In an interview with the state news agency IRNA, Baghaei was reported as “categorically denying such a meeting” and expressing “surprise at the coverage of the American media in this regard”. Iranian media was divided over a reported meeting between Tehran’s ambassador to the United Nations and tech billionaire Elon Musk — with some describing […]
“While taxiing for takeoff at Dallas Love Field Airport, Southwest Airlines Flight 2494 was reportedly struck by gunfire near the cockpit,” a statement on the FAA’s website said. “The Boeing 737-800 returned to the gate, where passengers deplaned.” The incident happened at around 8:30 pm Friday (0230 GMT Saturday), with the flight headed from Dallas, […]
The bout between the 27-year-old social media influencer-turned-prizefighter Paul and the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Tyson was streamed live on Netflix and played out in front of a sold-out crowd at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Earlier, Mike Tyson could not wait to put on the gloves to take a shot at upcoming opponent Jake Paul, […]
China has no plan to surpass or replace the United States, Xie Feng said in a speech in Hong Kong on Friday, addressing Chinese officials and the U.S. ambassador to China. Beijing is seeking to reset relations with Washington ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency in January. Trump has pledged to impose tariffs […]
Explosions were reported earlier on Friday in the vicinity of Damascus. “Israeli aggression targets Mazzeh area in Damascus,” SANA said in a news flash. It gave no other details. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Commanders in Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards based in Syria have been known to reside in […]
Around 255,000 people have fled their homes ahead of Super Typhoon Man-yi, which is expected to make landfall later Saturday or early Sunday, becoming the sixth major storm to pummel the archipelago nation in the past month. With wind gusts of up to 230 kilometers per hour (about 140 miles per hour), Man-yi was on […]
Gross domestic product slipped by 0.1% in monthly terms during September as the services sector flat-lined, while manufacturing and construction dropped, the Office for National Statistics said. For the third quarter as a whole, the economy grew by 0.1%, slowing from 0.5% growth during the second quarter. Economists polled by the Bank of England had […]
The union is demanding, among other things, wage increases in line with inflation, cost-of-living adjustment payments to be rolled into the basic wage rate, and safe working conditions. The union had issued a three-day strike notice to Canada Post earlier this week. “After a year of bargaining with little progress, postal workers made the difficult […]
The agency said the quake’s epicentre was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles). During this month, several international airlines cancelled flights to and from Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, after further eruptions of a volcano that has spewed ash clouds as high as 10 km (32,808 ft) and forced thousands to evacuate. Jetstar […]
Israel, in response, accused the organization of using rhetoric that is “completely false and detached from reality”. The report is the latest in a series from aid groups and international bodies warning about the dire humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave. “Human Rights Watch found that forced displacement has been widespread, and the evidence shows […]
