PARIS, Aug 25 (BBC): Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Mr Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported.According to officials the 39-year-old billionaire was arrested under a warrant for offences...
Read moreJERUSALEM, Aug 25 (BBC/AP): Israel says its warplanes have struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after detecting moves to launch an aerial attack on Israel.The Israeli military said around 100 fighter jets had destroyed "thousands" of rocket launchers on Sunday morning, in what it described as an act of "self-defence". Lebanon's...
Read moreKABUL, Aug 25 (AP): The Taliban's new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women's voices and bare faces in public provide a "distressing vision" for Afghanistan's future, a top U.N. official warned Sunday.Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in the country, said the laws extend the...
Read moreNEW YORK, Aug 25 (BBC): Two Nasa astronauts who have been stuck in space for over two months will return to Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX.Nasa said the Boeing Starliner spacecraft the astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had travelled to International Space Station (ISS) on would return to...
Read moreBRASILIA, Aug 25 (BBC): A crisis cabinet has been set up by the São Paulo state government to deal with wildfires which have put 30 Brazilian cities on alert.Flames have killed two people and smoke has disrupted traffic on a dozen highways, while the capital, São Paulo, is shrouded in...
Read moreISLAMABAD, Aug 25 (Reuters): Two bus accidents in northeast and southwest Pakistan killed at least 35 people on Sunday, the authorities said.Twelve pilgrims died on the Makran Coastal Highway in the southwest, the interior ministry said, while a rescue official said 22 had died when their passenger bus plunged into...
Read moreCAIRO, Aug 25 (AP): A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving more than two dozen people dead or missing, the U.N. migration agency said Sunday, the latest in a string of shipwrecks that have left scores dead.Despite a nearly decade-long civil war, Yemen - which borders...
Read moreJAKARTA, Aug 25 (Reuters): Indonesia's election body secured parliament's nod on Sunday to issue new rules in line with demands from protesters, who have been furious over an attempt by allies of outgoing President Joko Widodo to change eligibility requirements in their favour.Demonstrations flared up in several cities in Indonesia...
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