11-05-2023 BEIJING: “One thousand days is a shockingly long time in detention,” says Nick Coyle. He is speaking about his partner, Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who remains in a Chinese prison. The details of the charges against her are still a secret and she has not been sentenced. Like Ms …

11-05-2023 JERUSALEM: Jewish groups have condemned the multi-million dollar sale of jewels belonging to a billionaire whose husband made his fortune in Nazi Germany. Heidi Horten was an Austrian heiress whose German husband, Helmut Horten, had been a Nazi party member. He took over Jewish firms as their owners left …

11-05-2023 OTTAWA: Canada “will not be intimidated” by China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said, after the Chinese government said it is expelling a Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move linked to allegations Beijing sought to intimidate a Canadian legislator and his family. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trudeau said …

11-05-2023 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell subsidiaries over a 2011 offshore oil spill. On December 20, 2011, an estimated 40,000 barrels of crude oil leaked when a tanker was loaded at Shell’s …

11-05-2023 NAIROBI: Investigators have revealed to the court that 21 bodies found in the latest exhumation have missing organs. They are expecting more bodies to be found in the coming days. It has also raised doubts that there may be forced removal of the organs from the bodies reportedly linked …

11-05-2023 PARIS: The French parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to formally label Russia’s mercenary Wagner force a “terror group” as reports emerged that the United Kingdom also appears poised to designate the group a “terror organization”. The resolution on Tuesday, which is non-binding and largely …

11-05-2023 NEW YORK: A federal jury in New York reached a significant verdict on Tuesday, holding former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and forcibly touching writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, as well as defaming her last year by accusing her of fabricating the incident. The jury …

11-05-2023 ISTANBUL: A nondescript apartment in Istanbul’s business district is the nerve centre of a drive to propel more women into Turkish politics. But with some 60 million voters due to cast their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, the mood at the office of Ben Secerim, or …

11-05-2023 GAZA: At least one Palestinian has been killed in Israeli air attacks that pounded the Gaza for a second straight day, according to the Palestinian ministry of health in the Strip. Local media reported on Wednesday that at least one other Palestinian was wounded. The air raids struck multiple …

11-05-2023 WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden and congressional leaders engaged in urgent talks on Tuesday to address the deadlock over raising the US debt limit, which is a staggering $31.4 trillion. Failure to reach an agreement could lead to an unprecedented default within three weeks, posing severe consequences for the country. …