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Assailant shot by soldiers in a gunfight before being arrested and taken to hospital, embassy reports staff ‘safe’.A gunman who fired on the embassy of the United States in Beirut has been arrested after he was injured in return fire. The attack on the embassy on Wednesday morning was carried out by a Syrian national, according to the Lebanese military. The incident comes amid heightened tensions across the region as Israel continues its war in Gaza. The assailant, who was wounded in a gunfight with soldiers, has been arrested and taken to hospital. The army said in a statement on…

India’s stock market took its worst tumble in four years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its parliamentary majority. The shock outcome of Tuesday’s election count means Modi will need to rely on smaller parties to form a governing majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament, raising uncertainty about the Indian leader’s ability to pursue his pro-business agenda. The NSE Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex indexes closed at 5.93 percent and 5.74 percent lower, respectively, on Tuesday, after falling by as much as 8.5 percent earlier in the day. Indian…

PodcastPodcast, The TakeFamine is looming in Sudan more than a year after the war started. With limited aid, Sudanese try to fill the gap. In Sudan, if nothing changes, it is projected that 2.5 million people could die by September. Yet the international community has funded less than 15 percent of the aid needed. Aid that does arrive may be blocked or looted. So, what are the Sudanese doing to fill the gap? In this episode:  Episode credits: This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Chloe K Li and Sonia Bhagat with Duha Mossad and Sarí el-Khalili and our host…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Palestinians flee tank fire and the latest ground assault by Israeli soldiers, this time on Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, which has been hit by intense air raids. Source link

Indian stocks have suffered their worst intraday fall since March 2020 and foreign investors sold the most on record, as vote-counting trends in the general election suggested Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was unlikely to win the overwhelming majority predicted by exit polls. With over half the votes counted on Tuesday, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looked unlikely to secure a majority on its own in the 543-member lower house of parliament and likely to need allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to form the government. That could lead to some uncertainty over economic policies, such as the push…

The United States circulated on Monday a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council urging members to back a three-phase Gaza ceasefire plan that US President Joe Biden announced last week. Under the first stage of the plan – which Biden says is an Israeli proposal – a six-week ceasefire would hold, during which the Israeli army would withdraw from populated areas of Gaza. Some Israeli captives would also be exchanged in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Civilians would be allowed to move across Gaza, including the north, with 600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the enclave daily.…

As the war on Gaza closes in on eight months of violence, support in Israel for the campaign is waning. Columns in The Jerusalem Post speak of compassion fatigue while on the fringes of Gaza, reservists tell American journalists of the toll the relentless violence has taken. None of this concern, or compassion fatigue, extends to the more than 36,000 Palestinians killed so far. “I believe the Israeli public’s support for the war might be flagging,” Shai Parnes said by phone from Jerusalem, “but probably not for the reasons you’re thinking.” War fatigue for a people divided Parnes, spokesperson for…

NewsFeedForests in northern Israel have been engulfed by wildfires started by Hezbollah rockets from south Lebanon.Published On 4 Jun 20244 Jun 2024 Source link

Social media platform says sexualised content can be ‘legitimate form of artistic expression.’Elon Musk’s social media platform X has updated its policies to formally allow adult content. Under the updated guidelines, the platform formerly known as Twitter will allow users to share sexualised content so long as it is consensual and clearly labelled. The revised policy, which was updated over the weekend, states that “users should be able to create, distribute, and consume material related to sexual themes as long as it is consensually produced and distributed”. “Sexual expression, whether visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic…

Weidong Guan is accused of involvement in ‘sprawling’ scheme to launder money to benefit himself and the right-wing outlet.A top executive at the Epoch Times, a New York-based conservative media outlet known for its fierce criticism of the Chinese government, has been arrested over his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme. Weidong “Bill” Guan, the outlet’s chief financial officer, is alleged to have participated in a “sprawling, transnational scheme” to launder at least $67m in illegally obtained funds to benefit himself and the company, the United States Department of Justice said on Monday. Under the management of Guan, members…