Damascus: Syria is considering providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia as Riyadh and Yemeni government forces intensify their campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen. The discussions include the possibility of deploying Syrian forces to Yemen, although no final decision has been made. Damascus has publicly rejected suggestions that it has already agreed to send troops. The issue was reportedly discussed during Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on October 6. Saudi Arabia is seeking additional support as its-backed Yemeni forces attempt to reverse Houthi territorial gains. Several forms of assistance…
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Washington (Reuters): The Trump administration has opened direct talks with Myanmar’s military-installed government, reversing years of US efforts to isolate the country’s generals after the 2021 coup. US officials and others familiar with the outreach said the talks could lead to wider engagement. The initial focus includes shutting down scam centers that target Americans. Officials have also discussed access to Myanmar’s large deposits of heavy rare-earth minerals. High-Level Contact US Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Michael Vance played a leading role in the new outreach. He met coup leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw on September 15-16.…
RIYADH: Three people were killed and dozens wounded in attacks on Saudi airports as fighting intensified between Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. Saudi Airports Hit Saudi civil aviation authorities said one person died and eight people suffered injuries at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Two others died and 28 people were wounded in an attack on facilities at Abha airport. The attacks took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, Saudi authorities did not say which incident occurred on each day. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis promised retaliation. It later said its forces had struck more than…
PARIS: Demonstrations swept across France on Tuesday as teachers, parents and high school students joined the biggest day of protests yet over conditions in the country’s schools. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent groups on the fringes of marches in Paris, Strasbourg, Rennes and Toulouse. The Interior Ministry said more than 250,000 people took part in demonstrations across dozens of cities, while organizers estimated the turnout at 450,000. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff had been injured in clashes, describing the toll as the heaviest in decades for France’s school…
Itai Bar and Nils Benkman Anyone who watches the much-discussed Israeli documentary Naza , about the large-scale and structural destruction of Palestinian life, can also discover a Dutch touch. The Israeli army, after all, made use of a data center in the northern part of North Holland. In the Netherlands, we love highlighting our contributions abroad. Footballers with a Dutch background who shone with Cape Verde at the World Cup, dredgers who helped protect Venice from the sea: when we can mention our little frog country, we beam with pride. But not all Dutch achievements are presented to the world…
NEW YORK (Reuters): The United States removed its B-1 bombers from a UK air base one week after several men were arrested there on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, a Pentagon official said on Sunday. A dozen B-1 bombers were stationed at RAF Fairford air base, located northwest of London. The planes had been used for US strikes on Iran. “While operational security precluded us from confirming the movement of our assets and forces in real-time, we can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States,”…
Lahore Mirror: Afghanistan’s children are already facing drought, floods, extreme heat and dust storms. Now, the desperate search for water is creating another danger: deep, narrow wells that have become deadly traps. In Afghanistan, the struggle for water is increasingly reaching underground. As drought dries up traditional water sources, communities are being forced to dig deeper wells in search of groundwater. But these wells can bring a new danger, especially for children. Narrow shafts can extend dozens or even hundreds of feet into the ground, often with little protection around their openings. A child can disappear into one in seconds.…
London (Reuters): Britain’s Green Party voted on Sunday to class Zionism as a form of racism, drawing criticism from British Jews and from the Israeli government which said it now viewed the party as “a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism”. The party – which received 6% of the vote in national elections in 2024 – said it regarded Zionism as “an ethnonationality political project” and repeated its call for Britain’s Labour government to end all arms trade with Israel. “The motion also restates the Green Party’s backing for the right to self-determination and calls for the establishment of a single…
Ayaz Khan Lohani Lahore Mirror: In the early 1990s, Pakistan was moving through a profound cultural and political transition. Against this backdrop, the musical revolution that had begun in the late 1980s was reaching a defining moment. At the forefront was Vital Signs, a group of young musicians who had evolved from a college-band project into national icons. Following the extraordinary success of their self-titled debut in 1989 and the darker, more experimental Vital Signs 2 in 1991, the band stood at an important creative crossroads. The response came with Aitebar, released in the early 1990s. More than simply another…
ITHACA, New York, (Reuters): Cornell University student Sophia Riley Sim skipped classes this week, consumed by allegations in a lawsuit that several members of a fraternity raped a young woman in 2024 and troubled by how her university handled the case. “Cornell has failed our community through its lack of accountability, transparency, and failure to address the state of the Cornell student body at this time,” Sim, a junior, said at a public hearing on sexual assault organized by Cornell’s Student Assembly on Thursday. “There has been a lack of meaningful communication from university leadership, administrators, and faculty.” The Ivy League…
