S Iswaran accused of receiving gifts worth $14,000 from individual who had business dealings with Transport Ministry. Singapore’s former Transport Minister S Iswaran has been slapped with eight new charges in a rare corruption case involving the city-state’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). The charges relate to allegations that Iswaran obtained valuable goods worth about … Read more
Meta spokesperson says the company is working on the issue. Users of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms are experiencing login issues in what appears to be a widespread outage. The social media platforms were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The disruptions … Read more
Rescuers search rubble after two S-300 missiles hit the centre of Ukraine’s second-biggest city. At least 17 people have been injured, two of them seriously, after Russian missiles hit residential buildings in the city of Kharkiv. Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said that two S-300 missiles hit buildings in the centre of Ukraine’s second-biggest city late … Read more
Israel-linked merchant vessel hit by drone attack in Indian Ocean, alert issued | Oneindia Oneindia News Drone strike hits ship off India’s coast — maritime agencies The Times of Israel Ship Hit By Drone Was Carrying Crude Oil To Mangalore: What We Know So Far NDTV UK Marine Agency Receives Report of Attack on Ship off Indian Coast Bloomberg … Read more
Israel’s attacks on Gaza have stretched into a second day after a seven-day truce with Hamas ended as Qatar and Egypt mediate talks to renew a pause in hostilities. The United Nations said on Saturday that the fighting would worsen the extreme humanitarian emergency in Gaza. “Hell on Earth has returned to Gaza,” said Jens … Read more
Israel has kept up its relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip amid growing signs that talks about a truce between Israel and Hamas are making progress. In Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza where hundreds of thousands of residents of the north have fled to escape Israeli bombing, neighbours said on Tuesday that … Read more
Leader of UN’s meteorological agency says the world is still ‘heading in the wrong direction’ and must cut use of fossil fuels. The United Nations says the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere surged to new highs last year as climate change fuelled extreme weather across the globe. In a bulletin released on Wednesday, … Read more
Crying in a hospital bed with a nebuliser mask on his tiny face, one-month-old Ayansh Tiwari has a thick, hacking cough. His doctors blame the acrid air that blights New Delhi every year. The spartan emergency room of the government-run Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya hospital in the Indian capital is crowded with children struggling to … Read more
Gaza war: Israeli air raids hit popular cafe and shopping centre in Khan Younis Al Jazeera English Chaos and devastation after strike in Gaza’s south CBC.ca Video shows aftermath of deadly explosion at U.N.-run school in Khan Younis NBC News Israel continues striking targets in northern and southern Gaza | DW News DW News Israel-Palestine War: Several Palestinian babies … Read more
Israel says Palestinian fighters bombed Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital in a misfire. Is that true? Doha, Qatar – Al Jazeera’s Sanad Agency has investigated the Israeli claim that the bombing of Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital was the result of a rocket misfire from Palestinian Islamic Jihad and not a result of Israel’s relentless bombing of … Read more