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Pope Leo heads to Rome hospital for lung operation
Pope Leo XIV was due to be admitted to hospital in Rome on Tuesday for surgery to remove a nodule on his lung, an operation experts say is generally low-risk. The 71-year-old will head to the Gemelli hospital in the late morning, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told AFP. The surgery to remove a pulmonary nodule, or […]
New Delhi police detain top ‘cockroach’ leaders after flash protest at Jantar Mantar
India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said on Tuesday that key leaders had been detained after entering an iconic protest site in New Delhi blocked by police. Opposition parties and supporters of the movement have taken to the streets in recent days, defying a security clampdown to demand the resignation of the head of India’s election commission, accusing it of manipulating […]
Iran to respond to US through intermediaries after reviewing Hormuz proposal
TEHRAN: Iran is reviewing a US response to its proposal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and will convey its reply to Washington through intermediaries once the assessment is complete, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference, Baghaei said Tehran continued to exchange messages with Washington through intermediaries, […]
Closure of Riyadh airport extended after deadly Houthi strikes
Saudi authorities said on Monday they were extending the suspension of operations at the international airport in the capital, Riyadh, after deadly weekend attacks by Yemen’s Houthis. Operations at King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia’s second-busiest airport after Jeddah, were suspended to “allow for the completion of procedures to ensure the safety and operational readiness of the […]
Trump pauses Iran strikes, agrees to two-week ceasefire after Pakistan’s intervention
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, less than two hours before his deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, after discussions with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Field Marshal Asim Munir. […]
Dubious AI detectors drive ‘pay-to-humanise’ scam
Feed an Iranian news dispatch or a literary classic into some text detectors, and they return the same verdict: AI-generated. Then comes the pitch: pay to “humanise” the writing, a pattern experts say bears the hallmarks of a scam. As AI falsehoods explode across social media, often outpacing the capacity of professional fact-checkers, bogus detectors […]
Raza admits hosting visitors but cites lack of awareness of new PSL rules
LAHORE: Zimbabwe all-rounder Sikandar Raza has said that neither he nor Lahore Qalandars captain Shaheen Shah Afridi were aware of the updated Pakistan Super League (PSL) security protocol prohibiting players from hosting close relatives or friends in their hotel rooms. Raza made the remarks at a post-match press conference on Sunday following Lahore Qalandars’ four-wicket […]
Iran war: What is happening on day 32 of US-Israel attacks?
As the war on Iran enters day 32, US and Israeli air strikes continue across Iran, with powerful explosions reported in Tehran and Isfahan. In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said communication between Tehran and Washington is ongoing, mostly through intermediaries, adding US war objectives would be […]
Iran war wipes $120bn off Dubai, Abu Dhabi stock markets
The United Arab Emirates’ stock markets in Dubai and Abu Dhabi have lost around $120bn in value since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, placing them among the hardest-hit financial markets worldwide. Dubai and Abu Dhabi’s benchmark indexes have plunged about 16 percent and 9 percent, respectively, since the United States and Israel […]
War returns to Iran with Israel, US strikes
The US and Israel on Feb 28 launched what they described as a “pre-emptive” joint strike against Iranian targets, with Trump announcing start of “major combat operations”Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assassinated in US-Israeli strikes; Mojtaba Khamenei replaces his father as Iran’s new supreme leaderTrump sends 15-point peace proposal to Iran via Pakistan. Iran lays […]