26-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BEIJING: India and China have agreed to de-escalate tensions along their disputed border after a conversation between its leaders, a senior Indian official said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping spoke on the sidelines of the Brics summit in South Africa …

26-08-2023 WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department has initiated legal proceedings against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, for discriminatory hiring practices against asylum seekers and refugees. The lawsuit asserts that SpaceX, during the period spanning from September 2018 to May 2022, consistently discouraged individuals seeking asylum and refugees from applying for job positions. …

26-08-2023 DHAKA/ ROHINGYA: Sounds of gunfire keep Modina Khatun awake every night in Cox’s Bazaar Bangladesh, the world’s largest refugee camp. She fears that spiraling gang violence there will make a widow of another Rohingya woman like herself, with young children to feed. Khatun’s husband, Bashir Ullah, became a grim …

26-08-2023 ATHENS: Greece has called out “arsonist scum” after police made 79 arson arrests over wildfires ravaging the country. Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said there had been several attempts by arsonists to start new fires on Mount Parnitha, north-west of Athens. The blaze is one of hundreds in the …

26-08-2023 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is considering a Chinese bid to build a nuclear power plant in the kingdom amid frustration over the United States’ stipulations for supporting Riyadh’s quest for nuclear power, the Wall Street Journal has reported. China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), a state-owned firm, has proposed the construction …

26-08-2023 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA:  Donald Trump turned himself over to Georgia authorities and then unexpectedly returned to X (previously known as Twitter), which had been his preferred social media platform when he was president. Trump arrived at Fulton County Jail to turn himself in ahead of the deadline issued to …

25-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies MELBOURNE: A former principal who sexually abused two sisters at an Australian ultra-Orthodox Jewish school and spent years fighting extradition from Israel has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Malka Leifer, 56, must serve at least 11 years and six months of the sentence …

25-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: A landslide in north Indian mountains has destroyed several buildings, the latest in a string of disasters in the Himalayas that have killed scores of people. No one was hurt in Thursday’s landslide in the Kullu region of Himachal Pradesh state as residents …

25-08-2023 MOSCOW: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner who staged a short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in June, was on board a plane that crashed northwest of Moscow on Wednesday, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said. “An investigation has been launched into the crash of …

25-08-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korean space vehicle failed to fulfil the leader Kim Jong-un’s space ambitions once again as the rocket carrying another spy satellite could not make it to Earth’s orbit same as before, after the vehicle encountered issues on its third stage which Pyongyang space agency claims is not …