24-09-2023 LONDON: The Cants of Colchester, one of the UK’s oldest rose farms, will be closing its doors for good at the end of this month, located on the old A134 between Colchester and Great Horkesley. The family-run rose-growing store which was established in 1765, has over 250 years of …

23-09-2023 WASHINGTON/ VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLOMBIA: The White House has affirmed its unwavering support for Canada as allegations surfaced suggesting Indian involvement in the murder of Canadian Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver earlier this year. In a recent press briefing, Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, categorically rejected …

23-09-2023 OTTAWA/ NEW DELHI/ NEW YORK: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has reiterated that there are “credible reasons” to believe that Indian agents may have been behind the murder of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. He first made the allegation on Monday, which India has strongly rejected, calling them “absurd”. …

23-09-2023 REMPANG: Eighty-year-old Halimah was born in Sembulang on the island of Rempang in Indonesia’s Riau Island province and spends her days pottering around the sleepy fishing district, cooking fresh seafood for her grandchildren and enjoying her retirement. It is important to her that she dies there, too. “I want …

23-09-2023 DHAKA/ BRUSSELS: The European Union will not deploy a full election observer team to Bangladesh, citing a lack of “necessary conditions”, prompting the opposition to declare that the polls would not be fair. Bangladesh is set to hold its general election by the first week of January, and several …

23-09-2023 UNITED NATIONS: Sudan’s army chief warned the United Nations that months of war in his country could spill over into the region, and he called for international pressure to be placed on the paramilitary forces he is fighting, including their designation as “terrorists”. Army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, speaking …

23-09-2023 MANILA: Manila is exploring legal options against China over its alleged destruction of coral reefs within the Philippines’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the disputed South China Sea. Manila has accused Beijing of causing environmental damage at Iroquois Reef in the Spratly Islands and is currently assessing the extent …

23-09-2023 NEW YORK: After being disallowed from hearing additional cases on the grounds of “mental fitness” by a group of her peers, the oldest federal judge currently serving in the nation has clapped back with a federal lawsuit. Judge Pauline Newman, 96, appointed in 1985 by then-US president Ronald Reagan, …

22-09-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: New Delhi has suspended the visa services for Canadian nationals indefinitely amid heightened tensions between the two countries. There was confusion for a brief period on Thursday afternoon after the ticker on BLS International Website of the Indian Mission in Canada was briefly …

22-09-2023 TRIPOLI: Last week, Storm Daniel pounded Libya, wreaking havoc on the eastern city of Derna, where two neglected, ageing dams gave way upstream, unleashing an estimated 30 million cubic metres (8 billion gallons) of water, and obliterating entire neighborhoods of the city, home to around 100,000 people but there …