World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
US heir Fergie Chambers told Spain’s National Court his transfers abroad funded a Tunisian football club and Gaza aid, as the prosecutor backed sending him to face US money-laundering and riot charges.
Karnataka’s D.K. Shivakumar says the Cauvery dam is his state’s right; Tamil Nadu’s Congress chief says his party will never allow it, as Stalin presses for an all-party meeting.
Ali al-Zaidi sent all suspects to the courts after a government committee said it had confirmed smuggling and illegal refineries in the Kataib Hezbollah-held district south of Baghdad.
Descendants of Samuel Fischer say the painting may have been sold under duress as the Nazis rose to power. Sotheby’s says its research has not shown that.
Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Rubio’s remark that Iranians “have to eat eventually” was an admission of war crimes, as Washington leans on its blockade instead of new strikes.
The 19-year-old scored 211 points with her women’s empowerment anthem, ahead of Thailand’s MANG x DAOU and Vietnam’s Tóc Tiên, in the 11-country final in Bangkok.
The interior ministry counted 106,000 marchers, the lowest in weeks, as the fifth Saturday of protests targeted a bill giving police a presumption of self-defence.
The report’s authors say it was reviewed by 44 experts, after the Saudi-led Arab Group questioned its rigour in closed-door talks on the summit’s main decision.
Indian viewers are sharing clips and holding watch parties for the ARY Digital serial, whose patient hero, played by Sheheryar Munawar, has been called television’s “greenest flag”.
Rosatom’s chief says 180 employees are on site and the number will rise to 300, as Moscow restores work it scaled back after US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
