15-01-2024 OTTAWA/ TORONTO: The Canadian government is aiming to reduce the intake of international students in the country in the near future. “It’s really a system that has gotten out of control,” Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller said, as he indicated capping the volume of international students …

15-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India does not plan to import wheat and its farmers are likely to harvest a bumper crop that will boost stockpiles in the world’s second-biggest producer of the staple, the trade minister said on Saturday. “Ground reports indicate that the crop is quite …

15-01-2024 MOGADISHU/ ADDIS ABABA: A senior adviser to Somalia’s president has said his country is prepared for a war with Ethiopia to prevent recognition of Somaliland’s statehood and the building of a naval base in the breakaway territory, The Guardian reported on Saturday. On Jan. 1, Ethiopia signed a memorandum …

15-01-2024 LONDON: The British government yesterday published a summary of its legal advice, which said its decision to strike Houthi military targets in Yemen was justified under international law. “The UK is permitted under international law to use force in such circumstances where acting in self-defence is the only feasible …

15-01-2024 SANA’A/ DUBAI: Tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered in several cities on Friday to hear their leaders condemn US and British strikes on their country in response to attacks by Houthi militants on Red Sea shipping. The US and Britain carried out dozens of air strikes on Houthi military …

15-01-2024 ISTANBUL: Turkey carried out air strikes in northern Syria and Iraq, hitting 25 Kurdish militant targets, the Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The operations were conducted in northern Syria and Metina, Hakurk and Qandil regions of northern Iraq at 9 p.m. (1800 GMT), the ministry …

15-01-2024 WASHINGTON: A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a US law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark US Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights. US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of Republican former President …

14-01-2024 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: Pro-Palestinian protests around the world from Johannesburg to Washington, DC call for an end to the genocide. An overnight Israeli army attack on a house in Rafah killed 14 Palestinians, including a two-year-old girl. Israeli bulldozers enter Jenin in the occupied West Bank, local sources …

14-01-2024 NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India said on Saturday it had lodged a protest over a senior British diplomat’s visit to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, saying the trip this week had infringed on India’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”. Kashmir is claimed in full, but controlled only in part, by nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, …

14-01-2024 WASHINGTON/ ADEN: The Houthi militia threatened a “strong and effective response” after the United States carried out another strike in Yemen overnight, further ratcheting up tensions as Washington vowed to protect shipping from attacks by the Iran-aligned movement. The strikes have added to concerns about the escalation of a …