22-02-2023 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, announcing new strategic systems had been put on combat duty and warning that Moscow could resume nuclear tests. Speaking nearly a year to the day since …

22-02-2023 TEHRAN: The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry described the Iran International TV channel’s decision to relocate its studio operations from the UK to the US as a puppetry that reveals collaboration among the intelligence services of several countries. In an interview with Tasnim on Tuesday, Nasser Kanaani described …

22-02-2023 BEIJING: Beijing is “deeply concerned” about the year-old conflict in Ukraine, which appeared to be “intensifying and even getting out of control”, China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday. Beijing initiated a “no limits” partnership with Moscow shortly before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February and has avoided …

22-02-2023 SEOUL: A South Korean court has for the first time recognized the rights of a same-sex couple in the country. In a landmark ruling, the Seoul High Court found a government health insurer did owe coverage to the spouse of a customer after the firm withdrew it when it …

22-02-2023 COLONIA MEZQUITAL: It had taken hours to cross the border from Honduras to Guatemala by bus, and Edwin Gomez, a 39-year-old migrant from Honduras’s capital, needed a place to rest for the night. That’s how he found himself with Friar German Tax, walking slowly through Colonia Mezquital, a community …

22-02-2023 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has expressed “deep concern and dismay” over Israel’s settlement activity in a watered-down statement replacing a draft resolution that would have explicitly condemned Israeli policies. The UNSC presidential statement approved on Monday by all 15 members of the council, including the …

22-02-2023 NEW DELHI: Broken corroded wires, improper welding and changes to the walking surface of a 145-year-old hanging bridge in India contributed to its collapse last year that killed 135 people, an investigation has found. The colonial-era suspension bridge in Morbi town in the western state of Gujarat was packed …

22-02-2023 DHAKA: The only newspaper of Bangladesh’s main opposition party has halted printing after a government suspension order was upheld by a watchdog, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. The Dainik Dinkal, a Bengali-language broadsheet, has been a mouthpiece of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for …

22-02-2023 HARARE/ BEATRICE: For most of the last nine years, Admire Munatsi has gotten to his boss’s farmhouse in Beatrice, 65km (40 miles) south of Harare, at dawn, to begin a range of tasks from cleaning the chicken run and pigsty to washing cars. By 7am, he joins his workmates …

22-02-2023 MANILA: Philippine rescue teams began climbing an active volcano Tuesday in a “very risky operation” to reach the wreckage of a small plane that crashed at the weekend, officials said. Four people, including two Australians, were on board the Cessna 340 aircraft when it went missing Saturday morning after …