Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he supported Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election, an apparent wry remark a day after Washington accused Moscow of seeking to influence the vote. Putin often comments on political and social issues in the United States, often with sarcasm. He said last year that the US…
China on Monday rolled out the red carpet for leaders from across Africa, including President Bola Tinubu, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with billions in loans for infrastructure and development. Beijing has said this week’s China-Africa forum will be its largest diplomatic event since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages killed by Hamas militants in Gaza – including an Israeli-American captive. In a tweet on Sunday, IDF named the victims as Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Ori Danin. Goldberg-Polin was a California native who was…
The UAE said Tuesday it had requested consular services for Telegram’s Pavel Durov after the Dubai-based tech boss was arrested in France over alleged failings to curb criminality on the app. “The UAE is closely following the case of its citizen Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, who was arrested by the French authorities in Paris–Le…
At least 30 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last Oct. 7 to 40,435, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Monday. A ministry statement added that some 93,534 other people have been injured in the assault. “Israeli forces killed 30 people and…
Hezbollah said it had carried out a large-scale attack with rockets and drones on Israeli positions on Sunday in an “initial response” to a top commander’s killing, as Israel launched what it called pre-emptive strikes against the group. “The number of Katyusha rockets launched until now is more than 320… towards enemy positions,” a Hezbollah…
Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unnamed sources. Durov was travelling aboard his private jet, TF1 said on its website, adding he had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as…
One of the world’s largest diamonds ever unearthed—a rough 2,492-carat stone—has been found in Botswana, a Canadian mining company that discovered the gem announced Thursday. The diamond was found in the Karowe Diamond Mine in northeastern Botswana, about 430 kilometres (270 miles) from the capital Gaborone, Lucara Diamond Corp. said in a statement. Lucara did…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that a Chinese firm on a confiscation blitz of Nigerian assets has finalised repossession of a luxury jet owned by the West African country in Canada. According to Peoples Gazette, Zhongshang Fucheng Industrial Investment Ltd recently received a change of custodian paperwork for the Bombardier 6000 type BD-700-1A10 aircraft from Canadian authorities…
Israeli police said Monday that a “powerful” explosion the night before in Tel Aviv was a “terror attack” that wounded one person and prompted heightened alert. “This was a terror attack involving the explosion of a powerful explosive,” the force said in a statement. On Sunday authorities reported that the blast in the commercial hub…