To facilitate the movement of God’s guests between Makkah and Madinah and to provide a more comfortable and seamless travel experience, the Saudi Railways Company (SAR) has announced that it will be significantly increasing the number of trips and seats on the Haramain High-Speed train during Ramadan 2025. In collaboration with the Saudi-Spanish Railway Project […]
The new Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, or Democratic Student Council, includes key organizers from the powerful Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group that spearheaded the uprising that overthrew iron-fisted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August. Politics in Bangladesh are notoriously fractious and other students then accused them of undermining the revolution. Disputes over over-representation led to […]
“(North Korea) was responsible for the theft of approximately USD 1.5 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit,” the FBI said in a public service announcement. The bureau said a group called TraderTraitor, also known as the Lazarus Group, was behind the theft. It said they were “proceeding rapidly and have converted some of […]
Births declined 5% from a year earlier, while the number of deaths hit a record high of 1.62 million, meaning more than two people died for every new baby born. Earlier, South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on […]
The additional troops have been sent to the battlegrounds in Russia’s Kursk region, the reports said. Russian forces are fighting Ukrainian troops who thrust across the border into the western Russia region. The spokesperson’s office at the National Intelligence Service (NIS) did not answer telephone calls seeking comment. North Korea has deployed more than 11,000 […]
The memo became public as part of a court filing in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s late January executive order that was aimed at barring military service by transgender personnel. “Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military […]
Roberts issued an interim order placing on hold Washington-based U.S. District Judge Amir Ali’s action that had imposed a deadline of 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. Roberts provided no rationale for the order, known as an administrative stay, which will give the court additional time to consider the administration’s more formal request to block Ali’s ruling. […]
“Nothing justifies the appalling manner in which Israel has conducted its military operations in Gaza which consistently breached international law”, said Volker Turk, while presenting a new report on the human rights situation in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report by the UN Office […]
Billionaire supporter and advisor Elon Musk, tasked with overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has sought to fire thousands of federal workers, will be among those in attendance at the meeting. Despite Musk’s lack of ministerial portfolio or formal decision-making authority, he is classified as a “special government employee” and “senior adviser to […]
Washington’s top Middle East envoy said talks for a second phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal remained on track. Palestinian militant group Hamas late Tuesday confirmed the release agreement, negotiated under Egyptian supervision. In Washington, US President Donald Trump’s point person on the Middle East said Israeli representatives were already en route to talks on […]
