GENEVA: The United Nations Human Rights Council held a moment of silence on Monday to remember the “innocent lives lost” in Israel and Gaza. At the request of the United States, the UN’s top rights body stood to honour those killed following Saturday’s surprise Hamas attack on Israel, as the
DRESDEN (Germany): Volkswagen’s factory in the heart of the east German city of Dresden was conceived as a showcase for the auto giant’s electric future but on a September afternoon the production line stands still. Rather than serving as a shining example, the site, where the group’s flagship electric model
WASHINGTON: US employers stepped up their hiring pace unexpectedly in September while unemployment held steady, government data showed on Friday, adding pressure on policymakers seeking to cool the economy. The US economy added 336,000 jobs last month in the highest surge since January, and the jobless rate was unchanged at
GAZA CITY (Palestinian Territories): Barrages of rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip at dawn Saturday as militants from the blockaded Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, with at least one person killed, the army and medics said. Rockets streamed across the sky repeatedly after the first launches from multiple
SINGAPORE: Air quality in parts of Singapore hit unhealthy levels on Saturday as winds brought haze from Indonesian forest fires to the city-state, its environment agency said. A prolonged dry season has led to a higher risk of wildfires on Indonesia’s major islands, stoking fears of a repeat of the
GENEVA: Global trade growth will be sharply lower than forecast this year as stubborn inflation, high interest rates and the war in Ukraine pressure economies around the globe, the World Trade Organisation said. Strains in China’s vast property market also prompted the WTO to cut its trade growth forecast to
PARIS: Global sugar prices soared to their highest level in almost 13 years in September as the El Nino weather phenomenon hit production in India and Thailand, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Friday. While world food prices steadied as a whole last month, the FAO’s Sugar Price Index jumped
MANILA: Filipinos roared in joy and relief as their men’s basketball team ended decades of heartbreak in winning their first Asian Games gold medal in 61 years. Many in the basketball-crazy nation of 110 million people were glued to television and mobile phone screens as the “Gilas”, Tagalog for panache,
LOS ANGELES: Tens of thousands of health care workers in the United States walked off the job on Wednesday, beginning one of the sector’s largest strikes in recent history, as America’s year of labour discontent rolled on. The walkout of more than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente, the country’s largest
TOKYO: Japan began releasing the second batch of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, an incremental step in a decadeslong process that has drawn strong condemnation from China. The discharge, a small portion of the 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater built up since a tsunami struck the
