US government to revoke the visas of foreign nationals—students, workers, and visitors alike—for even minor legal infractions.The “Catch and Revoke” directive, unveiled by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the April 30 edition of the […]
