Kenya Airways warns of disruptions in holiday season due to spare parts shortages
Kenya Airways, whose strategy hinges on connecting African travellers to the world and vice-versa through its Nairobi hub, operates a fleet of Boeing and Embraer planes.
How Indian state-funded Research and Analysis Wing criminal gang has infiltrated US, Canada and Europe
ikh diaspora activists have alleged Indian government involvement in the mysterious deaths of other dissidents, including, most recently, a 35-year-old British citizen named Avtar Singh Khanda, who died this year in what his family claims to be a case of poisoning.
Revealed: How India plans, carries out sophisticated scheme to kill exiled Sikh separatists
The document instructs officials at its consulates to cooperate with Indian intelligence agencies to confront the groups Sikhs for Justice, Babbar Khalsa International, Sikh Youth of America, Sikh Coordination Committee East Coast, World Sikh Parliament, and Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar America. It suggests that Nijjar and several other “suspects” are affiliated with one of these groups, Babbar Khalsa International. Babbar Khalsa International is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the US and Canada, but the other organisations named in the document are considered legal in both countries
Israel vows to fight for months or more to beat Hamas as hope of ceasefire fade
The UN General Assembly has scheduled an emergency meeting on Tuesday to vote on a draft resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN said it’s similar to the Security Council resolution the US vetoed Friday.
Biden and Congress mull big changes on immigration in budgetary trade-offs with Republicans
Much of the negotiating is taking place in private, but some of the issues under discussion are known: asylum standards, humanitarian parole and fast-track deportation authority, among others.
English Premier League rivals resort to double-team marking but can’t pin down pacey Saka, Martinelli
In Arsenal’s last five games, against Burnley, Brentford, Lens, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Luton Town, they have beaten an opponent playing a back five. Their winning streak of six games is their longest in all competitions in over a year.
Attempts to phase out fossil fuel elicit OPEC pushback at COP28 as Russia, Saudi Arabia fight back
Other countries including India and China have not explicitly endorsed a fossil fuel phase-out at COP28, but have backed a popular call for boosting renewable energy. China’s top climate envoy, Xie Zhenhue, described this year’s climate summit as the hardest in his career.
No ceasefire: Israel pummels Gaza after US veto derails Security Council efforts to halt war
Israel holds the Hamas militants responsible for civilian casualties, accusing them of using civilians as human shields, and says it has made considerable efforts with evacuation orders to get civilians out of harm’s way. It says 97 Israeli soldiers have died in the ground offensive after Hamas raided southern Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 240 hostage.
Sleeping giant: Rethinking science, technology in Africa in light of knowledge integration
Blame compartmentalisation of knowledge, specialisation, over-specialisation and engagement of science and technology for disintegration of knowledge for glorification and actualisation of a few at the expense of the whole society. In the process, intellectual capital and complexity has been eroded in favour of scholasticism, academicism and simplicity.
Activists stage rare UAE politics protest at COP28 climate summit to demand release of pro-democracy prisoners
Unlike at past UN climate talks that sparked huge protest rallies, including 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow and 2015’s COP21 in Paris, there have been no demonstrations outside the venue.
