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MALMO: Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested in the Swedish port city of Malmo on Thursday against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest competition. Protesters waving green, white, black and red Palestinian flags packed the historic Stortorget square near Malmo’s 16th-century town hall before a planned march through the city for a rally in a park several miles (kilometers) from the Eurovision venue. Police estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 people took part. Among those in the…

ABUJA: Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrived in Nigeria on Friday to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick service members and veterans, among them Nigerian soldiers fighting a 14-year war against Islamic extremists. The couple, visiting the West African nation for the first time on the invitation of its military, arrived in the capital, Abuja, early in the morning, according to defense spokesman Brig. Gen. Tukur Gusau. Harry and Meghan will be meeting with…

Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber (nee Baldwin) are expecting their first child together and have renewed their vows. The couple announced the news on their respective Instagram pages with corresponding posts. Both begin with a short, romantic video clip of the couple kissing. Hailey Bieber is draped in white lace; baby bump prominent in the sheer, form-fitting fabric. It is followed up with a photo shoot of Justin Bieber photographing his wife. In each caption, they’ve tagged one another. A representative for Hailey…

CAIRO: Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed US President Joe Biden's threat to withhold weapons from Israel if it assaults the southern Gaza city. A senior Israeli official said that the latest round of indirect negotiations in Cairo to halt hostilities in Gaza had ended and Israel would proceed with its operation in Rafah and other parts of the Gaza Strip as planned. Israel has submitted to mediators its reservations about a Hamas proposal for a hostage…

PANAMA CITY: Ramon Fonseca, who co-founded the now defunct law firm linked to the Panama Papers scandal, died overnight in hospital, his lawyer said on Thursday morning. "He had been hospitalized since the start of April," Fonseca's lawyer Guillermina McDonald said in a phone call to a news agency, without saying for what Fonseca was being treated. He did not share details about the funeral arrangements. "Because of this he was not able to attend the hearing," McDonald said, referring to a court proceeding that took…

AMSTERDAM: Pro-Palestinian protesters were occupying a University of Amsterdam (UvA) site on Wednesday, a day after police clashed with protesters in the Dutch capital and broke up an earlier encampment at the university. Police said the UvA had not asked them to stop the protest, contrary to early on Tuesday when riot police used a bulldozer to knock down barricades at UvA and detained 169 people at a different campus. UvA said in a statement just after midnight that it would like to find a solution with the students…

WASHINGTON: TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance sued in US federal court seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used or ban it. The companies filed their lawsuit in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, arguing that the law violates the US Constitution on a number of grounds including running afoul of First Amendment free speech protections.  The law, signed by Biden on April 24, gives ByteDance until January 19 to…

BRUSSELS: The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said. Each month since June 2023 has ranked as the planet's hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin. Including April, the world's average temperature was the highest on record for a 12-month period - 1.61 degrees Celsius…

TORONTO: A security guard was seriously wounded in a shooting at Canadian rapper Drake's Toronto mansion early on Tuesday, police said, without confirming whether the five-time Grammy award winner was at home during the incident. Police said the shooting happened around 2 a.m. (0600 GMT) and officers responding to the incident found a man with a gunshot wound who was taken to a hospital. A suspected shooter was spotted and the individual fled in a vehicle. Speaking to reporters in front of Drake's home in Toronto's…

KYIV: The Kremlin said it had no comment on Ukrainian assertions that Kyiv caught Russian agents plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but said that it was hardly likely to be accurate information. Ukraine's state security service said on Tuesday it caught two agents for Russia who planned to kill President Zelenskiy and other top officials as "a gift" for Russian President Vladimir Putin as he was sworn in for a new term. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had no comment on the assertion…

SYDNEY: Australia said it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student recruitment practices, as part of efforts to rein in record migration. From Friday, international students must show proof of savings of at least A$29,710 ($19,576) to get their visa, the second increase in about seven months. It was raised to A$24,505 from A$21,041 in October. The moves follow a raft of actions in recent months to tighten the student visa rules as…

TORONTO: Three men accused of murdering Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in a killing that triggered a diplomatic crisis between Canada and India appeared briefly in a British Columbia courtroom on Tuesday. Karanpreet Singh, 28, Kamalpreet Singh, 22 and Karan Brar, 22, all Indian nationals, face charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The three appeared via video link wearing orange prison uniforms. Nijjar, 45, was shot dead in June outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a Vancouver…