06-02-2023 KYIV: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the situation on the eastern front line was getting tougher, with Russia throwing more and more troops into battle to break down Ukrainian defences. Zelenskyy’s comments on Saturday came as shelling continued in the eastern Donetsk region while an accident at …

06-02-2023 JERUSALEM/ MOSCOW: Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he received a promise from Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will not kill his Ukrainian counterpart. Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the early days of Russia’s 11-month war with Ukraine, becoming one of the few leaders to …

06-02-2023 LONDON: A UK family will publicly apologies to the people of the Caribbean island of Grenada, where its ancestors had more than 1,000 slaves in the 19th Century. The aristocratic Trevelyan family, who owned six sugar plantations in Grenada, will also pay reparations. BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan, a family …

06-02-2023 WORCESTER/ MASSACHUSETTS: A dangerous combination of record-setting cold temperatures and powerful winds buffeted the northeastern United States on Saturday, creating life-threatening conditions and causing the death of an infant in Massachusetts. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington overnight recorded a wind chill, a measure of how the combined effect of air …

06-02-2023 TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader has pardoned or allowed a reduction in jail sentences for “tens of thousands” of prisoners including some arrested in recent anti-government protests. The pardons approved on Sunday by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came with conditions, according to details announced in state media reports, which said the …

05-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report DUBAI/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistani former President Pervez Musharraf has died at a hospital in Dubai after a prolonged illness, military sources confirmed to media on Sunday. He was 79. Musharraf, a four-star general, ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade after seizing power in a …

05-02-2023 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: A US research firm’s allegations of fraud against billionaire Gautam Adani’s Business Empire have sparked a political row in India. Opposition leaders stalled the functioning of parliament for a second straight day on Friday as they demanded an investigation into the claims. The research firm …

05-02-2023 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has banned Wikipedia after threatening the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia over what it has labelled “sacrilegious content”, the Wikimedia Foundation announced on Saturday. Social media giants Facebook and YouTube have also been blocked in the past by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority over …

05-02-2023 OTTAWA: A “generational” Arctic blast brought dangerously cold temperatures to swaths of the northeastern United States and Canada on Saturday, with forecasters warning that frostbite could occur in just five minutes. Atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire state, the wind-chill factor reached -78 degrees Celsius (-108 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, …

05-02-2023 KUALA LUMPUR: A senior Malaysian official said on Friday that Islamophobia must be recognized as a crime and demanded that Muslim nations respond strongly to cases involving the desecration of the Holy Quran. “Anything that is Islamophobic can actually be regarded as something which is criminal in nature. So, …