DAKAR: Gunmen have kidnapped five Indian nationals in Mali, their company and a security source said Friday, as the west African country reels from mounting unrest and militant violence. The workers were kidnapped Thursday by gunmen near Kobri, in western Mali, the security source told AFP on condition of anonymity, saying they were employed by

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DUBAI: On a small street in Beirut, the sound of an oud drifts through the open doors of a small cafe called Orenda. Inside, all eyes turn to Joe Kamel as his melody takes over, replacing the cafe’s buzz with a slower, softer mood. A pharmacist by day, Kamel has built a second life through

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JERUSALEM: Israel on Friday denounced as a “PR stunt” arrest warrants for genocide issued by Turkiye against its leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office – which, as recalled, recently orchestrated the arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul merely for daring to run against Erdoğan – has now issued “arrest warrants” for

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TUNIS: Prominent Tunisian opposition figures including Rached Ghannouchi said Friday they would go on hunger strike in solidarity with a jailed politician whose health they say has severely deteriorated after nine days without food. Jawhar Ben Mbarek, co-founder of the National Salvation Front, Tunisia’s main opposition alliance, launched a hunger strike last week to protest

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BERLIN: NATO chief Mark Rutte said the success earlier this month of the military alliance’s annual nuclear exercise gave him “absolute confidence in the credibility of NATO’s nuclear deterrence” in the face of Russian threats. “When Russia is using dangerous and reckless nuclear rhetoric, our populations must know that there is no need to panic,

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BRUSSELS: A Belgian jihadist accused of acts of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria — and presumed killed in conflict — went on trial in absentia Thursday in Brussels. Sammy Djedou, a former fighter with the Daesh group, or Islamic State, was reported by the Pentagon to have been killed in

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Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” takes readers inside the chaos of the financial crash of 1929, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivete in an endless boom led to disaster.  The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world

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GENEVA:  An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that the trend could still be reversed. While this year will not surpass 2024 as the hottest recorded, it will rank second or third, capping more than a

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Many women in India’s cricket World Cup winning team come from small towns and humble beginnings.

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Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade  The Washington Post Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package  CNN Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package  The New York Times The pope hates it. Norway hates it. Elon Musk calls critics of the plan ‘corporate terrorists.’ Welcome to Tesla’s

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