06-03-2023 SANTA MONICA: Everything Everywhere All at Once swept the Independent Spirit Awards Saturday, taking home wins in nearly every major category and solidifying its Oscar frontrunner status. The kinetic, multiverse-spanning, family opus won numerous awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Editing. Comedian Hasan Minhaj hosted the star-studded …

06-03-2023 BEIJING: Xi Jinping is set to deepen his control of China’s government and economy, as lawmakers meet in Beijing to pass far-reaching reforms. The National People’s Congress (NPC), a rubber-stamp parliament, will confirm Xi’s third term as president, and the appointments of his top team. They will also name …

05-03-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India may issue an alert on cough syrup exported by Marion Biotech, whose products have been linked to deaths in Uzbekistan after tests showed many of the company’s drug samples contained toxins, a drug inspector said on Saturday. Indian police on Friday arrested three Marion …

05-03-2023 JERUSALEM: Protesters have taken to the streets of Israeli cities for the ninth straight week to reject a government plan to overhaul the country’s court system. Tens of thousands took part in Saturday night’s demonstrations in Tel Aviv and other locations which continued peacefully, unlike protests earlier this week …

05-03-2023 PYONGYANG: North Korea has called on the United Nations to demand an immediate halt to joint military drills by the United States and South Korea. In a statement on state media on Sunday, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong said the drills and the rhetoric from the allies have …

05-03-2023 WASHINGTON: Marianne Williamson, a self-help author, activist and spiritual advisor, announced Saturday that she is a candidate for the US presidency in 2024, four years after an earlier run for the office drew little support. Now 70, the iconoclastic author has become the first Democrat to officially enter the …

05-03-2023 LARISSA: Demonstrators held more rallies on Saturday to protest the causes of Greece’s worst-ever train disaster, as the first of the crash victims were laid to rest. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the country since Tuesday’s collision between a passenger train and a freight train, …

05-03-2023 TEHRAN: Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls across five provinces were hospitalized Saturday in a new wave of suspected poisoning attacks, local media reported. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported over the past three months among schoolgirls mainly in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, with …

05-03-2023 WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden, 80, had a cancerous skin lesion successfully removed from his chest in February, his doctor said Friday. The lesion, detected during a routine medical examination, was a basal cell carcinoma, which “do not tend to ‘spread’ or metastasize,” Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in …

05-03-2023 TUNIS: Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labour union rallied in the capital on Saturday in what appeared to be the biggest protest yet against President Kais Saied, staging a show of strength after his recent crackdown on opponents. Many thousands of protesters filled Habib Bourguiba Avenue, the main street in central …