GENEVA: Up to 20 people are feared dead after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, local reports said yesterday, reports AFP. The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a collectors item, belongs to JU-Air, a company with links to the Swiss air force,…

JERUSALEM: Israel’s new Jewish nation-state law has drawn tens of thousands of protesters out onto the streets, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

PESHAWAR: A collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker killed at least 18 people and wounded 25 others in northwestern Pakistan, police said yesterday, reports AFP. The bus was heading to the southern port city of Karachi with about 48 passengers when it collided with the truck near the city…

WASHINGTON: After Donald Trump sniped back at LeBron James’ suggestion that he fuels American racial divides, support has flooded in for the NBA…

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is making “some arrangement” with Indonesia to take ownership of a luxury yacht linked to a multi-billion dollar financial scandal, a government spokesman said yesterday, reports AFP. The Cayman Islands-registered Equanimity, believed to be worth some $250 million,…

HARARE: When Robert Mugabe’s brutal rule finally came to an end, millions in Zimbabwe dreamed of a brighter future—but many fear his freshly elected former ally Emmerson Mnangagwa will simply offer more of the same, reports AFP. In a Harare store specialising in decorative copper products,…