10-08-2023 ROME: As many as 41 people are reported to have lost their lives after a migrant ship with a total of 45 people including three children sank off Lampedusa Island in Italy Wednesday, according to the rescuers. The boat departed from Sfax in Tunisia and sank within hours while …

10-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies CANBERRA: Pentagon officials said Wednesday that Canberra could provide Washington with a ground to launch testing for its hypersonic and other long-range precision weapons under a trilateral agreement among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (AUKUS) according to a media report. US Secretary …

09-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MANIPUR: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to face a heated debate over silence on the deadly violence in the remote state of Manipur, during the ongoing session in the Lok Sabha today (Tuesday), local media reported. Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi initiated …

09-08-2023 SEOL: More than 1,000 buses have begun ferrying scouts at an international event in South Korea out of a campsite due to an incoming tropical storm. Helicopters and police cars were escorting the buses from the disaster-hit jamboree. The threat of the storm comes just days after hundreds at …

09-08-2023 BRASILIA/ BELEM: This week, delegates arriving in Belem’s international airport are being welcomed with a lively “Boi de mascara” folkloric dance routine. In fact, the whole city is celebrating being in the spotlight, playing host to the Amazon Summit. It also feels like a bit of a warm-up for …

09-08-2023 NEW YORK: An American Judge dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation counterclaim against the writer E. Jean Carroll, handing a fresh legal defeat to the former president as he seeks another White House term. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said Carroll’s statements, made on CNN the day after she …

09-08-2023 KYIV/JEDDAH: As the recently-held Jeddah talks regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict concluded in Saudi Arabia, a senior Ukrainian official termed the meeting a “huge blow” to Moscow, adding that the participants of the talks have agreed to conduct another round of political advisers within around six weeks. Except for Russia, …

08-08-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s membership in Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s bicameral parliament was restored Monday, local media reported, after remaining away from the parliament for four months. The development came after Indian Supreme Court suspended the two-year sentence of …

08-08-2023 ISTANBUL: At least 10 people have been injured when an explosion rocked grain silos near the port of Derince in western Turkey, prompting an investigation into its cause, according to Kocaeli Governor Seddar Yavuz. An explosion occurred approximately 2:40pm (11:40 GMT) near Turkish Grain Board (TMO) silos, Yavuz said …

08-08-2023 NIAMEY: Niger closed its airspace due to the “threat of intervention” as the junta defied West African bloc ECOWAS’s deadline to reinstate the democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum, and now faces possible military action. ECOWAS, a week ago, issued an ultimatum, demanding the generals relinquish power by midnight Sunday …