The Israeli army has detained roughly 100 Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since dawn Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Association said in a Friday statement. According to the NGO, the latest spate of arrests included two members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Palestine’s long-moribund parliament. The association went on to assert that…
Hindustan Times At least five people, including two children, died and about 80 others took ill Friday after consuming ‘prasad’ at a temple at Sulivadi village in Chamarajnagar district, police said. The condition of 12 people was critical and they have been taken to Mysuru for treatment, they said. The deceased have been identified as…
Yao Meng/Global Times French President Emmanuel Macron has announced wage hikes for poor workers and tax cuts for pensioners, offering concessions after two weeks of yellow vest protests, but refused to restore the solidarity tax on wealth (ISF). The reinstatement of ISF, transformed early in 2018 into real estate tax (IFI), is still among the…
DOT Desk The law enforcement agencies remain on high alert in the capital and across the country to ensure a congenial atmosphere for polls, reports The Daily Star. As part of the move, all additional inspector generals, deputy inspector generals, superintendents of police have been asked to remain alert so that no vested quarters can…
Mick O’Reilly, Foreign Correspondent/Gulf News EU27 may offer political platitudes, but there’s no more dealing to be done What part of ‘no’ doesn’t British Prime Minister Theresa May understand? Seriously, there’s only so many ways you can say it — and a host of European leaders have been saying it since Monday. No to reopening…
U.S. stocks were set to drop sharply at the open on Friday as weak economic data from China and Europe exacerbated global growth fears and added to nerves over the U.S.-China trade talks. Equity futures fell about 0.8 percent after data showed weak monthly retail sales growth and industrial output in China, with sluggish Euro…
A seven-year-old girl has died after being taken into custody by the US Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Thursday. The girl, from Guatemala, died of dehydration and shock eight hours after she was taken into custody, the Washington Post reported. On December 6, the child and her father had been…
DOT Desk British playwright JB Priestley’s classic play ‘An Inspector Calls’, which is set in 1912, seems to be equally haunting and riveting after all these years, reports The New Age. The play is still a sensible and important reminder that not much has changed in the last one hundred or so years regarding the…
DOT Desk Pakistan will host the next Asia Cup cricket, new Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Nazmul Hassan Papon said, reports The Independent. “The next Asia Cup will be hosted by Pakistan, and the hosting right belongs to them. Where they will host the tournament, it’s up to them,” he said while talking to the…
A “state-of-the-art” robot that appeared in a report on Russia’s main TV news channel was revealed by internet users to be a man in a costume. It presented as a dancing, singing robot at a technology forum for school pupils. “At the forum there’s the opportunity to see state-of-the-art robots,” the presenter said as the…