Beirut: Rescuers resumed a search Friday for possible survivors under rubble in Beirut, buoyed by faint hopes of a miracle a month after a monster blast ripped through the city’s port.
Dubai: Bahrain will allow “all flights coming to and departing from the United Arab Emirates” to cross through the island kingdom’s airspace — a statement apparently allowing Israeli flights after neighbouring Saudi Arabia issued a similar announcement.
Beijing: An American newspaper says one of its journalists was detained and then expelled from China’s Inner Mongolia region while covering tensions over a new policy that reduces the use of the Mongolian language in education.
Lahore: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Vice President Maryam Nawaz and 300 workers of her party were booked on Friday under terrorism charges for allegedly attacking law enforcers and hooliganism.
Hong Kong: Seven human rights experts affiliated with the UN raised concerns over Hong Kong’s national security law in a letter addressed to Chinese authorities, saying that the law infringed on certain fundamental rights. In a letter released on Friday, the experts said that the national security law raised a “serious risk” that fundamental freedoms, such as the freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, may be infringed upon.
Brussels: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday condemned the “appalling assassination attempt” on Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and called on Moscow to answer questions about the poisoning to international investigators. Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow on Aug 20 and was taken to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk.