13-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Leaders of India’s main political parties have been campaigning extensively in the southern state of Karnataka which goes to the polls on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led an intense campaign, addressing 17 public rallies and five roadshows in 10 days, to …

13-05-2023 LOS ANGELES: A YouTuber pilot who bailed out midair and deliberately sent his plane crashing into the ground to bolster viewing numbers on his channel could be jailed for up to 20 years. In a video seen by nearly three million people and titled “I crashed my airplane,” Trevor …

13-05-2023 HAWAII: Astronomers have identified the largest cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ago. While the astronomers offered on Friday what they think is the most likely explanation for the …

13-05-2023 WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump is appealing a New York jury’s verdict awarding $5m to a magazine columnist after the jurors concluded Trump had sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her last October. A notice of appeal was filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, the …

13-05-2023 YEREVAN/ BAKU: Renewed border clashes have erupted between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, according to Yerevan, a day after deadly fighting threatened to derail European Union-led weekend peace talks between the Caucasus arch-foes. Baku and Yerevan are locked in a decades-long territorial dispute over Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh, over …

13-05-2023 ADDIS ABABA: Six months have passed since a cessation of hostilities agreement was reached to end the two-year war in northern Ethiopia. The deal, signed by the Ethiopian government and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) under the auspices of the African Union, should be lauded for establishing a framework …

13-05-2023 ISTANBUL: The campaign leading up to Turkey’s elections this weekend has been marred by outbreaks of violence across the country. Incidents of stone-throwing, physical attacks on election workers and gunmen shooting up party offices have all been recorded in recent weeks as Turkey heads towards knife-edge polls in which …

13-05-2023 GAZA CITY: Toqa al-Dalo cries relentlessly in a state of shock after hearing about the death of her best friend in Israel’s first air attack on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. As the 10-year-old got ready for school that morning, she saw her parents crying quietly. They had received …

13-05-2023 PARIS/ TEHRAN: Bernard Phelan, who also holds Irish nationality, and Benjamin Briere were freed from their prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad and are “on their way to France”, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said. There had been grave concerns about the health of both men, both of whom …

13-05-2023 KHARTUM: South Sudan is still recovering from years of a ruinous civil war, but now trouble next door risks fueling another descent into turmoil. Analysts said the fighting between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) could upend the shaky peace process in neighboring …