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DHAKA: Bangladesh partially restored telecommunications services on Wednesday, although internet connections were slow and social media remained suspended, days after deadly protests against government job reservations killed nearly 150 people. The country has been mostly calm since Sunday, when the Supreme Court reduced reservations for various categories to 7 percent, overturning a high court verdict … Read more

REASI: A newly completed bridge towering high over a gorge in the rugged Himalayas will soon help India consolidate control over disputed Kashmir and counter a growing strategic threat from China. The Chenab Railway Bridge, the tallest of its kind in the world, has been hailed as an engineering feat that connects the troubled Kashmir … Read more

PARIS: There will be no flags or fanfare for Daniil Medvedev at the Paris Olympics, but the most high-profile Russian athlete in the French capital is unlikely to be far from the headlines. The tennis star, along with other Russians and Belarusians, must compete as neutrals at the Games following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. After … Read more

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will deliver his final speech in the Oval Office on Wednesday to explain why he has given up on the November election, denying he will spend six months as a lame duck. With the world already watching the looming showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Biden will … Read more

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Israeli athletes were “welcome” at the Paris Olympics, rejecting calls for a boycott by some left-wing French lawmakers and the Palestinian Olympic Committee. “Israeli athletes are welcome in our country. They must be able to compete under their colors because the Olympic movement decided that,” he … Read more

PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Israeli athletes were “welcome” at the Paris Olympics, rejecting calls for a boycott by some left-wing French lawmakers and the Palestinian Olympic Committee. “Israeli athletes are welcome in our country. They must be able to compete under their colors because the Olympic movement decided that,” he … Read more

N'DJAMENA: Chad repatriated 157 of its citizens who were detained in neighboring Libya on Tuesday in cooperation with the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Libyan state, its foreign ministry said in a statement. Chadian citizens were flown back to the Sahel country on a special flight, the statement said.

LONDON: The Israeli military has killed dozens of Palestinian civilians and injured hundreds of others, including children, in its relentless pursuit of Hamas commanders in Gaza, despite designating many of its operational areas as “safe zones”. Palestinian medics said Monday that 16 civilians were killed in the eastern part of Khan Younis under Israeli shelling, … Read more

TUNIS: More than half of Tunisia's mostly sub-Saharan migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are currently living in “inadequate conditions”, a domestic human rights group said on Tuesday. In its latest study on migration, the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) found that “more than half” of migrants in Tunisia lived “on the street, … Read more