GENEVA: The UN experts on Monday deplored the use of purported AI and related military directives by Israel in Gaza, causing damage to civilian structures and services. “If proven true, the shocking revelations of the use of AI systems by the Israeli military such as ‘Gospel,’ ‘Lavender’ and ‘Where’s Daddy?’ combined with lowered human due […]
SYDNEY: A number of people were wounded in a stabbing incident during a service at a church in a suburb of Sydney on Monday, police said. It was the second reported mass stabbing in just three days in Sydney after six people were killed in a knife attack at a mall in the Bondi area. […]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid on Monday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of leading to a “total loss of Israeli deterrence” in the wake of an unprecedented Iranian attack. In a scathing criticism posted on X, former premier Lapid also said that under Netanyahu, “Jewish terrorist violence” against Palestinians in the occupied West […]
DUBAI/ BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON: Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but US officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles on Saturday in a retaliatory […]
GAZA: Israel launched dozens of air strikes onthe besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza overnight, Hamas said Monday, as the Israeli army said it will not be distracted from the war after Iran’s retaliatory attack heightened fears of a wider conflict. World powers have urged restraint after Iran late Saturday launched more than 300 drones and […]
At least 33 people have been killed over three days of heavy rains and flash flooding in Afghanistan, the government’s disaster management department said Sunday. “From Friday onward, because of the rains there were flash floods which caused high human and financial losses,” department spokesman Janan Sayeq said. “The primary information shows that, unfortunately, in […]
DUBAI/ JERUSALEM/ WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the US will not take part in a counter-offensive against Iran if Israel decides to retaliate for a mass drone and missile attack on Israeli territory overnight, a White House official said. The threat of open warfare erupting between the arch Middle East foes […]
ANKARA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and China’s top legislator Zhao Leji met on Saturday in Pyongyang, and vowed to deepen bilateral ties amid heightened tensions in the Korean Peninsula, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported. Kim said Pyongyang is willing to “deepen traditional friendship and write a new chapter” in ties. He observed […]
JERUSALEM: Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi warned Israel and its allies on Sunday against any “reckless” actions after Tehran’s drone and missile attack in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on its Damascus consulate. “If the Zionist regime or its supporters demonstrate reckless behaviour, they will receive a decisive and much stronger response,” Raisi said in […]
MOSCOW: Russia calls for restraint after Iranian strikes on Israel Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of missiles and drones in retaliation to its Embassy attack in Syria Russia said on Sunday it was extremely concerned by Iranian strikes on Israel and called on all parties to exercise restraint but said tensions would remain high until […]
